Word Meanings - FIGURINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.

Related words: (words related to FIGURINE)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• FIGURE
  1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure
• HUMANIFY
  To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• HUMANIZE
  To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• HUMANITARIANISM
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• HUMANISM
  1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
• TERRAPIN
  Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin , native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also potter, slider, and redfender), and
• HUMANISTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• CONTERRANEAN; CONTERRANEOUS
  Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.