Definition of figure

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Figure (n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure..

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Plaster :: Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer..
Whole-length :: Whole-length (a.) Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue.
Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..
Image :: Image (v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure..
Pomey :: Pomey (n.) A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color..
Circle :: Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center..
Figurine :: Figurine (n.) A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc..
Uglify :: Uglify (v. t.) To disfigure; to make ugly.
Amblygon :: Amblygon (n.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle..
Pattern :: Pattern (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
Lash :: Lash (n.) In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure..
Reduplication :: Reduplication (n.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
Line :: Line (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline..
Statuminate :: Statuette (n.) A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine..
Character :: Character (n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol..
Decahedron :: Decahedron (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
Isoperimetrical :: Isoperimetrical (a.) Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies..
Heterosis :: Heterosis (n.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: What is life to such as me?.
Cipher :: Cipher (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter..
Hendecagon :: Hendecagon (n.) A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles.
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