Figured
['fɪɡəd] or ['fɪɡjɚd]
Definition
(adj.) (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; 'my dress is richly figured'- Amy Lowell .
Typist: Miranda--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Figure
(a.) Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
(a.) Not literal; figurative.
(a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
(a.) Indicated or noted by figures.
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Examples
- A certain great traveller, who understood the Indians and their language, had figured in Mr. Seegrave's report, hadn't he? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It's all figured out, _guapa_, he said softly against Maria's shoulder. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Netherlands figured largely in the crusades. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many readers may have wondered why that question has not figured in these pages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And she brought him in the Morning Post, with the names of all the great people who had figured at Lord Steyne's entertainment the night before. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In spite of resentment, by day and night she figured to herself the toils and dangers of the wanderers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then she figured in a waltz with Monsieur de Klingenspohr, the Prince of Peterwaradin's cousin and attache. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The type of this class in the United States navy was the Brooklyn, which figured prominently in the war with Spain in 1898. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- India figured--presumably as a fully self-governing state! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The wild animals in the woods took fright at the unknown shapes figured on the ground. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Two figured conspicuously in the van of the party. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Another noteworthy type we have figured is the _Triceratops_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We can as little reply, that it exists in every part: For then we must suppose it figured and extended; which is absurd and incomprehensible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Of this kind is the distinction betwixt figure and the body figured; motion and the body moved. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It enabled all kinds of fabrics, from the finest to the coarsest, to be cheaply woven into patterns having figured or ornamental designs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I never saw you look so pale, madam, said Tantripp, a solid-figured woman who had been with the sisters at Lausanne. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Jacquard device could be applied to any loom, and it worked a revolution in the manufacture of figured goods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Before his invention, figured patterns of cloth could only be made by slow and laborious processes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Perhaps she figured Jos to herself panting up the stair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The latter figured as a general in the late war, on the Confederate side, and was author of the tactics first used by both armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The mysterious person who figured in his wife's past as the secretary had probably not been unrewarded for his share in her escape. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The disk has radial slits around its periphery, and is held with its figured face before a looking glass. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Seems to me, Dolph, he added, laying his finger on the elegant figured satin vest that Adolph was sporting, seems to me that's _my_ veSt. O! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Often with maternal affection she had figured their merits and talents exerted on life's wide stage. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The trouble, I figured, must be in the way politics is concerned with the nation's interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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