figura-1
figure ; icon ; shape.
Figure 16 on page 24 gives an overview of searching.
Icons, or pictorial representations of objects in systems, were pioneered by Xerox.
If the book has an unusual shape then both the height and the width of the book will be given.
buena figura
curvaceous
Women are indeed blessed with a curvaceous body, so a bit of revealing here and there doesn't do much harm.
Caballero de la Triste Figura, el
Knight of the Doleful Countenance, the
The novel tells the story of a present day advertising executive who travels back in time and meets the Knight of the Doleful Countenance.
escultura de figura humana
figure sculpture
The author examines the background to Ireland's public memorials (crosses, obelisks, cenotaphs and figure sculptures) to those who died in World War I.
figura de ánfora
hourglass figure
The stereotypic female hourglass figure has often been attributed to sexual selection.
figura de cartón
cardboard cutout
The one thing which takes the biscuit is the fact they use a cardboard cutout which is strapped upon another actor's body.
figura de cera
waxwork
She has become so popular in just in two years that eight of her waxworks have been unveiled at Madame Tussauds museums worldwide.
figura decorativa
figurehead
Brodetsky is portrayed here as an active determinant of the tone of the Zionist struggle & not merely as a figurehead.
figura de guitarra
hourglass figure
The stereotypic female hourglass figure has often been attributed to sexual selection.
figura geométrica
geometric shape
geometric pattern
His writings are filled with references to mysticism relating religious concepts to darkness, geometric shapes, and cruciform imagery.
The ease with which thin cigar-box cedar could be cut contributed to the proliferation of complex geometric patterns combining many different shapes.
figura recortada
cutout [cut-out]
The aim of the scheme is to organise a central pool of library displays (posters, polystyrene cutouts, mobiles, letter sets etc.) = El objetivo de este sistema de clasificación es organizar un fondo común central de objetos utilizados en las exposiciones de la biblioteca (posters, recortables de poliestireno, juguetes móviles colgantes, juegos de letras, etc.).
figura recortada de cartón
cardboard cutout
The one thing which takes the biscuit is the fact they use a cardboard cutout which is strapped upon another actor's body.
figura retórica
figure of speech
trope
The same spelling may arise by a figure of speech such as metonymy or synecdoche, in which we use part of a description to mean the whole = La misma ortografía puede ocurrir en las figuras retóricas como, por ejemplo, la metonimia o el sinécdoque, en donde utilizamos parte de una descripción para referirnos al todo.
The most familiar trope is that of 'the active audience', a terme which is used often in relevant literature.
genio y figura hasta la sepultura
old habits die hard
It's become painfully obvious to me that old habits die hard, and I'll be honest - it scares the hell out of me.
