figure

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A drawing or diagram conveying information.
2. isim 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”

3. isim A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.

   “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.”

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

   “He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.”

5. isim Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.

   “that he may live in figure and indulgence”

6. isim 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.”

7. isim A numeral.
8. isim 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;”

9. isim A shape.

   “a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure”

10. isim A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.

    “The muslin was of a pretty figure.”

11. isim Any complex dance moveᵂ.

    “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.”

12. isim A figure of speech.

    “to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing”

13. isim The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
14. isim A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

    “its quality, like those of all the rest, is determined by its position in the house of the astrological figure”

15. isim Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

    “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[…]”

16. isim A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
17. fiil To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
18. fiil To come to understand.

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

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

    “1. Gent. Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error, I am sound.”

20. fiil To be reasonable or predictable.

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

21. fiil To enter into; to be a part of.

    “It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.”

22. fiil To represent in a picture or drawing.

    “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. Hooker had previously figured it.”

23. fiil 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.

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

24. fiil To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

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

25. fiil To indicate by numerals.

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

26. fiil To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

    “whose white vestments figure innocence”

27. fiil To prefigure; to foreshow.

    “His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death, And in their ſmoothneſſe, amitie and life:”

28. fiil To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
29. fiil To embellish.