"figure-eight" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "figure eight"
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        {
          "ref": "2007, William D. Bandy, Barbara Sanders, Therapeutic Exercise for Physical Therapist Assistants, page 366",
          "text": "For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Kevin Lane, Fail-Safe for Fallacy, page 19",
          "text": "One cloudy day the instructors set me up to ride through a very, very tight figure-eight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, William Steinkraus, Reflections on Riding and Jumping: Winning Techniques for Serious Riders",
          "text": "The figure-eight is really no more than two circles in different directions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of figure eight"
      ],
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  "word": "figure-eight"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "figure-eights",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figure-eighting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figure-eighted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "figure-eighted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 61",
          "text": "For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Harold Black, Manual of Horsemanship",
          "text": "When he has been circled or figure-eighted enough times, he will become convinced that he is not to be asked to take the fence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, Seaman, page 87",
          "text": "To prevent the hook from tumbling and coming out of the hoisting eye, a short lanyard on the pea of the counterbalance is figure-eighted around the shank and tip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Prudence Mackintosh, Retreads, page 59",
          "text": "Back and forth across the dim street he gracefully figure-eighted, using only his narrow hips and occasionally one hand to direct the bicycle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "figure-eight"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "figure-eights",
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          "word": "figure eight"
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        {
          "ref": "2007, William D. Bandy, Barbara Sanders, Therapeutic Exercise for Physical Therapist Assistants, page 366",
          "text": "For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Kevin Lane, Fail-Safe for Fallacy, page 19",
          "text": "One cloudy day the instructors set me up to ride through a very, very tight figure-eight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, William Steinkraus, Reflections on Riding and Jumping: Winning Techniques for Serious Riders",
          "text": "The figure-eight is really no more than two circles in different directions.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of figure eight"
      ],
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    {
      "form": "figure-eighting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "figure-eighted",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "figure-eighted",
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        {
          "ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 61",
          "text": "For two minutes we figure-eighted back and forth across the face of the mountain and then popped out right beside the sidewalk café.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Harold Black, Manual of Horsemanship",
          "text": "When he has been circled or figure-eighted enough times, he will become convinced that he is not to be asked to take the fence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, Seaman, page 87",
          "text": "To prevent the hook from tumbling and coming out of the hoisting eye, a short lanyard on the pea of the counterbalance is figure-eighted around the shank and tip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Prudence Mackintosh, Retreads, page 59",
          "text": "Back and forth across the dim street he gracefully figure-eighted, using only his narrow hips and occasionally one hand to direct the bicycle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move or cause to move in a figure eight pattern."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "figure-eight"
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