figur-; fig- +

1. To take a form or a position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.
2. To give a configuration, form, or design to something.

1. The arrangement of parts or elements or the way the parts of something are arranged and fit together.
2. The form, as of a figure, determined by the arrangement of its parts or elements.
3. In psychology, gestalt or a set of things; such as, a person's thoughts and experiences considered as a whole and regarded as amounting to more than the sum of its parts.
4. In computer science, the way in which a computer system is set up; such as, the configuration of the computer was changed by resetting the parameters.
5. The set of constituent components; such as, memory, a hard disk, a monitor, and an operating system, that make up a computer system.
6. The way that the components of a computer network are connected.

Stories, or lies, spread around on the internet: "There are many examples of cyberfictions being sent out on the internet and so it is necessary that all of us have doubts about anything that is sent out by websites."

1. To spoil, deform, or mar the appearance of someone or something.
2. To cause a permanent change in a person's body, particularly by leaving visible scars which affect a person's appearance.

1. An appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen.
2. The result of being disfigured; such as, a permanent scar.

1. A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group.
2. The likeness of or an image of something or someone.
3. A representation or image; especially, sculptured, as on a monument.
4. A representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public; often used in the phrases "burn in effigy" or "hang in effigy".
5. Etymology: "image of a person," from Middle French effigie (13th century), from Latin effigies, "copy" or "imitation of something, a likeness"; from or related to effingere, "to mold, to fashion, to portray"; from ex-, "out" + fingere, "to form, to shape".

1. Not bright, clear, or loud.
2. Done feebly and without conviction.
3. Dizzy or weak, as if about to become unconscious.
4. Etymology: "lacking in courage", now mostly in faint-hearted (mid-15th century), from Old French feint, "soft, weak, sluggish"; the past participle verb form of feindre, "hesitate, falter, be indolent, show weakness, avoid one's duty by pretending".

Don't confuse the spelling of faint and feint, which have similar sounds.

Faint, the more frequent in usage of the two words, can be used as an adjective meaning "dizzy, weak" or "slight"; such as, in "to feel faint, a faint smell, a faint chance"; or as a noun or verb referring to a sudden loss of consciousness.

Feint is a noun or verb referring to "a deceptive action in a sport" or "in combat".

1. To pretend to have a particular feeling.
2. To make believe with the intent to deceive or to make a pretence of doing something.
3. To make a show or a pretense of something; to imitate or to copy someone or something.
4. Etymology: from Old French feign-, stem of feindre, "to pretend, to represent, to imitate, to shirk"; from Latin fingere, "to touch, to handle; to devise; to fabricate, to alter, to change"; and "to form, to fashion, to shape".

1. To pretend to make a movement; especially, to trick an opponent in a sport or a fight.
2. A deceptive action made to disguise what is really intended.
3. A mock attack by a military force which is intended to draw the enemy's attention away from the true attack.
4. Etymology: from French feinte, "a feint, a sham"; an abstract noun from Old French feint, (13th century) "false, deceitful"; originally the past participle verb form of feindre.

1. Novels and stories that describe imaginary people and events.
2. A novel, story, or other work of fiction.
3. Something that is untrue and has been made up to deceive people: "The account of that incident was pure fiction."
4. The act of pretending or inventing something: "They were living the fiction that their marriage had become.
5. Something that is assumed in law to be true regardless of whether or not it is true.
6. Etymology: from about 1398, "something invented", from Latin fictionem (nominative case, fictio), "a fashioning" or "feigning"; from fingere, "to shape, to form, to devise, to feign", originally "to knead, to form out of clay".

As a type of literature, about 1599. "Fictitious" is from about 1615; from Middle Latin fictitus, a misspelling of Latin ficticius, "artificial, counterfeit"; from fictus, past participle of fingere.

1. Not true or genuine, and intended to deceive or used for tricking people.
2. Invented by someone's imagination; especially, as part of a work of fiction.
3. Not genuinely believed or felt; a sham: "She greeted him with a fictitious enthusiasm."

1. Referring to or relating to, or characterized by fiction; imaginary.
2. In a false manner and intended to mislead others.

1. Something produced by, or only existing in, someone's imagination.
2. Something invented, made up, or fabricated: "It was just a figment of her imagination without any basis on fact."
3. An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined: "These assertions are the figments of idle political brains."
4. Etymology: from Latin figmentum, "something formed or fashioned, creation"; related to figura, "shape"; from Old French figure; from Latin figura, "a shape, a form, a figure".

Something imagined or created by a person in his or her mind.

1. A member of a corps de ballet who does not perform solos.
2. A stage performer having no speaking part.

Someone who dances at an opera, not singly, but in groups or figures.

An accessory character on the stage, who is in its scenes, but has nothing to say; therefore, someone who figures in a scene, without taking a prominent part in it.