figure – English noun declension

English noun forms of figure

Noun: figure
Singularfigure
Pluralfigures

Sample Sentences

  • 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 returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516 respondents. [2004, Joshua Tree National Park 2004 Visitor Study:]
  • a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
  • a coin that bears the figure of an angel [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
  • Ever since I was a young’n and my dad gave me a Godzilla figure, I’ve been a huge fan of the big green lizard from the Land of the Rising Sun. [2007 December 26, Andy Salisbury, “Unleash the Beast”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 34:]
  • 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, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures. [2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:]
  • He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
  • I made some figure there. [1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • gentlemen of the best figure in the county [1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:]
  • that he may live in figure and indulgence [1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life:]
  • 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. [1919, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health:]
  • She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection. [1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 53:]
  • (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; [1996, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt:]
  • a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure
  • Flowers have all exquisite figures. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
  • And these were not human shapes, or the shapes of anything I recognised as alive in the world, but outlines of fire that traced globes, triangles, crosses, and the luminous bodies of various geometrical figures. [1908, Algernon Blackwood, John Silence, Physician Extraordinary:]
  • The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure. [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
  • The muslin was of a pretty figure.
  • Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • its quality, like those of all the rest, is determined by its position in the house of the astrological figure [1889, Franz Hartmann, The Principles of Astrological Geomancy:]
  • Here, Beethoven limits the syncopations and modifications of rhythm which are so prominent in the first and third movements, and employs a rapid, busy, and most melodious figure in the Violins, which is irresistible in its gay and brilliant effect[…] [1888, George Grove, Beethoven's Nine Symphonies: Analytical Essays:]

Etymology

From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura. See: Middle English Nouns 'figure', Latin Nouns 'figūra', Ancient Greek Nouns 'τεῖχος'.

Verbs referencing "figure"

Finnish Nouns figuuri, Irish Nouns figiúr.