Figure vs. Form
Figurenoun
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
Figurenoun
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
Figurenoun
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
Figurenoun
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
Figurenoun
(obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
Figurenoun
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
Figurenoun
A numeral.
Figurenoun
A number.
Figurenoun
A shape.
Figurenoun
A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
Figurenoun
A dance figure, a complex dance moveW.
Figurenoun
A figure of speech.
Figurenoun
(logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Figurenoun
(astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Figurenoun
(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
Figurenoun
(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
Figureverb
To solve a mathematical problem.
Figureverb
To come to understand.
Figureverb
To be reasonable.
Figureverb
(transitive) To enter, be a part of.
Figureverb
(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.
Figureverb
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
Figureverb
(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
Figureverb
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Figureverb
(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
Figureverb
(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
Figureverb
(music) To embellish.
Figurenoun
The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
Figurenoun
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.
Figurenoun
A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
Figurenoun
A diagram or drawing, made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; - called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surfaces; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
Figurenoun
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person; as, a sorry figure.
Figurenoun
Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
Figurenoun
A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
Figurenoun
Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.
Figurenoun
A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
Figurenoun
A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. Also called a figure of speech.
Figurenoun
The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Figurenoun
Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
Figurenoun
A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Figurenoun
Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
Figurenoun
A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical phrase or motive; a florid embellishment.
Figureverb
To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
Figureverb
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
Figureverb
To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
Figureverb
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Figureverb
To prefigure; to foreshow.
Figureverb
To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
Figureverb
To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
Figureverb
To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
Figurenoun
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material;
Figurenoun
alternative names for the body of a human being;
Figurenoun
one of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers;
Figurenoun
a model of a bodily form (especially of a person);
Figurenoun
a well-known or notable person;
Figurenoun
a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
Figurenoun
an amount of money expressed numerically;
Figurenoun
the impression produced by a person;
Figurenoun
the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals;
Figurenoun
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Figurenoun
a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
Figurenoun
a decorative or artistic work;
Figurenoun
a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating;
Figureverb
judge to be probable
Figureverb
be or play a part of or in;
Figureverb
imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;
Figureverb
make a mathematical calculation or computation
Figureverb
understand;
Formnoun
To do with shape.
Formnoun
The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
Formnoun
A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
Formnoun
Characteristics not involving atomic components. en
Formnoun
(dated) A long bench with no back.
Formnoun
(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
Formnoun
(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Formnoun
(social) To do with structure or procedure.
Formnoun
An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
Formnoun
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
Formnoun
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
Formnoun
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
Formnoun
(archaic) A class or rank in society.
Formnoun
(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
Formnoun
A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
Formnoun
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
Formnoun
Level of performance.
Formnoun
(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
Formnoun
The den or home of a hare.
Formnoun
A window or dialogue box.
Formnoun
Essentials
Formnoun
(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
Formnoun
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Formnoun
(geometry) A quantic.
Formnoun
A specific way of performing a movement.
Formverb
(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
Formverb
(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Formverb
(intransitive) To take shape.
Formverb
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
Formverb
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
Formverb
(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Formverb
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Formverb
To provide (a hare) with a form.
Formverb
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
Formnoun
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
Formnoun
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
Formnoun
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
Formnoun
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
Formnoun
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
Formnoun
A shape; an image; a phantom.
Formnoun
That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
Formnoun
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
Formnoun
The seat or bed of a hare.
Formnoun
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
Formnoun
The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.
Formnoun
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
Formnoun
The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
Formnoun
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; - called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
Formnoun
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
Formnoun
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
Formverb
To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
Formverb
To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
Formverb
To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; - said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
Formverb
To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
Formverb
To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
Formverb
To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
Formverb
To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
Formverb
To run to a form, as a hare.
Formnoun
the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;
Formnoun
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Formnoun
a perceptual structure;
Formnoun
any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
Formnoun
alternative names for the body of a human being;
Formnoun
the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;
Formnoun
the visual appearance of something or someone;
Formnoun
(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;
Formnoun
a printed document with spaces in which to write;
Formnoun
(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;
Formnoun
an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;
Formnoun
a particular mode in which something is manifested;
Formnoun
a body of students who are taught together;
Formnoun
an ability to perform well;
Formnoun
a life-size dummy used to display clothes
Formnoun
a mold for setting concrete;
Formverb
to compose or represent:
Formverb
create (as an entity);
Formverb
develop into a distinctive entity;
Formverb
give a shape or form to;
Formverb
make something, usually for a specific function;
Formverb
establish or impress firmly in the mind;
Formverb
give shape to;
