Figure and Structure

Figure

Figure noun - The type of body that a person has.

Usage example: Martha has such a slender figure that just about anything looks good on her

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Structure and figure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Structure" instead a noun "Figure".

Nearby Words: figured, figuring, figurine, figuration, fig

Structure noun - The arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form.

Usage example: the basic structure of all those tract houses is the same: basically, a box

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Figure and structure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Figure" instead a noun "Structure".

human	human figure	human structure
similar	similar figure	similar structure
original	original figure	original structure
single	single figure	single structure
Other adjectives: small, actual, real, large, black, main, new, political, military, mysterious, tall, central, skeletal, local, giant.

way

figure way

structure way

Star Scraper: The mega-structure housing the Manifestation Engine has a height exceeding a kilometre: this figure is from an elevator within the structure.

Source: Anime / Vividred Operation
But taxes rose, people started to convert to Islam to get out of paying the jizyah and this caused the collapse of the first Caliphate dynasty as they could not figure out an alternate tax structure.

Source: Useful Notes / Islam
There was a story in EQMM not too long ago that had the structure: It opened with the narrator in prison trying to figure out where things went wrong.

Source: Narrator All Along

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