…a number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company…
…said to express the belief that something is amazing or incredible…
…an outline of a horse, human, or other design cut into the turf of a hill, especially in the chalk downs of southern England. The oldest of these (the White Horse at Uffington, Oxfordshire) is prehistoric…
…a dummy or jointed manikin of a human body used by artists, especially for arranging drapery on…
…a type of ancient Greek pottery, originating in Athens in the late 6th century bc, in which figures are outlined and details added in black, and the background is then filled in with black to leave the figures in the red colour of the clay…
…a doll representing a character known for vigorous activity, such as a soldier or superhero…
…a type of ancient Greek pottery, originating in Corinth in the 7th century bc, in which figures are painted in black, details being added by incising through to the red clay background…
…an older man who is respected for his paternal qualities and may be an emotional substitute for a father…
…relating to or denoting the perception of images by the distinction of objects from a background from which they appear to stand out, especially in contexts where this distinction is ambiguous…
…an older woman who is regarded as a source of nurture and support…
…(of a garment) fitting closely to the contours of a woman’s body…
…the sport of skating in prescribed patterns from a stationary position…
…lose (or retain) a slim and attractive bodily shape…
…reach an understanding of a person’s actions, motives, or personality…
…any of a number of characteristic looped or curved figures traced out by a point undergoing two independent simple harmonic motions at right angles with frequencies in a simple ratio…
…each of the digits of a number that are used to express it to the required degree of accuracy, starting from the first non-zero digit…
…an object or movement having the shape of the number eight…
…a numerical expression taken as representing the performance or efficiency of a given device, material, or procedure…
…a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect…
…an object or movement having the shape of the number eight…
…skating on ice as a sport or pastime. Ice skating became a recognized sport in 1876. Skaters are marked for technical and artistic excellence in performing a series of prescribed patterns (figure skating) or a choreographed series of dance moves (ice dancing)…
…skating on ice as a sport or pastime. Ice skating became a recognized sport in 1876. Skaters are marked for technical and artistic excellence in performing a series of prescribed patterns (figure skating) or a choreographed series of dance moves (ice dancing)…
