Usually means: Representation of form or shape.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. figure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. figure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. figure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. figure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. figure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Figure, figure: Wordnik
  7. figure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. figure: Wiktionary
  9. figure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. figure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. figure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. figure: Dictionary.com
  13. figure (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. figure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Figure (horse), Figure (music), Figure (musician), Figure (wood), Figure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Figure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. figure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. figure: Rhymezone
  19. figure, figure (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. figure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FIGURE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Figure, Figure: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. figure: Free Dictionary
  24. figure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. figure: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. figure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. figure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. figure: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. Figure: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  5. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  6. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  8. Figure: Marquetry Glossary
  9. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. figure: Legal dictionary
  4. Figure: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. figure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FIGURE: Acronym Finder
  3. figure: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. figure, figure, figure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. figure: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Figure: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A drawing or diagram conveying information.
noun:  The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
noun:  A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
noun:  The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
noun:  (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
noun:  A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
noun:  A numeral.
noun:  A number, an amount.
noun:  A shape.
noun:  A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
noun:  Any complex dance moveᵂ.
noun:  A figure of speech.
noun:  (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
noun:  (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
noun:  (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
noun:  (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
verb:  (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
verb:  (chiefly US) To come to understand.
verb:  To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
verb:  (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
verb:  (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
verb:  (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
verb:  (obsolete) 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.
verb:  To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
verb:  (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
verb:  To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
verb:  (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
verb:  (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
verb:  (music) To embellish.

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