Figure noun A number. Number noun Poetic metres; verses, rhymes. Figure noun A shape. Number noun countable A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show. Figure noun A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
Number noun A person. Figure noun A dance figure, a complex dance move W. Number noun An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one. Figure noun A figure of speech. Number noun A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer. Figure noun logic The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Number noun dated An issue of a periodical publication. Figure noun astrology A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. Number verb transitive To label items with numbers; to assign numbers to items.
Figure noun music Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. Number verb intransitive To total or count; to amount to. Figure noun music A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment. Number noun That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
Figure verb To solve a mathematical problem. Number noun A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. Figure verb To come to understand. Number noun A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door. Figure verb To be reasonable. Number noun Numerousness; multitude. Figure verb transitive To enter, be a part of. Number noun The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
Figure 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. Number noun Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
Figure verb To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. Number noun That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; - chiefly used in the plural. Figure verb obsolete To indicate by numerals. Number noun The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two , expressed usually by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
Figure verb To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Number noun The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value. Figure verb obsolete To prefigure; to foreshow. Number verb To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
Figure verb music To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. Number verb To reckon as one of a collection or multitude. Figure verb music To embellish. Number verb To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.
Figure noun The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Number verb To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. Figure noun The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc. Figure noun A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
Figure noun 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. Figure noun The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person; as, a sorry figure. Figure noun Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
Figure noun A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc. Figure noun Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. Figure noun A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. Figure noun 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.
Figure noun The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. Figure noun Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer. Figure noun A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. Figure noun Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
Figure noun A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical phrase or motive; a florid embellishment. You're using a select subset of many definitions for figure, number, and digit. Improve this answer. Davo Davo 4, 2 2 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges.
Thanks, edited. A figure can also be a number or amount, for example in this dialogue: We will need to pay them off. Sometimes digit and figure can be used interchangeably. In computer parlance, each of those figures is referred to as a digit. Weather Vane Weather Vane Featured on Meta.
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Read more comments. There are 3 words that are very similar in meaning. A digit is usually a single number. Example: 1, 2, 3, etc. A number can be a single number like a digit , or multiple numbers. It can also have different symbols and such.
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