figure

A drawing or diagram conveying information.

• For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. ... For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors re

The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

• a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble

A person, thing, or action representative of another

• Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger

The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

• He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.

Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.obsolete

• that he may live in figure and indulgence

A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.

• The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.
• She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection.

A numeral.

A number, an amount.

• (i) in the 1966 edition of The Destruction of Dresden Irving contended that 135,000 were estimated authoritatively to have been killed and further contended that the documentation suggested a figure between 100,00 and 250,000;

A shape.

• a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure

A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.

• The muslin was of a pretty figure.

To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.US

To come to understand.US

• I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.

To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.

• We can figure on running a loss this year.

To be reasonable or predictable.USintransitive

• It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.

To enter into; to be a part of.intransitive

• It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
• The exchange rate figures heavily in several other aspects of Venezuela's economy.

To represent in a picture or drawing.transitive

• Although now to be met with in botanic gardens everywhere, there is a certain degree of interest attaching to the figure of it in B.M. 3,992 (1843), although that was by no means the first figure published, for Lambert, Sprengel, and Sir W.

To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.obsolete

• If love, alas! be pain; the pain I bear, / No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

• The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.

To indicate by numerals.obsolete

• 1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

• whose white vestments figure innocence