Fight, n.
- 1. Combat, battle, conflict, contest, struggle, engagement, encounter, action, affair, brush, fray, affray,
mêlée.
- 2. Affray, fray, personal encounter, turn at fisticuffs.
- 3. Broil, riot, mêlée, affray, row (colloq.).
- 4. Fighting temper, spirit, resistance, disposition to struggle.
Fighter, n. Combatant, warrior, See champion.
Fighting, n. Contention, strife, quarrel, warfare, warring.
Figment, n. Invention, fiction, fabrication, fable.
Fig-pecker, n. (Ornith.) See fig-eater.
Figurative, a.
- 1. Typical, representative, emblematical.
- 2. Tropical, metaphorical.
- 3. Flowery, florid, ornate.
Figure, n.
- 1. Form, shape, conformation, configuration, outline, tournure.
- 2. Image, likeness, effigy, representation.
- 3. Appearance (as respects action or conduct).
- 4. Distinguished appearance.
- 5. Design (on cloth, paper, etc.), pattern.
- 6. (Geom.) Diagram, drawing.
- 7. (Rhet.) Metaphor, trope, image, metaphorical term or expression.