present participle of figure

simple past tense and past participle of figure

(of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section. / Adorned with a figure or figures.

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

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

plural of figurant

Forming a figure. / (music) Florid.

To shape; to give a figure.

Representing by means of a figure; emblematic. / Figurative, not literal. / (mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure. / (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.

The property of being figurative.