Noun

(en noun)

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.

a figure''' in bronze; a '''figure cut in marble

* Shakespeare

a coin that bears the figure of an angel

A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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 .}}

The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.

* Dryden

I made some figure there.

* Blackstone

gentlemen of the best figure in the county

(obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.

* Law

that he may live in figure and indulgence

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

Flowers have all exquisite figures .

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A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.

The muslin was of a pretty figure .

A dance figure, a complex dance move^(w).

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,

A figure of speech.

* Macaulay

to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing

(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.

(Johnson)

(music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

(Grove)

(music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

Noun

(en noun)

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=Lee A. Groat, volume=100, issue=2, page=128, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Gemstones , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}

An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

* 2002 , Pat Conroy, The Great Santini , page 4:

"I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe."

An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

* 1872 , Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal , volume 3, page 116:

Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

(printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

# (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.

# (chiefly, uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

The headline was set in bold type .

(biology) An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group.

Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

(biology) A blood group.

(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.

(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed'' theory). (''Note : this to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)

* Types, theory of. V.N. Grishin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics . URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150

Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type -theoretic systems.

Categorial grammar is like a combination of context-free grammar and types .