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Fig.

/fɪɡ/

Of use as a metaphor, simile, or metonym, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.

📖 Definitions of "Fig."

adjective
  1. 1

    Of use as a metaphor, simile, or metonym, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.

  2. 2

    Metaphorically so called.

  3. 3

    With many figures of speech.

  4. 4

    Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative

noun
  1. 1

    A drawing or diagram conveying information.

  2. 2

    The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

    "a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble"

  3. 3

    A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.

  4. 4

    The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

    "He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain."

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