Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation figurative
  • abbreviation figuratively
  • abbreviation figure

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  • abbreviation figure (example: fig. 2-1)
  • abbreviation figurative (often used in dictionaries, example: (fig.) a fat bank account)

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Examples

  • While you can filter searches by manufacturer if you set up a custom product category, you have to do it using the interface shown in fig. 2.

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  • Unlike the Urbino studiolo, a between space par excellence, the Gubbio studiolo is a more private cul-de-sac, situated at one end of a long gallery (Room #1 in fig. 2.37) that may have been used as a library and audience chamber. 18 From this arrangement, it is likely that the studiolo served in both an official and leisurely capacity, as at Urbino.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The resonance curve is changed by these two possibilities as shown in fig. 11b.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 1989

  • When an iron fence is used it is generally extremely slight, and painted green, so as to be almost invisible; and when this fence is used, it is sometimes concealed by a plantation of trees thrown together indiscriminately, as in fig. 12., or planted artistically in groups.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • With the aid of these figures, and the pegs and strings, several very complicated gardens may be formed; for instance, that shown in fig. 11.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • The other room (e in fig. 13.) should be supplied with rails and perches to serve as roosting-places (fig. 15.), and these rails are best of rough wood, as they afford a more secure resting-place for the fowls than if they were round and smooth.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • All pictures should be submitted separately, jpeg format, titled fig. no.1, fig. no.2 and so on.

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  • Maria Pernis has proposed, for example, that the north turret2 (lowest of the two depicted in fig. 6.4) was conceived as a spine for the duke's private percorso, a symbolic narrative that "ascended" through the ducal palace from worldly action through physical and spiritual purification to contemplative pursuits, recalling Aeneas's journey in Virgil's Aeneid. 3 Before such an ascent would be possible, however, Federico would have first descended (an act no less symbolic) by the scala a lumaca,4 from his bedchambers on the piano nobile to the stables three flights below, at the foundations of the palace. 5

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The company which changed it's name to "fig." closed it's doors on December 7, 2007, and is in process of bankruptcy, after I had only had 6 sets of area #1.

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  • It's a disgrace and a scandal but there's not a soul in the UK parliament that gives a flying fig.

    Steve Bell on David Cameron and bankers' bonuses 2011

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