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# fig

«fig» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft, sweet fruit with many tiny seeds inside, shaped…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fig, figs); abbreviation (fig. = figure)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soft, sweet fruit with many tiny seeds inside, shaped like a small pear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m1)

2) The tree that this fruit grows on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m2)

3) (Bible) The fig tree appears in many Bible stories; Adam and Eve made clothes from fig leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m3)

4) (abbreviation) «Fig.» is short for «figure», a numbered picture or diagram in a book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m4)

5) (informal, old-fashioned) Something worth nothing: «I don't give a fig». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and textbooks «Fig. 3» means look at picture number 3. In cooking and nature lessons it is a fruit, fresh or dried. In Bible stories Jesus told a parable about a fig tree. Phrases: fig tree, fig leaf, dried figs, see Fig. 2, not care a fig.

### examples

- We ate fresh figs on holiday in Greece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x1)
- The fig tree in the garden gives lots of fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x2)
- Look at Fig. 4 to see the parts of a flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x3)
- In the Bible, Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x4)
- Dried figs are sweet and chewy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x5)
- He doesn't care a fig about football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x6)
- And here are sweet sauce, honey, raisins, green peas, and dry figs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/#x7)

### note

Plural: figs. «Fig.» with a full stop is an abbreviation of «figure» and is read aloud as «figure». A «fig leaf» can also mean something used to hide an embarrassing fact.

### In the corpora

- [a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.254/)
- [And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.270/)
- [He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1894/)
- [Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.795/)
- [The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines in blossom give forth their fragrance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fig» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fig/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.