The act of giving figure or determinate form. / Form, outline or boundaries. / Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures. / Mixture of concords and discords.

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

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

plural of figure

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

plural of figurant

plural of figuring

Having a determinate form.

in a figural manner

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of figure on