"figure" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The sales figures from the spring were down from last year."
        },
        {
          "text": "According to the official figures, unemployment levels are about 6 per cent."
        },
        {
          "text": "You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Figures are numbers showing the value or amount of something."
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        {
          "text": "They have published articles about many leading figures including John Reed, J.A. Hobson, Tom Mann, and Daniel de Leon."
        },
        {
          "text": "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands War."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A figure is a person, often a well-known person."
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        {
          "text": "She did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway."
        },
        {
          "text": "Across the river is the figure of Lenin on top of an armored car carved of stone."
        },
        {
          "text": "Her girlish figure had disappeared as she aged, sat more, and ate more."
        },
        {
          "text": "The most popular boy's toy ever is the G.I. Joe action figure."
        },
        {
          "text": "He looked down at the wet figures of the boy and dog."
        }
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        "A figure is a person, especially the person's shape."
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      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "silhouette"
        }
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        "A figure is a geometric shape."
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        "A figure is a picture in a textbook or scientific journal. (Often written fig.)"
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        "participle"
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        {
          "text": "The weather figured prominently in their plans."
        },
        {
          "text": "The fact that he wouldn't be there didn't figure among her worries."
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        "If x figures in something that happens, x is part of that happening."
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        {
          "text": "Few people figured that he would win."
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        "If you figure that something is true, you think that it is true."
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        {
          "text": "He figured out that she was speaking Italian."
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        },
        {
          "text": "According to the official figures, unemployment levels are about 6 per cent."
        },
        {
          "text": "You only have to look at the figures for fire deaths in hotels to see this is not a problem."
        }
      ],
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        "Figures are numbers showing the value or amount of something."
      ],
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        "Countable nouns"
      ],
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          "text": "They have published articles about many leading figures including John Reed, J.A. Hobson, Tom Mann, and Daniel de Leon."
        },
        {
          "text": "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands War."
        }
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      ],
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          "text": "She did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway."
        },
        {
          "text": "Across the river is the figure of Lenin on top of an armored car carved of stone."
        },
        {
          "text": "Her girlish figure had disappeared as she aged, sat more, and ate more."
        },
        {
          "text": "The most popular boy's toy ever is the G.I. Joe action figure."
        },
        {
          "text": "He looked down at the wet figures of the boy and dog."
        }
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        "A figure is a person, especially the person's shape."
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        "A figure is a geometric shape."
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          "text": "The weather figured prominently in their plans."
        },
        {
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          "text": "Few people figured that he would win."
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