n A drawing or diagram conveying information.
n The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
n A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
n The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
n (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
n A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
n A numeral.
n A number, an amount.
n A shape.
n A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
n Any complex dance moveᵂ.
n A figure of speech.
n (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
n (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
n (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
n (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
v (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
v (chiefly US) To come to understand.
v To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
v (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
v (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
v (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
v (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.
v To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
v (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
v To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
v (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
v (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
v (music) To embellish.