figure (noun)
91three-dimensional figure — noun a three dimensional shape (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑solid figure • Hypernyms: ↑figure • Hyponyms: ↑sculpture …
92two-dimensional figure — noun a two dimensional shape • Syn: ↑plane figure • Hypernyms: ↑figure • Hyponyms: ↑heart, ↑polygon, ↑polygonal shape, ↑conic section, ↑ …
93action figure — noun Date: 1987 a small scale figure (as of a superhero) used especially as a toy …
94lay figure — noun Etymology: obsolete English layman lay figure, from Dutch leeman Date: 1795 1. a jointed model of the human body used by artists to show the disposition of drapery 2. a person so compliant as to be likened to a puppet …
95snow figure — noun snow sculpted into a human figure, a snowman or snowwoman Syn: snowperson, snow sculpture …
96black-figure — noun a type of ancient Greek pottery in which figures are painted in black, details being added by incising through to the red clay background. Compare with red figure …
97red-figure — noun a type of ancient Greek pottery in which the background is painted black, leaving figures in the red colour of the clay. Compare with black figure …
98blister figure — noun : an uneven appearance in some woods caused by irregular depressed and elevated rounded areas in the annual rings * * * blister figure, an irregular pattern in such woods as mahogany, satinwood, and elm, caused by the abnormal growth of… …
99chromatic figure — noun : the mitotic or meiotic chromosomes compare achromatic figure …
100etch figure — noun or etching figure : a marking consisting usually of a minute pit produced by a solvent on the crystal face of a mineral and revealing its molecular structure usually used in plural …
