Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 24
Figure (n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
Who is the figure of Him that was to come. -- Rom. v. 14.
Figure (n.) (Rhet.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. Also
called a figure of speech.
To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. -- Macaulay.
Figure (n.) (Logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Figure (n.) (Dancing) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
Figure (n.) (Astrol.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. -- Johnson.
Figure (n.) (Music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
Figure (n.) (Music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
Note: Figures are often written upon the staff in music to denote the kind of measure. They are usually in the form of a fraction, the upper figure showing how many notes of the kind indicated by the lower are contained in one measure or bar. Thus, 2/4 signifies that the measure contains two quarter notes. The following are the principal figures used for this purpose: -- 2/22/42/8 4/22/44/8 3/23/43/8 6/46/46/8
Academy figure, Canceled figures, Lay figure, etc. See under Academy, Cancel, Lay, etc.
Figure caster, or Figure flinger, An astrologer. "This figure caster." -- Milton.
Figure flinging, The practice of astrology.
Figure-of-eight knot, A knot shaped like the figure 8. See Illust. under Knot.
Figure painting, A picture of the human figure, or the act or art of depicting the human figure.
Agalmatolite (n.) (Min.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.
Figure stone (Min.), Agalmatolite.
Figure weaving, The art or process of weaving figured fabrics.
To cut a figure, To make a display. [Colloq.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Figured (imp. & p. p.) of Figure.
Figuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Figure.
Figure (v. t.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare. Prior.
Figure (v. t.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. -- Shak.
Figure (v. t.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. -- Dryden.
Figure (v. t.) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Whose white vestments figure innocence. -- Shak.
Figure (v. t.) To prefigure; to foreshow.
In this the heaven figures some event. -- Shak.
Figure (v. t.) (Mus.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
Figure (v. t.) To embellish.
To figure out, To solve; to compute or find the result of.
To figure up, To add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.
Figure (v. i.) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. -- M. Arnold.
Figure (v. i.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination. [Colloq.]
Go figure, A phrase used by itself as an interjection to mean "How can one explain that?", or to express puzzlement over some seeming contradiction. [Colloq.]
Figure (n.) A diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2" [syn: figure, fig].
Figure (n.) Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh].
Figure (n.) One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; "0 and 1 are digits" [syn: digit, figure].
Figure (n.) A model of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus."
Figure (n.) A well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music" [syn: name, figure, public figure].
Figure (n.) A combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape.
Figure (n.) An amount of money expressed numerically; "a figure of $17 was suggested."
Figure (n.) The impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure."
Figure (n.) The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" [syn: number, figure].
Figure (n.) Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: trope, figure of speech, figure, image].
Figure (n.) A unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground [ant: ground].
Figure (n.) A decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors" [syn: design, pattern, figure].
Figure (n.) A predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures."
Figure (v.) Judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast].
Figure (v.) Be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?" [syn: figure, enter].
Figure (v.) Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image].
Figure (v.) Make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure].
Figure (v.) Understand; "He didn't figure her."
Figured (a.) Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
Figured (a.) Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] -- Locke.
Figured (a.) (Mus.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
Figured (a.) (Mus.) Indicated or noted by figures.
Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.
Figured (a.) (Of e.g. fabric design) Adorned with patterns; "my dress is richly figured." -- Amy Lowell
Figurehead (n.) (Naut.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
Figurehead (n.) A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
Figurehead (n.) A person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman].
Figurehead (n.) Figure on the bow of some sailing vessels.
Figurial (a.) Represented by figure or delineation. [R.] -- Craig.
Figurine (n.) A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
Figurine (n.) A small carved or molded figure [syn: figurine, statuette].
Figurist (n.) One who uses or interprets figurative expressions. -- Waterland.
Figwort (n.) (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants ({Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
Figwort (n.) Any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia.
Fijian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
Fijian (n.) A native of the Fiji islands. [Written also Feejeean, Feejee.]
Fijian (a.) Of or relating to Fiji or its people or language or culture; "the Fijian population"; "Fijian folktales."
Fijian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Fiji.
Fijian (n.) The Oceanic language spoken on Fiji.
Fike (n.) See Fyke.
Fil () imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell. -- Chaucer.
Filaceous (a.) Composed of threads. -- Bacon.
Filacer (n.) (Eng. Law) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [Obs.] -- Burrill.
FILACER, FILAZIER, or FILZER, English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process.
FILE, () practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.
FILE, () A paper is said to be filed, when it is delivered to the proper officer, and by him received to be kept on file. 13 Vin. Ab. 211.
Filament (n.) [C] 細絲，細線；（電燈泡的）白熱絲，燈絲 A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Filament (n.) A very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand].
Filament (n.) The stalk of a stamen.
Filament (n.) A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) [syn: filament, filum].
Filament (n.) A thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current.
Filamentary (a.) 細絲的；單纖維的；似絲的 Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
Filamentoid (a.) Like a filament.
Filamentous (a.) Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. -- Gray.
Filander (n.) (Zool.) A species of kangaroo ({Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.
Filanders (n. pl.) (Falconry) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. -- Sir T. Browne.
Filar (a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
Filaria (n.; pl. filariae.) (Zool.) A small, slender nematode worm of the family Onchocercidae ({Filariidae) of many species, parasitic when adult in various animals, including man. They may live within the blood, or in other bodily fluids, or within tissues or cavities of the body. Infection with such organisms may be transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods.
Filaria (n.) (Zool.) A former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family Onchocercidae. See Onchocerca and Guinea worm.
Filatory (n.) A machine for forming threads.
Filature (n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
Filature (n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.
Filbert (n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
Filched (imp. & p. p.) of Filch.
Filching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filch.
Filch (v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Filcher (n.) One who filches; a thief.
Filchingly (adv.) By pilfering or petty stealing.
File (n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row; as:
File (n.) (Mil.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
Note: The number of files in a company describes its width, as the number of ranks does its depth; thus, 100 men in "fours deep" would be spoken of as 25 files in 4 ranks. -- Farrow.
File (n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
File (n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
It is upon a file with the duke's other letters. -- Shak.
File (n.) A roll or list. "A file of all the gentry." -- Shak.
File (n.) Course of thought; thread of narration. [Obs.]
Let me resume the file of my narration. -- Sir H. Wotton.
File (n.) (computers) a collection of data on a digital recording medium treated as a unit for the purpose of recording, reading, storage, or indexing; -- such a file is typically accessible by computer programs by the use of a file name.
The data may be of any type codable digitally, such as simple ASCII-coded text, complex binary-coded data, or an executable program, or may be itself a collection of other files.
File firing, The act of firing by file, or each file independently of others.
File leader, The soldier at the front of any file, who covers and leads those in rear of him.
File marching, The marching of a line two deep, when faced to the right or left, so that the front and rear rank march side by side. -- Brande & C.
Indian file, or Single file, A line of people marching one behind another; a single row. Also used adverbially; as, to march Indian file.
On file, Preserved in an orderly collection; recorded in some database.
Rank and file. (a) The body of soldiers constituting the mass of an army, including corporals and privates. -- Wilhelm.
Rank and file. (b) Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders.
Filed (imp. & p. p.) of File.
Filing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of File.
File (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed. -- Beau. & Fl.
File (v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill. --Burrill.
File (v. t.) (Law) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
To file a paper, on the part of a party, is to place it in the official custody of the clerk. To file, on the part of the clerk, is to indorse upon the paper the date of its reception, and retain it in his office, subject to inspection by whomsoever it may concern. -- Burrill.
File (v. i.) (Mil.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
To file with, To follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace.
My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet filed with my abilities. -- Shak.
File (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
Note: A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch.
File (n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. -- Akenside.
File (n.) A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] -- Fielding.
Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. -- Thackeray.
Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc.
Cross-cut file, A file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely.
File blank, A steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file.
File cutter, A maker of files.
Second-cut file, A file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard.
Single-cut file, A file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float.
Smooth file, A file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface.
File (v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
File (v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file. -- Shak.
File your tongue to a little more courtesy. -- Sir W. Scott.
File (v. t.) To make foul; to defile. [Obs.]
All his hairy breast with blood was filed. -- Spenser.
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind. -- Shak.
File (n.) A set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together [syn: file, data file].
File (n.) A line of persons or things ranged one behind the other [syn: file, single file, Indian file].
File (n.) Office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order [syn: file, file cabinet, filing cabinet].
File (n.) A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal.
File (v.) Record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint" [syn: file, register].
File (v.) Smooth with a file; "file one's fingernails."
File (v.) Proceed in line; "The students filed into the classroom."
File (v.) File a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: charge, lodge, file].
File (v.) Place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please" [syn: file, file away].
FILE, () Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia (WWW, DICT)
File
Computer file
An element of data storage in a file system.
The history of computing is rich in varied kinds of files and file systems, whether ornate like the Macintosh file system or deficient like many simple pre-1980s file systems that didn't have directories. However, a typical file has these characteristics:
* It is a single sequence of bytes (but consider Macintosh resource forks).
* It has a finite length, unlike, e.g., a Unix device.
* It is stored in a non-volatile storage medium (but see ramdrive).
* It exists (nominally) in a directory.
* It has a name that it can be referred to by in file operations, possibly in combination with its path.
Additionally, a file system may support other file attributes, such as permissions; timestamps for creation, last modification, and last access and revision numbers (a` la VMS).
Compare: document.
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Filefish (n.) (Zool.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
Filefish (n.) Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine.
Filemot (n.) See Feullemort. -- Swift.
Filer (n.) One who works with a file.
Filer (n.) A party who files a notice with a law court.
Filer (n.) A clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization [syn: file clerk, filing clerk, filer].
Filer, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 1620
Housing Units (2000): 676
Land area (2000): 0.798538 sq. miles (2.068203 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.798538 sq. miles (2.068203 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27730
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.569814 N, 114.611313 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83328
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Filer, ID
Filer
Filial (a.) Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
Filial (a.) Bearing the relation of a child.
And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke. -- Milton.
Filial (a.) Designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation [ant: parental].
Filial (a.) Relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring; "filial respect" [ant: maternal, parental, paternal].
Filial (a.) Of or relating to a son or daughter : appropriate for a son or daughter.
Filial (a.) Of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter <filial obedience>.
Filial (a.) Having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring. filially (adv.)
Filial (a.) Relating to or suitable for a son or daughter <filial affection>.
Filially (adv.) In a filial manner.
Filiate (v. t.) To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. [R.] -- Southey.
Filiate (v.) Fix the paternity of; "The court filiated the child born out of wedlock."
Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
The relation of paternity and filiation. -- Sir M. Hale.
Filiation (n.) (Law) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation. -- Smart.
Filiation (n.) Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a language.
Filiation (n.) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock.
Filiation (n.) The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors [syn: descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation].
Filiation (n.) Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [syn: ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation].
Filiation, () civil law. The descent of son or daughter, with regard to his or her father, mother, and their ancestors.
Filiation, () Nature always points out the mother by evident signs, and whether married or not, she is always certain: mater semper certa est, etiamsi vulgo conceperit. There is not the same certainty with regard to the father, and the relation may not know or feign ignorance as to the paternity the law has therefore established a legal presumption to serve as a foundation for paternity and filiation.
Filiation, () When the mother is or has been married, her husband is presumed to be the father of the children born during the coverture, or within a competent time afterwards; whether they were conceived during the coverture or not: pater is est quem nuptice demonstrant.
Filiation, () This rule is founded on two presumptions; one on the cohabitation before the birth of the child; and the other that the mother has faithfully observed the vow she made to her husband.
Filiation, () This presumption may, however, be rebutted by showing either that there has been no cohabitation, or some physical or other impossibility that the husband could be the father. See Access; Bastard; Gestation; Natural children; Paternity; Putative father. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 302, et seq.
Filibeg (n.) Same as Kilt. [Written also philibeg.]
Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
Fillibustered (imp. & p. p.) of Filibuster.
Filibustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filibuster.
Filibuster (v. i.) To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. -- Bartlett.
Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Filibuster (n.) A legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes [syn: filibuster, filibusterer].
Filibuster (n.) (Law) A tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches.
Filibuster (v.) Obstruct deliberately by delaying.
Filibusterism (n.) The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. -- Bartlett.
Filical (a.) Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
Filicic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Filicide (n.) A parent who murders his own son or daughter.
Filicide (n.) The murder of your own son or daughter.
Filiciform (a.) Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. -- Smart.
Filicoid (a.) (Bot.) Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.
Filicoid (n.) (Bot.) A fernlike plant. -- Lindley.
Filiety (n.) The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity. -- J. S. Mill.
Filiferous (a.) Producing threads. -- Carpenter.
Filiform (a.) Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe. Filigrain
Filiform (a.) Thin in diameter; resembling a thread [syn: filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready].
Filigrain (n.) Alt. of Filigrane.
Filigrane (n.) Filigree. [Archaic]
With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. -- Longfellow.
Filigraned (a.) See Filigreed. [Archaic]
Filigree (n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
Filigree (a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. -- J. C. Shairp.
Filigree (n.) Delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) [syn: filigree, filagree, fillagree].
Filigree (v.) Make filigree, as with a precious metal.
Filigreed (a.) Adorned with filigree. -- Tatler.