Figure

Definition: Figure

Figure

Noun

1. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2".

2. Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".

3. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers; "0 and 1 are digits".

4. A model of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus".

5. A well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music".

6. A combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape.

7. An amount of money expressed numerically; "a figure of $17 was suggested".

8. The impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure".

9. The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand".

10. : language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

11. : a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground.

12. : a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors".

13. : a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures".

Verb

1. Judge to be probable.

2. Be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?".

3. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy".

4. Make a mathematical calculation or computation.

5. Understand (informal); "He didn't figure her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "figure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Figure

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; (outline); structure; plasmature.

Indication

Type, figure, emblem, cipher, device; representation; epigraph, motto, posy.

Metaphor

Phrase; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy, synecdoche; autonomasia, irony, figurativeness; Adjective: image, imagery; metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.

Number

Noun: number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series.

Ostentation

Cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge; figure, figure away; make a show, make a display; glitter.

Price

Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a.

Representation

Verb: represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness; Noun: hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold.

Copy; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme.

Repute

Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with.

Be distinguished; Adjective: shine; (light); shine forth, figure; cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash.

Ugliness

Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum".

Crosswords: Figure

French (countenance, diagram, face, feature, figure, figures, image, picture, picture card, representation, shape).

Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston)

Why of course not. Why, with your looks and your figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden and Adolph Green.)

Karl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

You're just gonna have to figure that out for yourself (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

You ever figure out what Lisa's chairs were and buy them (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego)

I will be your father figure (Father Figure; performing artist: George Michael)

Trying to figure out this life (I'm With You; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Just try to figure out what all this is for (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Some people figure they can never win (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel)

A little mystery to figure out (Something To Talk About; performing artist: Bonnie Raitt)

Figure Skating (1964)

Have Figure Will Travel (1963)

Figure de proue (1948)

How to Figure Income Tax (1938)

His Military Figure (1917)

Father Figure (performing artist: George Michael)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cartooning the Head and Figure (reference)

• Drawing the Head and Figure (reference)

• The Figure in the Shadows (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Action Figure News & Toy Review (reference)

• Form & Figure (reference)

• Otc Point & Figure Update (reference)

• Tomarts Action Figure Digest (reference)

• Uk Point And Figure Library - Monthly Ed (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The 2002 Olympic Winter Games - Figure Skating Exhibition (reference)

• Sculpting the Figure in Plaster (reference)

• Spectator's video guide to Figure Skating (reference)

• 1994 Winter Olympics: Figure Skating (reference)

• My So-Called Life: "Father Figure," "The Zit" (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Figure Skating's Greatest Hits (reference)

• Double Figure (reference)

• Figure 8 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge with Todd McFarlane Action Figure (reference)

• Michelle Kwan Figure Skating (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PET scans at the level of the basal ganglia of a normal control (1) case 1 at the start (2) and after treatment with AZT (3). In (1) there is a homogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism in the frontal, temporal and occipital cortex and in the subcortical grey matter. At the onset of treatment with AZT (2) there is a heterogeneous pattern of glucose metabolism with a relative reduction in the posterior temporal and occipital regions and the thalamus. Thirteen weeks after treatment with AZT, the abnormal pattern has partly resolved (3). All images are scaled from zero to 100% of the maximum activity within the slice (scale shown on right of figure). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is an illustration of a figure of woman. One breast has multiple placements of iridium implants or "seeds" as a type of radiation therapy to treat for breast cancer. (see artwork BC-23, BC-08). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

In the early 1950s there were more than 20,000 cases of polio each year. After the polio vaccination was introduced in 1955 that figure dropped to about 3,000 per year by 1960. Credit: CDC.

Wild animals accounted for 93% of reported animal cases of rabies in the year 2000, with foxes comprising 6.1% of this figure. Credit: CDC.

Crossing a railway embankment on the Salt Lake City Base Using the Eimbeck base bar apparatus Figure No. 8, Appendix No. 12 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 774. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Beginning the measurement of the Salt Lake City Base Perhaps last use of Eimbeck base bar apparatus Figure No. 7, Appendix No. 12 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 774. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figures 1-4, Oculina varicosa Leseuer. Figure 5, Oculina implicata, Ag. ms. Figure 6, Oculina arbuscula, Ag. ms. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate I. These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 58. Albert sounder. The idea of Cardinal Cusanus, mentioned in the previous figure, was re-examined by the Italian architect Leo Battista Alberti and subsequentlydescribed by Giuseppe Biancani in 1635. The design was even simpler than Puhler's device. A simple rule of three was devised to derive the depth from the travel time to the bottom and return of the float. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 60. Joe Soundings sounder. This device was described in nautical magazine in 1832 by an individual with the pen name "Joe Soundings." It used a counter incremented by a propeller to measure the distance to the bottom. It is similar to the Massey sounder and Massey is sometimes cited as the inventor. There is no information concerning testing or use of this instrument. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

TIROS I satellite on test stand during preliminary test stage. In: "Weather Analysis from Satellite Observations, " U.S. Navy Research Facility, December 1960. Figure 1.4. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech. (reference)

On the expiration of a period of two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty the stocks of ammunition for these guns shall be reduced to and maintained at a maximum figure of fifteen hundred rounds per piece for calibres of 4.1-inch and under, and five hundred rounds per piece for higher calibres. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

As we passed the head of the lane that led down to the beach, I noticed a single figure moving slowly along it, seawards

This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice

A tall figure appeared silhouetted in the hatchway

The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale

Jean Valjean was in the shadow with the iron drill in his hand, erect, motionless, terrified, at this radiant figure.

A figure came up the staircase from the hall

As he drew near a figure moved from the shadow of the truck and came toward him.

Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so surprising, and so astonishing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Figure 2.--Side view of female pelvis. (references)

Figure 2 lists the most common causes of constipation. (references)

Figure 1.--Front view of bladder and sphincter muscles. (references)

Business

The above figure shows two different scenarios. (references)

Including VAT, the figure reached USD 4.7 billion. (references)

Most IP telephony companies agree with this figure. (references)

Children

Peru

In rural areas, this figure increases to 55 percent. (references)

El Salvador

The ISPM reported 139 cases of sexual abuse through November 30, a decrease from the 2000 figure of 292. A majority of the victims were female. (references)

India

However, a survey conducted in 1999 by the NCPEDP indicated that in the public sector the figure was 0.54 percent and in the private sector 0.28 percent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Azerbaijan

Another small paper, Etimad, also was closed for insulting a public religious figure. (references)

Togo

On October 13, the Gendarmerie arrested journalist Komi Nemvame Klu for publishing "false information" about a public figure. (references)

Belarus

The SCRNA claims that 26 religious denominations are registered officially; however, the significance of this figure is uncertain. (references)

Economic History

India

Published figure not available. (references)

El Salvador

At present, this figure is approximately USD 25,000. (references)

Pakistan

By March 2001, the base had reached a figure of 12.0 million. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

The BHC believes this figure generally remained valid during the year. (references)

Lithuania

The prisoner figure included 1,811 detainees, of whom 126 were women, and 170 were juveniles. (references)

Iran

The group that reported the figure believes that most or all of those who disappeared were killed. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

The 1994 census, the most recent, stated that 42.8 percent of the population is indigenous; however, most observers believe that this figure is low and that indigenous people constitute a majority of the population. (references)

Minorities

Russia

Anti-Semitic themes continued to figure in some local publications around the country, unchallenged by local authorities. (references)

South Africa

Surveys indicated that approximately two-thirds of Muslims supported PAGAD soon after its inception, but that figure has dropped significantly since. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

Annualizing this figure, we expect Oman have a fiscal surplus at the end of 2001 of around $60.75 million. (references)

Guatemala

Approximately 83 percent of the population lives in poverty; this figure rises to 90 percent among the indigenous. (references)

Burma

Narcotics proceeds dominate the local economies of the Kokang, Wa, Shan, Kachin, and Mon ethnic areas and figure prominently in the Burmese economy as a whole. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

The 9.26 million census figure for Karachi, revised to 9.8 million in a February 2000 report, is estimated to be 3 to 5 million short of the actual figure. (references)

Nigeria

These votes may have added an estimated 15 percent to Obasanjo's total figure; however, observers believe that even if they were thrown out, he still would have maintained roughly a 15 percent lead over Falae's total. (references)

Swaziland

Election officials reported that approximately 200,000 of the 400,000 eligible citizens registered for the parliamentary elections, and that approximately 120,000 citizens voted, although critics questioned that figure. (references)

Trade

Australia

GST, at a rate of 10 percent, is then calculated against that figure. (references)

Peru

By mid-2001 the figure had fallen to about 9% and was expected to continue falling as the economy recovered. (references)

Spain

These banks have a total of more than 17,000 branch offices, although downsizing processes in some institutions are reducing this figure. (references)

Travel

Ghana

It is illegal to pay anything less than this figure to any employee. (references)

Romania

Special customs do not figure significantly in business dealings in Romania; Western business standards apply. (references)

Women

Finland

Shelter officials state that the figure represents less than half of the number of actual incidents. (references)

Worker Rights

China

NGO's maintain that this figure is inaccurately high. (references)

Colombia

In the municipality of Orito, the figure reached 70 percent. (references)

Argentina

Local NGO's note that the figure is imprecise and could be as high as 10 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Figure

Expressions using "figure": a figure ♦ Academy figure ♦ authority figure ♦ background figure ♦ ballpark figure ♦ base figure ♦ base of a geometrical figure ♦ be a figure of fun ♦ blister figure ♦ callout figure ♦ central figure ♦ code figure ♦ Concurring figure ♦ confidence figure ♦ cult figure ♦ curly figure ♦ cut a brilliant figure ♦ cut a figure ♦ cut a figure in society ♦ cut a figure with ♦ cut a poor figure ♦ famous figure ♦ father figure ♦ female figure skater ♦ fetch a high figure ♦ fiddleback figure ♦ Figure caster ♦ figure eight ♦ Figure flinger ♦ Figure flinging ♦ figure in ♦ figure loom ♦ figure of eight ♦ figure of eight test ♦ figure of fun ♦ figure of speech ♦ figure on ♦ figure out ♦ figure out at ♦ Figure painting ♦ figure shift ♦ figure skate ♦ figure skater ♦ figure skating ♦ figure space ♦ figure stone ♦ figure to oneself ♦ figure up ♦ Figure weaving ♦ figure work ♦ full figure ♦ go figure ♦ good figure ♦ guiding figure ♦ huge figure ♦ ideal figure ♦ important figure ♦ Inferior figure ♦ joke figure ♦ keep one's figure ♦ key figure ♦ lay figure ♦ leading figure ♦ literary figure ♦ main figure ♦ maximum elevation figure ♦ misshapen figure ♦ mother figure ♦ mottle figure ♦ ordinate figure ♦ person of figure ♦ plane figure ♦ plaster figure ♦ political figure ♦ poor figure ♦ prime figure ♦ projected figure ♦ prominent figure ♦ public figure ♦ Purkinje figure ♦ residual figure ♦ ribbon figure ♦ roe figure ♦ salt figure ♦ see figure 1 ♦ significant figure ♦ solid figure ♦ stick figure ♦ stripe figure ♦ superior figure ♦ terminal figure ♦ three figure ♦ To cut a figure ♦ To figure out ♦ To figure up ♦ watch one's figure ♦ wavy figure ♦ wax figure. Additional references.

Beginning with "figure": figure-carving, figure-conscious, figure-decoration, figure-drawing, figure-eight, figure-eights, figure-forming, figure-frieze, figure-ground, figure-head, figure-heads, figure-hugging, figure-length, figure-moulded, figure-of-eight, Figure-of-eight knot, figure-of-eight-female-body-screwing, figure-scene, figure-scenes, figure-sculpture, figure-shuffling, figure-skimming, figure-stained, figure-style, figure-subjects, figure-typically, figure-work, figure-zone, figure-zones.

Ending with "figure": black-figure, double-figure, four-figure, mother-figure, red-figure, seven-figure, single-figure, six-figure, three-figure.

Afrikaans

syfer (cipher, digit, numeral), bereken (account, calculate, charge, count, work out), beeld (diagram, image, metaphor, picture, representation, statue). (various references)

Albanian

figurë (character, figure of speech, illustration, image, personage, personality, piece, step), figurë zbukurimi, figuroj, formë (appearance, cast, figuration, form, format, frame, make, matrix, mode, Mold, mould, shape, state), numër (blighter, intake, issue, number, numeral, rate, size, tally), ilustrim (illumination, illustration), ilustroj (document, illustrate, limn), llogaris (account, allow, calculate, cast, compute, count, determine, figure on, find, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), llogarit (account, allow, calculate, count, determine, figure on, number, numerate, reckon, score, weigh up), çmim (charge, cost, damage, estimate, honor, honour, kudos, premium, price, prise, prize, prize money, purchase, rate, recompense, reward, value), model (cast, classic, classical, copybook, example, exemplar, fashion, make, model, Mold, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, pilot, sample, sampler, shape, style, type), tregoj me figura, përfytyroj (conceive, depicture, dream, dream up, envision, fancy, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, imagine, picture, realize, visualize), paraqes me figura, paraqitje (adduction, demonstration, designation, display, face, guise, introduction, likeness, make, manifestation, portrayal, preferment, presence, presentation, production, profile, recommendation, representation, showing, smartness, statement, submission), personalitet (character, individuality, persona, personage, personality, self-hood), personifikim (embodiment, incarnation, personation, personification), shifër (cipher, code, cypher, digit, numeral), siluetë (silhouette), skicë (cartoon, chart, dash, delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, freehand, outline, plan, profile, rough, sketch), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سلسلة حركات في الرقص, ‏شخصية (being, character, individuality, persona, personage, personality, spirit), ‏شكل بشري, ‏شكل البنية, ‏شكل خارجي, ‏شكل هندسي, ‏رقم (number, page, punctuate), ‏رمز (allegory, attribute, character, code, denote, designate, emblem, ensign, icon, image, indication, sign, stand for, symbol, symbolize, telltale, token, type, typify), ‏إعتبر (account, adjudge, assume, consider, count, deem, externalize, hold the view, look at, make, number, ponder, rate, reckon, see, set, treat), ‏إستعارة (allegory, image, metaphor), ‏بنية (armature, build, construction, fabric, format, formation, framework, gestalt, make up, organism, structure, substructure, texture), ‏زين (apparel, bedeck, deck, dress, enhance, gem, grace, hang, invest, ornament, paint, pattern, pipe, plate, prettify, prink, smarten, trick, trim, varnish), ‏مزاج (cast of mind, complexion, constitution, disposition, feather, frame, frame of mind, framing, grain, humor, humour, kidney, mettle, mind, mood, nature, spirits, state of mind, temper, temperament, tone, vein), ‏تشبيه (comparison, image, imagery, likening), ‏تخيل (conceive, dream up, envisage, fancy, feature, fiction, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏حسب (calculate, cast, cipher, compute, deem, from, gather, in his element, number, on, pursuant to, rank, reason, reckon, score, tally, tell), ‏قد قوام (stature), ‏قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, destine, determine, dispose, establish, figure out, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), ‏قام بسلسلة حركات, ‏قامة (frame, stature), ‏مظهر (air, appearance, aspect, exhibitory, exterior, face, form, guise, look, manifestation, mien, phase, presentation, semblance, shape, show, showing, visage), ‏مظهر الرجل, ‏مجاز (allegory, corridor, image, imagery, metaphor, passage, path, track, way), ‏عدد (digit, enumerate, grist, list, number, numbering, numeral, recount). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шифрирам, десенирам (pattern), илюстрация (iconography, illustration, instance), изобразявам (depict, depicture, design, embody, feature, image, limn, picture, represent, typify), изчислявам (calculate, evaluate, figure on, figure out, judge, put, rate, reckon, reckon up, total, value, work out), пионка (pawn, tool), преценявам (adjudge, appraise, assess, estimate, gauge, judge, measure, price, put, rate, weigh, weigh up), пресмятам (calculate, compute, figure out, figure up, reckon, tally, tot up, value, work, work out), личност (individuality, party, person, personality), мисля (deliberate, guess, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, ween, weigh), метафора (image, metaphor), мотив (grounds, inducement, motif, motive, pattern, spring, subject, tune), десен (forehand, forehanded, off, pattern, right, right hand, right handed, rightward), означавам с цифри, съм (be, exist, go, keep, lie, run), телосложение (frame, habit, make, physique), тяло (body, bulk, corps, flesh, form, frame, person, personage, umbrella), фигурирам, фигура (effigy, face card, form, man, person, physique, piece, tracery), цифра (character, cipher, digit, number, numeral), чертая (construct, delineate, describe, draw, line, plan, plot, protract), човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, guy, head, homo, human, human being, individual, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, piece, subject, thing, type, Wight, you), рисувам (depict, design, draw, image, limn, paint, picture, sketch), смятам (adjudge, calculate, cipher, consider, count, deem, feel, find, guess, judge, number, opine, reckon, regard, see, set down, take, ween, work), участвувам (assist, join in, partake, participate, share, sit in on), сума (amount, count, heaps of, number, power, quantum, sum, tot, total), образ (effigy, face, form, guise, idol, image, likeness, obverse, picture, representation, semblance, similitude, simulacrum, type, visage). (various references)

Chinese 

人物 (characters, someone who plays a part), 人士 (person, public figure), 數字 (amount, digit, digital, number, numeral), 數 (frequently, number, repeatedly, several, to calculate, to count), 揣 (estimate, guess, put into, surmise), 形象 (form, image), 外形 (shape), 图 (Chart, Diagram, figures). (various references)

Czech

figura (dummy, posture), vzorec (formula), tvar (fashion, form, mould, shape), suma (amount, purse, stim, sum), postava (build, frame, person, personage, shape, stature), osobnost (celebrity, personage, personality), obrazec, cifra (digit), cena (award, charge, cost, costs, merit, premium, price, prize, purse, quotation, rate, tariff, valuation, value, worth, worthiness), èíslo (card, cough drop, issue, item, number, screw), èíslice (cipher, digit, number, numeral), èástka (amount, sum). (various references)

Danish

figur (diagram, image, picture, representation), beregne (account, calculate, count, work out). (various references)

Dutch

rekenen (account, calculate, count, demand, postulate, require, work out), figuur (character, diagram, image, picture, representation, stature), afbeelding (diagram, image, picture, representation). (various references)

Esperanto

figuro (diagram, image, picture, representation), kalkuli (calculate, count, work out), cifero (cipher, digit, numeral), ciferi. (various references)

Faeroese

tal (amount, cipher, digit, number, numeral). (various references)

Farsi 

پیکر (Effigy, Likeness, Statue), مجسم کردن (Character, Depict, Embody, Epitomize, Image, Incarnate, Portray), نقش (Impress, Infraction, Inscription, Legend, Stamp), کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Suffer, Trace, Trawl, Weigh), حساب کردن (Account, Calculate, Compute, Count, Score, Sum), تصویرکردن (Portrait), عدد (Digit, Head, Number, Piece, Tot), صورت (Aspect, Effigy, Face, Hue, Invoice, List, Medal, Phase, Roll, Roster, Schedule, Shape, Sign, Visage), رقم (Brand, Character, Digit, Item, Number, Sort, Symbol, Type), شمردن (Aim, Count, Enumerate, Include, Number, Rate, Reckon, Repute), شکل (Configuration, Form, Gravure, Hue, Image, Likeness, Medal, Rank, Schema, Shape, Vignette), شخص (Cove, Dude, Guy, Individual, Man, One, Person, Specimen, Subject). (various references)

Finnish

numero (act, cipher, copy, digit, issue, item, number, number plate, numeral, size), kuvio (compartment, drafting, draught, drawing, figuring, pattern, plan, profile, sketch, texture), kuva (image, picture). (various references)

French

figure (figures), compter, chiffre. (various references)

Frisian

figuer (diagram, image, picture, representation), rekkenje (account, calculate, count, settle, square up, work out), besiferje (account, calculate, count, work out), berekkenje (account, calculate, count, work out). (various references)

German

ziffer (character, cipher, clause, digit, number, numeral, rate), gestalt (build, character, diagram, form, frame, guise, image, person, picture, representation, shape, stature), figur (character, diagram, doodle, evolution, form, image, man, physique, picture, piece, representation, routine), zahl (amount, cipher, digit, number, numeral, strength), Bild (character, drawing, frame, illustration, image, metaphor, painting, photo, photograph, picture, picture card, portrait, reflection, scene, sight, tableau, vista), Zeichen (bookmark, character, chars, icon, identification, indication, Mark, marker, notation, omen, portent, punctuation mark, reference, sign, signal, signs, symbol, token), abbildung (depiction, fig, ill, illustration, image, map, mapping, picture, transformation). (various references)

Greek 

εικόνα (icon, illustration, image, picture, poster), αριθμός (number). (various references)

Hebrew 

משכית (image, imagination, mosaic, ornament), מחיר (cost, expense, price, toll, value, wage, wages), מספר (cypher, digit, number, quantity, sum), לחשוב (consider, intend, mean, meditate, reckon, think, think over), לחשבן (calculate), תואר (adjective, appearance, aspect, degree, designation, epithet, shape, title), תבנית (form, format, formation, gestalt, image, mock up, model, mould, pattern, structure, type), אישיות (character, persona, personage, personality, self), דמות (character, form, guise, ikon, image, likeness, model, shape), גזרת גוף (constitution, frame), ציור (design, drawing, painting, picture, portrayal), צורת הדבור, ספרה (cypher, digit, number, numeral). (various references)

Hungarian

számjegy (cipher, digit, numeral), ábra (diagram, graph, graphic, illustration, picture). (various references)

Icelandic

reikna (account, calculate, count, work out). (various references)

Indonesian

sosok (body, buttonhole, eye, form, noose, shape), mengkhayalkan, mengagak-agakkan (guess), gambar (drawing, effigy, illustration, picture). (various references)

Italian

figura (diagram, form, guise, illustration, image, person, picture, representation, shape), cifra (cipher, cypher, digit, monogram, number, numeral), calcolare (account, calculate, compute, count, count in, estimate, include, make, number, put, quote, rate, reason, reckon, reckon up, work out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

数 (number), 形 (form, shape, type). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フィギュア , けいしょう (accession, alarm bell, court nobles and state ministers, fire bell, image, inheritance, minor illness, minor injury, nimble, picturesque scenery, scenic beauty, shape, slight, strong and nimble, succession, title of honour, trifling), けいたい (carrying something, distal style, form, mobile telephone, shape), ようし (adopted child, appearance, blank form, essentials, fundamentals, gist, paper manufactured in the Western manner, premature death, proton, son-in-law, summary), もよう (design, pattern), からだつき (body build), かず (face, lower illustration, number), かたち (form, shape, type), けいよう (description, display, figure of speech, fly, form, hoist, modifying, qualification, stems and leaves, Tokyo and Chiba), したい (body, cadaver, corpse, detached force, form, limbs, members, style, task force), ぞう (bowels, elephant, image, picture, portrait, statue, viscera), ず (at, cord, drawing, illustration, in, on, picture, ridge, strap, tail, thong), ずはん (illustration, plate), ずけい, すう (grass cutting, hay, number, to breathe in, to smoke, to suck), すうじ (a number of times, numeral), すがた (appearance, shape), たいけい (battle formation, compendium, corporal punishment, disposition of troops, farsighted policy, form, grand-scale or long-range plan, great joy, honorific title for someone a little older, jail sentence, older brother, organization, outline, survey, system), たたずまい (appearance, bearing, shape), にんぎょう (doll, puppet). (various references)

Korean 

숫자 (figures, Numeric). (various references)

Manx

jalloo (altarpiece, bust, carving, drawing, effigy, guy, icon, idol, image, joss, painting, picture, sculpture, statue), figgyr (number), earroo (census, census of things, foliation, number). (various references)

Norwegian

framstille, figurere, tall (numerals), skikkelse (form), regne (account, calculate, count, work out), anta (assume, expect). (various references)

Papiamen

figura (diagram, image, picture, representation), rek (account, calculate, count, work out), kalkulá (account, appraise, calculate, count, estimate, rate, work out). (various references)

Pig Latin

igurefay.(various references)

Polish

liczyć (account, calculate, count, work out). (various references)

Portuguese

figura (diagram, face card, form, guest-card, image, picture), imagem (diagram, form, guest-card, idol, image, likeness, mirror, model, niche, picture, portrait, print, representation, resemblance, semblance, simulacrum), número (amount, cipher, copy, digit, installment, instalment, item, number, numeral, quantity, size), ilustração (cut, illustration, scholarship), cifra (aught, cipher, code, cypher, digit, naught, number, numeral, pressmark), calcular (account, appraise, calculate, cast up, cipher, compute, count, cypher, estimate, evaluate, figure out, gage, gauge, log, number, rate, reckon), algarismo (cipher, number, numeral). (various references)

Romanian

fizic (appearance, bodily, body, concrete, corporeal, outer, personal, physical, physique), fãpturã (being, build, creature, form, shape, stature), fi reprezentat în cifre, figura (appear, be present), figurã geometricã, formã (appearance, block, cast, condition, configuration, conformation, conventionality, cut, external, fashion, fig, figuration, form, format, guise, likeness, make, Mold, mould, pattypan, semblance, shape, size, structure), figurã (aspect, chessman, effigy, face, form, image, inset, look, mug, picture card, shape, snout, type, visage), stat (country, height, list, polity, power, remaining, state, stature, stopping), înfãţişare (air, appearance, aspect, behavior, behaviour, cast, countenance, dash, description, face, figuration, form, get, guise, hearing, lay, likeness, look, manner, mien, patina, physiognomy, presentation, representation, semblance, shape, similitude), a-şi închipui (fancy, image, picture to oneself, suppose), a-şi imagina (depicture, fancy, get, imagine, picture to oneself, suppose), apãrea (appear, arise, break, come, come in one's way, come in sight, crop out, dawn, emerge, glimpse, go out, happen, peep, peer, present, rise, show one's face, spring), aritmeticã (arithmetic, number), aspect (appearance, aspect, cast, character, complexion, conformation, facet, form, guise, look, person, phase, physiognomy, shape, similitude), calcula (appreciate, calculate, cipher, compute, consider, count, estimate, rate, reckon, tally, time), cifrã (amount, digit, number, numeral, total), crede (account, accredit, assume, believe, consider, credit, deem, expect, fancy, guess, imagine, put credit in, reckon, seeing is believing, suppose, think), decora cu modele, desena (design, draw, draw out, pencil, picture, profile, sketch, trace), staturã (height, inch, make, stature), siluetã (form, line, silhouette, slimness), ţinutã (attire, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, carriage, clothing, conduct, deportment, gait, garb, hang, manner, mien, posture, rig, set, suit, trim, uniform), socoti (account, believe, calculate, call, cipher out, compute, consider, count, deem, esteem, examine, fancy, feel, find, guess, hold, imagine, judge, make, number, put, rate, reckon, regard, suppose, tally, think, work out), talie (bodice, body, corsage, make, middle, size, stature, waist, waistline), simboliza (emblem, emblematize, represent, symbolize), ilustraţie (illustration, picture), model decorativ, nota cu cifre, personalitate (anybody, individual, individuality, keyman, name, notable, originality, person, personage, personality, self, somebody), preţ (charge, cost, damage, expense, offer, price, purchase, rate, value, wage, worth), reprezenta grafic (plot), schiţa (adumbrate, block in, block out, chalk out, chart, delineate, design, draw, outline, pencil, plan, rough draft, sketch, take a sketch of), se cifra (amount), tablou (aspect, canvas, drawing, engraving, image, lookout, painting, panel, picture, scene, schedule, slab, table, tableau). (various references)

Russian 

считать цифра рисунок, статуя (statuaries, statuary, statue), стан (camp, mill), украшать фигурами, цифра (digit, numeral), форма (build, chill, form, forma, format, gestalt, make, mode, mould, pattern, shape, state, type-form, uniform), фигура (face card, shape), очертание (configuration, contour, cutout, fashion, form, outline, profile, shape, skyline), образ (character, eidolon, fashion, form, image, imagination, imago, picture, reflex, shape, similitude, type), изображение (delineation, depiction, description, effigy, icon, ikon, image, imagery, portrait, portrayal, reflection, reflexion, representation, scenes), изображать (delineate, depict, describe, image, limn, pictured, portray, reflect, render, represent), диаграмма (card, chart, diagram, graph, pattern). (various references)

Scottish

dreach (appearance, aspect, form), dealbh (contrive, delineate, devise, form, image, picture, shape), cruth (form, shape). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

figurirati, figura (piece, shape), procena (appraisal, assessment, estimate, estimation, evaluation, judgment, rating), oblik (fashion, feature, form, shape), lik (character, countenance, face, image, imagery), ličnost (character, individual, person, personality), izračunati (calculate, figure out, integrate, reckon), igrati ulogu, brojka (cipher, number, numeral). (various references)

Spanish

figura (court card, face card, form, frame, shape), cifra (cipher, cypher, digit, number, numeral, quantity), calcular (account, add up, calculate, compute, count, estimate, figure up, make, put, reason, reckon, reckon up, work out), retrato (diagram, effigy, image, likeness, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, profile, representation), reproducción (diagram, image, picture, playback, rendering, replica, representation, reproduction), figurar (rank, think, think up), computar (account, calculate, compute, count, put, reckon, reckon up, work out). (various references)

Swedish

siffra (character, cipher, digit, numeral), gestalt (character, configuration, diagram, form, guise, image, likeness, personage, picture, representation, shape), figur (character, diagram, image, person, personage, picture, representation, shape), bild (depiction, effigy, frame, image, photo, pic, picture, reflection), beräkna (account, allow, appraise, calculate, calculating, charge, compute, count, estimate, gauge, project, rate, reckon, take into account, work out). (various references)

Thai

เป็นส่วนสำคัญ, บุคลิกภาพ, บุคคลสำคัญ (lion), การใช้อุปมาอุปมัย, ตัวเลข (number, numeral), รูปร่าง (bod), รูปภาพ (image), คิดคำนวน, จินตนาการ (conceit, envisage, fancy, feature, imagination, imagine, see). (various references)

Turkish

fiyat (cost, price, terms), figür, vücut yapısı (anatomy, body build, build, physique), şahıs (individual, natural person, party, person), şahsiyet (individuality, it, personage, personality, somebody, someone), şekil (contour, face, form, image, modality, morpho-, mould, semblance, shape, turn, wise), şekillendirmek (develop, form, formalize, give form, give shape, shape, stamp out), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, consult, contemplate, deliberate, envision, excogitate, fancy, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of), desen, desenlemek, ifade etmek (amount, be enunciative of, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, denote, describe, emit, enounce, express, frame, give voice to, import, mean, purport, reflect, represent, sign, signify, state, utter, voice, word), anlamı olmak (make sense), tasvir etmek (delineate, depict, describe, portray), yer almak (be in the swim, be out of the swim, fall into, fall within, precondition, put in an appearance, rank among, rank as, rank with, take a pew), insan tasviri, rakam (number, numeral), resim (drawing, dues, effigy, illustration, image, likeness, painting, photo, pictorial, picture, tablature, tableau, tax), resmetmek (depict, draw, limn, paint, picture, picturize), rol oynamak (act, act a part, enter into), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), sayı (basket, button, cage, conversion, count, goal, issue, number, numeral, numerary, point, quantity, score), endam (shape, stature). (various references)

Turkmen 

syrat (appearance), sifrlemek (count). (various references)

Ukrainian

уявляти собі (envisage, envision, ideate, imagine, prefigure, realize, see), цифра (cipher, cypher, digit, number, numeral, numeric), фігурувати, фігура (character, nob), зображати (character, characterize, delineate, depict, describe, feature, represent), персона (nob, persona), діаграма (chart, delineation, diagram, graph). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật điển hình, chói lọi gây cảm tưởng xoàng. (various references)

Welsh

ffigur (type), gosgedd (form). (various references)

typos. (various references)

calculare, facies, figura, figurae, figuram, figuras, forma, formae, formam, formellas, instar, plasma, plasmatis, plasmatum, schema, typus. (various references)

spectre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "figure": figured, figurehead, figureheads, figurer, figurers, figures. (additional references)

Words ending with "figure": configure, disfigure, outfigure, prefigure, reconfigure, refigure, transfigure. (additional references)

Words containing "figure": configured, configures, disfigured, disfigurement, disfigurements, disfigures, outfigured, outfigures, prefigured, prefigurement, prefigurements, prefigures, reconfigured, reconfigures, refigured, refigures, transfigured, transfigures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Figure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cigourel, fague, Faigele, Feigele, Feuge, fibure, figere, figgure, figie, figr, figre, Figtree, figu, figue, figuer, figura, figute, Fingari, finguer, fingure, foure, fugure, Sigur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: grief.

-2 letters: fire, frig, frug, grue, reif, rife, urge.

-3 letters: erg, fer, feu, fie, fig, fir, fug, fur, gie, ire, ref, reg, rei, rif, rig, rue, rug.

-4 letters: ef, er, if, re.

+1 letter: figured, figurer, figures, firebug, fuggier, gulfier, gunfire, refugia.

+2 letters: argufied, argufier, argufies, dirgeful, feruling, figurate, figurers, figurine, firebugs, fireplug, fruitage, gruffier, gunfires, refigure, refuging, refugium, refusing, refuting, uglifier.

+3 letters: argufiers, buffering, configure, disfigure, featuring, febrifuge, ferruling, figurines, fireguard, fireplugs, frugivore, fruitages, fulgurite, fullering, gruffiest, lifeguard, outfigure, perfuming, perfusing, prefigure, rebuffing, refigured, refigures, refluxing, refueling, refunding, suffering, uglifiers, unfreeing, vermifuge.