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# figure

«figure» in Mova's school dictionary: **a number written as a sign, like 7 or 25** — 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 (figure, figures); verb (figure, figures, figured, figuring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A figure is a number written as a sign, like 7 or 25. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#m1)

2) A figure is a shape, like a triangle or a square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#m2)

3) A figure is the shape of a person, or a small toy model of a person: an action figure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#m3)

4) A figure in a book is a picture or a diagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#m4)

5) To figure out is to find the answer or to understand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#m5)

6) To figure in a story means to appear or play a part in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

mostly «action figures», toys counted; «figure out» means find the answer; in maths, plane figures are flat shapes; phrases: «figure out», «action figure», «in figures» (written as digits), «see Figure 2»

### examples

- Jerry had 7 action figures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x1)
- He added 2 more figures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x2)
- Can you figure out how many he has now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x3)
- How many more books than figures are on the shelf? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x4)
- Write the number in figures: 25. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x5)
- A square is a figure with four equal sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x6)
- I saw a dark figure in the fog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x7)
- Look at Figure 3 on page 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x8)
- A gigantic pike figures also in the Kalevala. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/figure/#x9)

### note

Countable: a figure, figures. A thing counted (toys). «figure out» carries no clue; it only asks for the answer. Trap: «a six-figure number» has 6 digits.

### In the corpora

- [A bot's friendliness is the same for everyone; "enjoy" is a figure of speech for a bot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/11/)
- [The Gryphon asks «Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/23/)
- ["Full-figured" is a polite way to say a woman is fat or large.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/23/)
- [Theo plans team games with drawings: arrows, circles and a stick figure of himself with a cape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/6/)
- [Only a tiny share of boys who join a football academy young become professionals; the figure often quoted is under 1 in 100.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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