Figured vs Configured - What's the difference?
figured | configured |
(figure)
(lb) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
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Adorned with a figure or figures.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p.446:
*:Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.
(configure)
To set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking
