different between figure vs dirigent

English

Etymology

From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin fig?ra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fing? (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey??- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (teîkhos), Sanskrit ?????? (degdhi), Old English d?g (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??j?/, /?f???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f???/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?f???/, /?f??j?/
• Rhymes: -???(?), -??j?(?)
• Hyphenation: fig?ure

Noun

figure (plural figures)

1. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
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. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
4. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

   He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.

   • I made some figure there.

   • 1770, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

     gentlemen of the best figure in the county

5. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
   • 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

     that he may live in figure and indulgence

6. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
7. A numeral.
8. A number, an amount.
9. A shape.
10. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.

    The muslin was of a pretty figure.

11. Any complex dance move^W.
12. A figure of speech.
13. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
14. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

15. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
    • 1888, George Grove, Beethoven's Nine Symphonies: Analytical Essays

      Here, Beethoven limits the syncopations and modifications of rhythm which are so prominent in the first and third movements, and employs a rapid, busy, and most melodious figure in the Violins, which is irresistible in its gay and brilliant effect […]

16. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

Derived terms

Related terms

• figurine
• figurative
• figuratively

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (figyua)

Translations

Verb

figure (third-person singular simple present figures, present participle figuring, simple past and past participle figured)

1. (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
2. (chiefly US) To come to understand.

3. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
4. (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.

5. (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
6. (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.
7. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
8. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
   • 1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton

     As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

9. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
10. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
11. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
12. (music) To embellish.

Derived terms

• go figure
• prefigure
• figure on
• figure out (US)

Translations

Further reading

• figure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• figure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fig?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.?y?/

Noun

figure f (plural figures)

1. face
2. figure

Synonyms

• visage

Derived terms

Further reading

• “figure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

figure f

1. plural of figura

Portuguese

Verb

figure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of figurar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of figurar
3. third-person singular negative imperative of figurar
4. third-person singular imperative of figurar

Spanish

Verb

figure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of figurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of figurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of figurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of figurar.

English

Etymology

From Latin d?rig?ns, present participle of d?rig?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.?.d??nt/

Noun

dirigent (plural dirigents)

1. (now chiefly biochemistry) Something that or someone who directs; a director or guide.
   • 2011, Florence Gleason, Raymond Chollet, Plant Biochemistry, page 133,

     The monolignol substrates are held in position by proteins called dirigents (guide proteins). […] Lignan dirigent proteins are found in the cytoplasm, but similar dirigents have been localized in the cell walls of some plants.

   • 1905, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, Volume 68, page 887,

     One of its members is deputed in rotation to maintain continuous contact with the director or dirigents of the hospital by means of biweekly, if necessary daily, visits to the institution.

2. (dated, geometry) The line of motion of a describent line or surface that in so moving defines a plane or solid figure; a directrix.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hutton to this entry?)

   • 1877, James Booth, A Treatise on Some New Geometrical Methods, page 348,

     The straight line in which the vertical polar plane cuts the plane of the circle of contact is called the dirigent. As there are in general two circles of contact, there are two dirigents, and they are parallel to the diretrices.

   • 1891, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 21, page 308,

     In this case, to which Sphero-Cartesians, and all other sphero-quadrics, whose dirigents are small circles, are analogous in Spherics, the dirigent conic F must also have double contact with S.

Adjective

dirigent (not comparable)

1. That directs.
   • 17thC, Richard Baxter, The Life of Faith, 1838, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, Volume 3, page 690,

     6. God must then be known in his three personalities; as the Father, the Word or Son, and the Spirit.

     7. And these in their three causalities; efficient, dirigent, and final.

   • 17thC, Richard Baxter, Mr. Baxter's Dying Thoughts, 1838, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, Volume 3, page 1012,

     V. I shall better know the methods and perfections of the Scripture, and all God's dirigent word and will.

See also

• dirigible

Anagrams

• ingirted

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.?i??ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.?i??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.?i?d??ent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

dirigent m (plural dirigents)

1. leader

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?r???nt]

Noun

dirigent m

1. (music) A conductor

Related terms

• See režim
• dirigovat

Further reading

• dirigent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dirigent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

dirigent c (singular definite dirigenten, plural indefinite dirigenter)

1. (music) a conductor

References

• “dirigent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rig?ns, present participle of d?rig? (“I direct”). The sense “conductor” was probably borrowed from German Dirigent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.ri???nt/
• Hyphenation: di?ri?gent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

dirigent m (plural dirigenten, diminutive dirigentje n)

1. A conductor, person who musically directs an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble
2. (figuratively) A director, person pulling the strings

Derived terms

Related terms

• dirigeren

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: dirigen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.?i.???/

Verb

dirigent

1. third-person plural present indicative of diriger
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of diriger

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?di?.ri.?ent/, [?d?i?????n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?di.ri.d??ent/, [?d?i??id???n?t?]

Verb

d?rigent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of d?rig?

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From German Dirigent, from Latin d?rig?ns, present participle of d?rig?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ir?i????nt/

Noun

dirigent m (feminine equivalent dirigentka)

1. conductor (person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble)

Declension

Further reading

• dirigent in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dirigent m (definite singular dirigenten, indefinite plural dirigenter, definite plural dirigentene)

1. (music) a conductor

Derived terms

• kordirigent

Related terms

• dirigere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dirigent m (definite singular dirigenten, indefinite plural dirigentar, definite plural dirigentane)

1. (music) a conductor

Derived terms

• kordirigent

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dir??ent/
• Hyphenation: di?ri?gent

Noun

dirìgent m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. conductor (music)

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diri???nt/

Noun

dirig?nt m anim (female equivalent dirigêntka)

1. conductor, person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble

Inflection

Further reading

• “dirigent”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

dirigent c

1. conductor (person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble)

Declension

Related terms

• dirigera