Figure vs Device - What's the difference?
figure | device | Synonyms |
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.
* Shakespeare
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
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* Dryden
* 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.
* Francis Bacon
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A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
A dance figure, a complex dance move(w).
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, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
A figure of speech.
* Macaulay
(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.
* Prior
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
* Dryden
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
* Shakespeare
(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
(music) To embellish.
Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
* 1949 . Geneva Convention on Road Traffic
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A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
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* 1827 Hallam, Henry, , Harper
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(rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device .
(senseid)(heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
* 1736 . O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York .
(archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
* 1824 . Landor, Walter Savage "King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage" from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen , page 44
* 1976 . The Eagles, "Hotel California"
(legal) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
(printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
* 1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic] , USGPO, Washington, p1:
(obsolete) A spectacle or show.
(obsolete) Opinion; decision.
Figure is a synonym of device.
As an adjective figure
is figurative.As a verb figure
is .As a noun device is
any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.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
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures .}}
- 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
- (Johnson)
- (Grove)
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.
Derived terms
* go figure * prefigure * figure out (US)Statistics
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell [...]
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
- The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
- Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device , weighty, and exceeding costly
- And she said,
- "We are all prisoners here,
- Of our own device "
- Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. [...] To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)