2. Verb. (third-person singular of figure) ¹
3. Verb. It figures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Figures
1. figure [v] - See also: figure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Figures
Literary usage of Figures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"figures.—See ABBREVIATIONS.' country, fenced and cultivated, would certainly be
called a field. The fact of its lying on the one side or the other side of ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... the fact that the figures which we have quoted, and which are given at p.
ю as expressive of the case when the unarmoured ends give no stability, ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1886)
"The prevalence of animal figures throughout the American Continent must have ...
We have already shown in our articles on symbolism that these figures are ..."
4. Projective Geometry by Linnaeus Wayland Dowling (1917)
"Correlation of Geometric figures.—Any combination of the elements is a ...
Primitive forms, simple figures, and complete figures are thus geometric figuros. ..."