Figures

Definition

figure / 'fÇgǝ(r); US 'fÇgjǝr / n ၁။ [C esp pl ] ကိန္းဂဏန္း။ the latest trade/unemployment figures ❍ monthly sales figures ❍ Viewing figures for the series have dropped dramatically. ၂။ [C] ဂဏန္း။ ဂဏန္းေျခ။ Write the figure ‘7’ on the board. ❍ He has an income of six figures / a six-figure income (eg £ 100 000 or more). See also DOUBLE FIGURES ၃။ figures [pl] ( infml ) ဂဏန္းသခ်ၤာ။ Are you good at figures? ❍ I'm afraid I have no head for figures. ၄။ [C] (က) ကိုယ္ကာယ (သို႔) ပံုပန္း။ She's always had a good figure. ❍ You need to watch your figure (ie take care not to get fat). (ခ) သဏၭာန္။ The nurse was a reassuring figure in her starched white uniform. ❍ Help was at hand in the figure of a burly police constable. (ဂ) သဏၭာန္။ I saw a figure approaching through the gloom. ❍ No one noticed the sleeping figure in the corner. ၅။ [C] ပုဂၢိဳလ္။ a key/ leading figure in the mining industry ❍ a cult figure ❍ The event was attended by many public figures. See also FATHER -FIGURE ၆။ [C] ပံု၊ ။ ႐ုပ္ပံု။ အ႐ုပ္။ ။ The central figure in the painting is the artist's daughter. ❍ a bronze figure of a horse. ၇။ [C] (က) ပံု။ The figure on page 22 shows a political map of Africa. (ခ) ပံု။ a five-sided figure. ၈။ [C] ပံုစံ။ ပံု။ The skater executed a perfect set of figures. ❍ figure-skating. v ၁။ ~ in / on sth (ဇာတ္လမ္းစသည္တြင္) ပါဝင္သည္၊ ထည့္သည္။ This character figures prominently in many of her novels. ❍ He's figured in countless public debates on the issue. ❍ It doesn't figure high on my list of priorities. ၂။ (က) ခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ တြက္ဆသည္။ I figured (that) you wouldn't come. It's what I figured. (ခ) ( infml ) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္။ ‘John isn't here today. ’ ‘That figures, he didn't look very well yesterday. ’ ❏ be / become a figure of fun [ IDM ] လူရယ္စရာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ cut a fine, poor, sorry, etc figure [ IDM ] … ပံု ေပါက္သည္။ ❏ figure of eight ( US also figure eight ) n ထဆင္ထူး ကဲ့သို႔ ကြင္းလိမ္သဏၭာန္။ skating figures of eight on the ice. ❏ figure of speech n တင္စားခ်က္။ I didn't mean she really has her head in the sand— it's just a figure of speech. ❏ figure on sth / doing sth [ PHRV ] ( US ) မွန္းထားသည္။ တြက္ဆထားသည္။ I figure on being in New York in January. ❏ figure sb / sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ နားလည္သည္။ I've never been able to figure him out. ❍ I can't figure out why he quit his job. ❍ Have you figured out what's wrong with your car? ၂။ တြက္ခ်က္သည္။ တြက္သည္။ Have you figured out how much the trip will cost? ❏ put a figure on sth [ IDM ] သတ္မွတ္သည္။ It's impossible to put a figure on the number of homeless people in London.

Examples

1. Government figures show a continued decline in unemployment.
2. This year’s sales figures were excellent.
3. The final inflation figure was 6.5% for the year.
4. She sat and stared at the figures on the page.
5. [single/double figures] : Inflation has reached double figures for the first time in 15 years.
6. What kind of figure are we looking at for this project?
7. [put a figure on something] : It’s difficult to put an exact figure on the rebuilding work.
8. [three/four/five/six figures] : The chairman’s bonus payment could well reach six figures this year.
9. [have a good head for figures] : I’ve never had a good head for figures.
10. [a prominent/key/leading figure] : She was the dominant figure in British politics in the 1980s.
11. A small figure appeared in the doorway.
12. There are three figures in the foreground.
13. A stone figure of a man
14. How to achieve the perfect figure without dieting.
15. Now in her fifties
16. she still has a fabulous figure.
17. [keep your figure] : After a certain age
18. you have to work hard to keep your figure.
19. [watch your figure] : No cake for me
20. thanks
21. I have to watch my figure.
22. A five-sided figure
23. Figure 8 illustrates changing patterns of employment over the years.