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Figurine vs Figural - What's the difference?

figurine | figural |

As a noun figurine

is a small carved or molded figure; a statuette.

As an adjective figural is

representing by means of a figure; emblematic.

figurine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.

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    figural

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 185:
    • The counterparts, in the Christian era, to the figural anticipation of Christ in the Old Testament were the deliverer monarchs and leaders of later times [...].
  • Figurative, not literal.
  • (mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.
  • (rare) Pertaining to (human) figures.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 262-3:
    • Some of the Umayyads found themselves charmed by the cultures which they had conquered, so that archaeologists in Palestine and Syria have revealed an astonishing flourishing of Christian-style figural art under their rule.
  • (music) Figurate.
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