transcription, транскрипция: [ fɪgərətɪv, AM -gjər- ]
1.
If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
...an event that will change your route–in both the literal and figurative sense.
≠ literal
ADJ : usu ADJ n
• fig‧ura‧tive‧ly
Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.
ADV : ADV with cl / group , ADV with v
2.
Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way.
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
≠ abstract
ADJ : usu ADJ n