figure
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- noun
- /ˈfɪɡjər/
- I'm just going to read you a few figures from these texts.
- figures show
- official figures
- census figures
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Watch on YouTubeI'm just going to read you a few figures from these texts.
- I'm just going to read you a few figures from these texts.
- And so people were offering seven figures plus for this, for the rights.
- Again, just to put our figures in some context.
- So let's talk about which figures are significant and which are not.
- But it's not some of the craziest figures, you know, we've seen for Tesla.
- So if you're that woman making six figures, good for you.
- Well, they had, but their, their figures were not very good.
- He got that six figure job, you know what I'm saying?
- Yeah, going to seven figures is great.
- And the Express came back with a six figure sum, but they couldn't do the advertising.
- But we have with sided we could call them figures, incongruence between them.
Examples
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Lou Schwartz called me back and gave me a lot of figures.
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And so people were offering seven figures plus for this, for the rights.
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Your own figures show a 17% increase in gun crime in the last 12 months.
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But either way, we'll get our GDP figures next week.
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Speaker, will the Prime Minister correct the record on crime figures and apologise?
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Selected community college revenue figures for the years 1999-2009 are shown in Table 1.
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Figures released this month put their annual income for last year at 180,000,000 pounds, 32,000,000 more than Manchester United.
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The sales team reported an impressive figure of $500,000 in revenue for the quarter.
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The final figure for the project's budget came to $2 million.
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After calculating the expenses, the total figure was lower than expected.
Synonyms
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1.0
A symbol or word that shows how many items there are
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1.0
One of the symbols zero to nine used to write numbers
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3.4
A word or symbol that shows a number
Idioms
Compounds
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3.5
A person who is well known to many people, for example a celebrity or politician
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3.9
A man who gives care and guidance like a father to someone who is not his child
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2.6
A very simple drawing of a person using a circle for the head and lines for body, arms and legs
- Specialized
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7.7
A number that shows how well a device or material works compared to others
- Specialized
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4.9
A digit that shows how exact a number is and begins with the first digit that is not zero
- Archaic
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9.8
A model of the human body with movable joints that artists use to set and study poses
- Specialized
1
9.9
A carved statue, often a head or animal, placed on a square pillar to mark a boundary
- Specialized
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3.9
A flat shape like a square or circle with length and width but no depth
- Specialized
A knot tied near the rope end that stops it slipping through a hole and looks like the number eight
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Etymology
Figure comes from the Latin figura which means 'shape' or 'form', because written numbers are just shaped signs. That's why figure can mean a number or an amount.