Definition of figure

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Figure (n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble..

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Figure :: Figure (n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
Disfiguration :: Disfiguration (n.) The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement..
Diagram :: Diagram (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan..
Curvilinear :: Curvilinear (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure..
Arithmetic :: Arithmetic (n.) The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures.
Pseudosphere :: Pseudosphere (n.) The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.
Tetrahedron :: Tetrahedron (n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.
Oxymoron :: Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures..
Diallage :: Diallage (n.) A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point..
Syncitia :: Syncrisis (n.) A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.
Aries :: Aries (n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram..
Impress :: Impress (n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence..
Deform :: Deform (v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Dilogy :: Dilogy (n.) An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
Shape :: Shape (n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to..
Dance :: Dance (v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..
Calico :: Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Emblaze :: Emblaze (v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon..
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