(of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section. / Adorned with a figure or figures.

simple past tense and past participle of figure

Calculation. / Structure, design, or arrangement; figure. / Representation.

present participle of figure

To shape; to give a figure.

Forming a figure. / (music) Florid.

(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. / (chiefly US) To come to understand. / To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. / (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.

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