Lay Figure

  

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Lay Figure

Definition: Lay Figure

Lay Figure

Noun

1. Dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body.

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



Specialty Definitions: Lay Figure

DomainDefinitions

Personal Care & Hotels

Life-size representation of the human body, used to display articles of clothing, headgear, stockings, gloves, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translations: Lay Figure

Language Translations for "lay figure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

person i parëndësishëm (lightweight), model anatomik. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏رسم تشكيلي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

манекен (dummy, layman-figure, manikin, mannequin, model), безличен човек. (various references)

   

Danish

  

vinduesmannequin (display model, window model), mannequinfigur (display model, window model). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ledepop (display model, window model). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mallinukke (dummy). (various references)

   

French

  

mannequin d'étalage, mannequin. (various references)

   

German

  

Schaufensterpuppe (display dummy, display model, mannequin, window model). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κούκλα βιτρίνας (display model, dummy, window model), ανδρείκελο βιτρίνας (display model, window model). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

próbababa (manikin, mannequin, paris doll, stand-in). (various references)

   

Italian

  

manichino da vetrina (display model, window model), manichino (dummy, manikin). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aylay igurefay

   

Portuguese

  

manequim (display model, dummy, manikin, manner, parish, window model). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

манекен (dummy, layman-figure, manikin, mannequin, model, paris doll, tailor's block). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

maniqui (display model, window model). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

leddocka, modedocka (fashion plate), marionett (creature, marionette, puppet). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

model (archetype, copybook, design, exemplar, fashion plate, form, guide, manikin, mannequin, model, norm, pattern, poser, sample, shape, sitter, specimen, standard, stencil, type, type specimen, version, vintage), gerçek dışı karakter, önemsiz kimse (cipher, featherweight, lightweight, negligible quantity, nonentity, non-starter, peanut, small beer, small change, snip). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người không giá trị, bù nhìn nhân vật hư cấu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lay Figure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-r-u-y"

-2 letters: failure, figural, fragile, gulfier, refugia.

-3 letters: aerify, aerily, argufy, argyle, earful, fairly, ferial, ferula, figure, flayer, fleury, frugal, glaire, glairy, gluier, ireful, ligure, reguli, rifely, uglier, uglify.

-4 letters: afire, agile, agley, argil, argle, argue, ariel, auger, aurei, early, faery, fairy, farle, feral, feria, ferly, feuar, fiery, filar, filer, flair, flare, flier, flyer, frail, fugal, fugle, gaily, gayer, girly, glair, glare, glary, gluer, gluey, grail, grief, gruel, guile, gular, gulfy, gyral, lager, large, layer, leafy, leary, lifer, liger, luger, refly, regal, reify, relay, rifle, riley, riyal, rugae, rugal, uraei, ureal, urial, yager.

-5 letters: aery, ager, agly, ague, airy, alef, alif, aril, aryl, earl, egal, eyra, fail, fair, fare, farl, feal, fear, fiar, fila, file, fire, flag, flay, flea, fley, flue, frae, frag, fray, frig, frug, fuel, furl, fury, gale, gaur, gear, girl, gley, glia, glue, gray, grey, grue, guar, gulf, gyre, gyri, iglu, ilea, lair, lari, leaf, lear, liar, lief, lier, lieu, life, lira, lire, luge, lure, lyre, rage, ragi, rail, rale, real, reif, rely, rial, riel, rife, rile, ruga, rule, ruly, ugly, urea, urge, yagi, yare, year, yuga, yule.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-r-u-y"
 

+3 letters: figuratively, requalifying.

 

+4 letters: centrifugally, disgracefully, prequalifying, unfalteringly.

 

+5 letters: unflatteringly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lay Figure


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 79      46 69 67 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000110 01101001 01100111 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#121 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#103 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0079      0046 0069 0067 0075 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667912407573878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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