Figured
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
figured
adj 1: (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; "my dress
is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
patterned \patterned\ adj.
Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
[Narrower terms: {banded}, {blotched, blotchy, splotched},
{brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby}, {burled}, {checked,
checkered}, {dappled, mottled}, {dotted, flecked, specked,
speckled, stippled}, {figured}, {floral, flowered}, {laced},
{marbled, marbleized}, {moire, watered}, {pinstriped,
pinstripe(prenominal)}, {slashed, streaked}, {spotted},
{sprigged}, {streaked, streaky}, {striped, stripy},
{tessellated}, {veined, venose}] {plain, solid}
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Figured}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Figuring}.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See
{Figure}, n.]
1. To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an
image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into
a determinate form; to shape.
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If love, alas! be pain I bear,
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No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.
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2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
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The vaulty top of heaven
Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. --Shak.
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3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
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As through a crystal glass the figured hours are
seen. --Dryden.
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4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
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Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak.
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5. To prefigure; to foreshow.
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In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak.
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6. (Mus.)
(a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other
characters, in order to indicate the accompanying
chords.
(b) To embellish.
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{To figure out}, to solve; to compute or find the result of.
{To figure up}, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "figured":
adorned, allusive, arranged, beaded, bedecked, bedizened,
befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, blueprinted,
calculated, charted, colored, contrived, decked out, decorated,
designed, devised, embellished, embroidered, fancy, feathered,
festooned, figurative, florid, flowered, flowery, garnished,
in the works, jeweled, lush, luxuriant, mannered, metaphorical,
methodized, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar,
on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, ornamented,
ornate, overcharged, overloaded, planned, plotted, plumed,
projected, purple, rationalized, referential, scheduled,
schematized, set, shaped, spangled, spangly, strategetic,
strategic, studded, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical,
tricked out, trimmed, trolatitious, tropological, worked out,
wreathed
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