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Figured vs Thought - What's the difference?

figured | thought |

As verbs the difference between figured and thought

is that figured is past tense of figure while thought is past tense of think.

As an adjective figured

is having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.

As a noun thought is

form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.

figured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (figure)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
  • :
  • Adorned with a figure or figures.
  • *
  • *: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.

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    thought

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia thought) (en noun)
  • Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts , and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts .}}
  • (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
  • * (Paul Fix)
    • The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
  • A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

    • Derived terms

    * afterthought * collect one's thoughts * gather one's thoughts * food for thought * on second thoughts * perish the thought * thoughtful * thought leader * thoughtless * thought shower * thoughtlet

    Verb

    (head)
  • (think)