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General (34 matching dictionaries)

figure: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
figure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
figure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
figure: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
figure, figure: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
Figure, figure: Wordnik [home, info]
figure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Wiktionary [home, info]
figure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
figure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
figure: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Dictionary.com [home, info]
figure (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
figure: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
figure: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
Figure (horse), Figure (music), Figure (musician), Figure (wood), Figure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
figure: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
Figure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
figure: Rhymezone [home, info]
figure, figure (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
FIGURE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
Figure, Figure: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
figure: Free Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
figure: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
figure: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
figure: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
figure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art (10 matching dictionaries)

figure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
figure: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names [home, info]
Figure: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info]
Figure: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists [home, info]
figure: The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) [home, info]
Figure: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
figure: Literary Criticism [home, info]
Figure: Marquetry Glossary [home, info]
Figure: Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms [home, info]
figure: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

Figure: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
Figure: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
Figure: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
figure: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Figure: Financial dictionary [home, info]
figure: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

figure: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

figure: online medical dictionary [home, info]
figure: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Figure: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
FIGURE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
figure: Idioms [home, info]

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

figure: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info]
figure: FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

figure: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

figure: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Figure: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]
Figure: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (figure)

▸ noun:  a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating ("She made the best score on compulsory figures")
▸ noun:  a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) ("He made a figure of Santa Claus")
▸ noun:  the impression produced by a person ("He cut a fine figure")
▸ noun:  a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
▸ noun:  a diagram or picture illustrating textual material ("The area covered can be seen from Figure 2")
▸ noun:  an amount of money expressed numerically ("A figure of $17 was suggested")
▸ noun:  a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
▸ noun:  the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals ("The figure was about a thousand")
▸ noun:  a well-known or notable person ("She is an important figure in modern music")
▸ noun:  one of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers
▸ noun:  a decorative or artistic work
▸ noun:  language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
▸ noun:  alternative names for the body of a human being
▸ verb:  be or play a part of or in ("Elections figure prominently in every government program")
▸ verb:  understand ("He didn't figure her")
▸ verb:  judge to be probable
▸ verb:  make a mathematical calculation or computation
▸ verb:  imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

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