fig Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
    figure.
    • the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
  2. noun Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
    common fig tree; common fig; Ficus carica.
  3. noun a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
    Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; Libyan Fighting Group; Libyan Islamic Group; Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya.
  4. noun fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

WordNet

Fig noun
Etymology
F. figue the fruit of the tree, Pr. figa, fr. L. ficus fig tree, fig. Cf. Fico.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.
  2. The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors. ✍ The fruit of a fig tree is really the hollow end of a stem, and bears numerous achenia inside the cavity. Many species have little, hard, inedible figs, and in only a few does the fruit become soft and pulpy. The fruit of the cultivated varieties is much prized in its fresh state, and also when dried or preserved. See Caprification.
  3. A small piece of tobacco. U.S.
  4. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt. "A fig for Peter." Shak.
Fig transitive verb
Etymology
See Fico, Fig, n.
Definitions
  1. To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico. Obs.
    When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard. Shak.
  2. To put into the head of, as something useless o contemptible. Obs. L'Estrange.
Fig noun
Definitions
  1. Figure; dress; array. Colloq.
    Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras? Prof. Wilson.

Webster 1913