A drawing or diagram conveying information. / The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

An actor or dancer in the background lacking an aural presence.

plural of figurant

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of figure / (by ellipsis) It figures.

plural of figure

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.

(manner) In a figurative manner. / Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.

Representing by means of a figure; emblematic. / Figurative, not literal. / (mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure. / (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.

The quality or degree of being figural.

plural of figurality