Diagram or Figure - What's the difference?
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A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
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A graph or chart.
(category theory) A functor from an index category'' to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is ''J'' and the codomain is ''C'', then the diagram is said to be "of type ''J'' in ''C ".
To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
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The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
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A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
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* Blackstone
(obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
* Law
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
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A numeral.
A number.
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A shape.
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A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
A dance figure, a complex dance move(w).
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A figure of speech.
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(logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
(astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
To solve a mathematical problem.
To come to understand.
To be reasonable.
To enter, be a part of.
(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.
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To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
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(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
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To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
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(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
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(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
(music) To embellish.
In transitive terms the difference between diagram and figure
is that diagram is to represent or indicate something using a diagram while figure is to enter, be a part of.diagram
English
(wikipedia diagram)Alternative forms
* diagramme (archaic)Noun
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- Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
Synonyms
* (plan or similar to show relationships or similar) schematicHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* circuit diagram * Ishikawa diagram * logic diagram * (tree diagram) * Venn diagramVerb
figure
English
(wikipedia figure)Noun
(en noun)- a figure''' in bronze; a '''figure cut in marble
- a coin that bears the figure of an angel
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- He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
- I made some figure there.
- gentlemen of the best figure in the county
- that he may live in figure and indulgence
- Flowers have all exquisite figures .
- The muslin was of a pretty figure .
- to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing
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Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun) * academy figure * action figure * authority figure * big figure * dark figure * cut a figure * father figure * figure dash * figure eight * figurehead * figureless * figure loom * figure of eight * figure of merit * figure of speech * figure poem * figure skating * four-figure * hate figure * hourglass figure * lay figure * Lissajous figure * mother figure * musical figure * plane figure * public figure * significant figure * snow figure * stick figure * terminal figure * text figure * three-figure * two-figureVerb
(mainly US)- I can't figure if he's telling the truth or lying.
- If love, alas! be pain I bear, / No thought can figure , and no tongue declare.
- The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
- As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
- whose white vestments figure innocence
- In this the heaven figures some event.