Reject vs Figured - What's the difference?
reject | figured |
To refuse to accept.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
(figure)
(lb) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
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Adorned with a figure or figures.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p.446:
*:Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.