The difference between Figure and Form
When used as nouns, figure means a drawing or diagram conveying information, whereas form means the shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
When used as verbs, figure means to calculate, to solve a mathematical problem, whereas form means to assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
check bellow for the other definitions of Figure and Form
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Figure as a noun:
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
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Figure as a noun:
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
Examples:
"a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble"
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Figure as a noun:
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
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Figure as a noun:
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
Examples:
"He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain."
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Figure as a noun (obsolete):
Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
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Figure as a noun:
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
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Figure as a noun:
A numeral.
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Figure as a noun:
A number, an amount.
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Figure as a noun:
A shape.
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Figure as a noun:
A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
Examples:
"The muslin was of a pretty figure."
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Figure as a noun:
Any complex dance move.
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Figure as a noun:
A figure of speech.
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Figure as a noun (logic):
The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
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Figure as a noun (astrology):
A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Examples:
"rfquotek Johnson"
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Figure as a noun (music):
Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
Examples:
"rfquotek Grove"
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Figure as a noun (music):
A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
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Figure as a verb (mostly, US):
To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
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Figure as a verb (mostly, US):
To come to understand.
Examples:
"I can't figure if he's telling the truth or lying."
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Figure as a verb:
To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
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Figure as a verb (mostly, US, intransitive):
To be reasonable.
Examples:
"It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation."
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Figure as a verb (transitive):
To enter, be a part of.
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Figure as a verb (obsolete):
To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
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Figure as a verb:
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
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Figure as a verb (obsolete):
To indicate by numerals.
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Figure as a verb:
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
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Figure as a verb (obsolete):
To prefigure; to foreshow.
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Figure as a verb (music):
To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
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Figure as a verb (music):
To embellish.
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Form as a noun (physical):
To do with shape. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold. Characteristics not involving atomic components. A long bench with no back. The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body. The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
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Form as a noun (social):
To do with structure or procedure. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality. A class or rank in society. A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area). A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in ).
Examples:
"a republican form of government"
"a matter of mere form'"
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Form as a noun:
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
Examples:
"To apply for the position, complete the application form."
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Form as a noun:
Level of performance.
Examples:
"The team's form has been poor this year."
"The orchestra was on top form this evening."
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Form as a noun (grammar):
A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
Examples:
"participial forms;  verb forms'"
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Form as a noun:
The den or home of a hare.
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Form as a noun (computing, programming):
A window or dialogue box.
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Form as a noun (taxonomy):
An infraspecific rank.
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Form as a noun (printing, dated):
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
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Form as a noun (geometry):
A quantic.
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Form as a noun (sports, fitness):
A specific way of performing a movement.
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Form as a verb (transitive):
To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
Examples:
"When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies."
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Form as a verb (transitive):
To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Examples:
"Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet."
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Form as a verb (intransitive):
To take shape.
Examples:
"When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy."
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Form as a verb:
To put together or bring into being; assemble.
Examples:
"The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government."
"Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960."
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Form as a verb (transitive, linguistics):
To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
Examples:
"By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective."
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Form as a verb (transitive):
To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Examples:
"Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders."
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Form as a verb:
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Examples:
"Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality."
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Form as a verb:
To provide (a hare) with a form.
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Form as a verb (electrical, historical, transitive):
To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.