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etymology - Meaning of go figure and its origin? - English Language . . . Go figure people—Scott Turow {fr Yiddish gey vays, "go know"} Notwithstanding the "contradictory or astonishing" language in Chapman Kipfer's definition of "Go figure," the example from The Nation seems very much in line with Ayto's observation that the expression is often "used to suggest that the conclusion to be drawn about something is
etymology - What is the history of the phrase figure it out . . . As Andrew Leach points out in his answer, there is a broadening in meaning of to figure out from to work out understand via calculation to its more general meaning This is similar to what happened with the verb to reckon centuries earlier The meaning becomes more figurative—wait, no, less "figurative" :-)
To what extent should figure legends within scientific literature . . . It should provide a succinct conceptual link between figure and prose by drawing attention to the main theme it illustrates that is developed in more detail within the prose Similarly the caption should not repeat unnecessarily any information that is given within the figure (such as the names of the variables already shown on the axes of a
etymology - Origin of the idiom go south - English Language Usage . . . Higher; esp in north of (a figure, cost, etc ): higher than, in excess of Though north and south have related meanings (higher and lower, respectively), they are used in different ways North is usually used in respect to a give figure or amount
Period usage in Figures and Table captions [closed] The usage I'm most familiar with is "Fig 1: a figure" or "Figure 1: a figure" with a colon introducing the caption proper Note the full stop period used when "Figure" is abbreviated This is the output produced by many journal templates I've used (their LaTeX templates, which take care of the figure numbering style automatically)
Comma before as shown in Figure - English Language Usage Stack Exchange These constraints give rise to [a graph with three edges as shown in Figure 1] which implies that it is the three edges that are shown in Figure 1, rather than the (more usual) meaning that the graph is shown in Figure 1
Origin and meaning of from out of left field The difficulty is compounded by the fact that most baseball teams put their fastest sure-handed starting outfielder in center field (because he has the largest amount of ground to cover), and their strongest-armed outfielder in right field (because it is extremely important strategically to limit the number of base runners who successfully go
When do we use an analogy, a metaphor and a figure of speech? Analogies and metaphors are figures of speech, of the sort of figure of speech called "tropes" Analogy is a process involved in the making of certain figures of speech For instance, parables and metaphors both involve analogy, as does the figure of speech called analogy, of course, this fact being somewhat of a truism
expressions - See figure below for besides? - English Language . . . This was evidently the case at the computer magazines where I worked: we never assigned figure numbers to figures, to avoid having the presentation seem unduly regimented, I suppose In such situations you can say "see the figure above," see the figure below," "see the figure at left," or "see the figure at right," as appropriate