figure
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(noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures" |
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Related Words: figure eight, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, spread eagle |
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(verb) understand (informal); "He didn't figure her" |
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Related Words: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, savvy |
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(verb) be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?" |
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Synonyms: enter |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) a representation of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus" |
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Related Words: Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse, dummy, figurehead, figurine, marionette, model, puppet, simulation, snowman, statuette |
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(noun) the impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure" |
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Related Words: effect, impression |
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(noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground |
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Related Words: percept, perception, perceptual experience |
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Antonyms: ground |
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(noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2" |
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Synonyms: fig |
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Related Words: illustration |
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(noun) an amount of money expressed numerically; "a figure of $17 was suggested" |
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Related Words: amount, amount of money, sum, sum of money |
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(noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape |
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Related Words: form, plane figure, shape, solid figure, subfigure, three-dimensional figure, two-dimensional figure |
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(noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" |
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Synonyms: number |
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Related Words: amount, bulk, countlessness, fewness, innumerableness, majority, minority, multiplicity, numerosity, numerousness, preponderance, prevalence |
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(noun) a well-known person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France" |
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Synonyms: name |
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Related Words: important person, influential person, personage |
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(noun) a digit from 0 to 9 in decimal notation |
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Synonyms: decimal digit |
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Related Words: digit |
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(noun) a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors" |
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Synonyms: design, pattern |
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Related Words: bear claw, damascene, decal, decalcomania, decoration, device, emblem, linocut, marking, motif, ornament, ornamentation, polka dot, screen saver, tattoo, weave |
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(noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
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Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
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Related Words: exaggeration, hyperbole, irony, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, rhetorical device, simile, synecdoche, zeugma |
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(verb) judge to be probable |
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Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
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Related Words: allow, judge, take into account |
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(verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation |
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Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon |
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Related Words: add, add together, approximate, average, average out, budget, capitalize, deduct, differentiate, divide, estimate, extract, extrapolate, factor, factor in, factor out, fraction, gauge, guess, integrate, interpolate, judge, miscalculate, multiply, process, prorate, reason, recalculate, resolve, solve, subtract, survey, take off |
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(verb) imagine; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen" |
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Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualize |
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Related Words: conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine |
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(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" |
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Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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Related Words: adult body, body, female body, juvenile body, male body, organic structure, person, physical structure |
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