Phrase Hound found 44 phrases and 15 compound words that contain figures. The most common are listed below. Open figures in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 44
- action figuresplural of action figure: A children's toy in the form of a posable plastic figurine of a character, often from a movie, video game, or television program, with moving parts and often capable of some form of spring-loaded movement. It is …
- significant figuresplural of significant figure: A digit that is meaningful with respect to the precision of a measurement; that is, excluding any leading zeroes, trailing rounding or placeholder zeroes, and non-zero digits not warranted by the accuracy of a …
- public figuresplural of public figure: A famous person whose life is the subject of public interest.
- figures of speechplural of figure of speech: A word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use to produce a rhetorical effect.
- double figurescomposed of two digits, i.e. between 10 and 99.
- figures of meritplural of figure of merit: a numerical value used in comparing the quality or performance of different methods, systems, or devices.
- seven figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 1,000,000 to 9,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- six figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000 to 999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- three figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 100 to 999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- figures of eightplural of figure of eight: in the shape of an 8 (eight)
- figures of funplural of figure of fun: A person who is frequently mocked; a target of ridicule.
- figures outthird-person singular simple present indicative of figure out: To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- father figuresplural of father figure: One who represents, behaves as, or is regarded as equivalent to a father for another person or group of people.
- eight figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 10,000,000 to 99,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- stick figuresplural of stick figure: A simple drawing, usually representing a human.
- terminal figuresplural of terminal figure: a statue with a head or bust carved out of the top of a square tapering pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome.
- nine figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000,000 to 999,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- lay figuresplural of lay figure: A jointed model of the human body used by artists, or to display clothes.
- five figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 10,000 to 99,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- four figuresAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 1000 to 9999 dollars or other unit of currency.
- bowling figuresA group of statistics listed for each bowler in a single innings:- number of overs bowled, number of maiden overs bowled, number of runs conceded and number of wickets taken.
- vertex figuresplural of vertex figure: The figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
- authority figuresplural of authority figure: Someone who is in a position of authority.
- big figuresplural of big figure: In a money market, the part of a monetary value before the decimal point.
- break figuresplural of break figure: A prearranged amount of takings beyond which the exhibitor of a film must start paying a higher film rental rate.
Compound words 15
- configuresthird-person singular simple present indicative of configure: To set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking
- reconfiguresthird-person singular simple present indicative of reconfigure: To arrange into a new configuration.
- prefiguresthird-person singular simple present indicative of prefigure: To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
- counterfiguresplural of counterfigure: A figure in mythology, etc. representing the opposite of another, such as the Antichrist to Christ.
- deconfiguresthird-person singular simple present indicative of deconfigure: To remove from a configuration or arrangement.
- disfiguresthird-person singular simple present indicative of disfigure: to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.
- microfiguresplural of microfigure: A figure of a person that is smaller than a minifigure but larger than a nanofigure.
- minifiguresplural of minifigure: A small figure of a person, especially in toys such as Lego.
- misfiguresthird-person singular simple present indicative of misfigure: To miscalculate; to make a computational error.
- nanofiguresplural of nanofigure: A figure of a person that is smaller than a microfigure.