Regard vs Figure - What's the difference?
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A steady look, a gaze.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 750:
One's concern for another; esteem.
* 1842 , Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review , page 144:
* 1903 , Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report , page 186:
* 1989 , Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life , Cambridge University Press, page 399:
(obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
To look at; to observe.
To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
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(archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
* Shakespeare
To face toward.
* Sandys
* John Evelyn
To have to do with, to concern.
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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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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.
As verbs the difference between regard and figure
is that regard is (obsolete) to set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect while figure is .As a noun regard
is a steady look, a gaze.As an adjective figure is
figurative.regard
English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) reguard, reguarde, from early (etyl) regard, from , from (etyl) reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard'', ''reward .Noun
(en noun)- He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard , and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
- This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking[...].
- We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard [...].
- These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard .
Derived terms
* disregard * in regard * regardableEtymology 2
From (etyl) regarder, from (etyl) reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.Verb
(en verb)- There was a Judge in a certaine cite, which feared not god nether regarded man.
- She regarded us warily.
- I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
- He regards honesty as a duty.
- Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
- His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.
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- If much you note him, / You offend him; feed, and regard him not.
- It is a peninsula, which regardeth the main land.
- that exceedingly beautiful seat of my Lord Pembroke, on the ascent of a hill, flanked with wood, and regarding the river
- That argument does not regard the question.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* regarder * regardless * self-regardingStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----figure
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(wikipedia figure)Noun
(en noun)- a figure''' in bronze; a '''figure cut in marble
- a coin that bears the figure of an angel
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- 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.
