The Dictionary - #F84 (figure eight to filaria)

Jan 22 2025 35 mins

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I read from figure eight to filaria.

Here is "Figure 8" by They Might Be Giants:

https://youtu.be/DMebRvE9oH0?si=YszEFDYHyvvHomcI

It's helpful that in figure skating you can actually SEE the figure that was made because it's literally etched into the ice. In fact there's a couple great photos of people looking at those in the first link. And those Special figures look REALLY hard to make on ice!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_figures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_figures

"At one time, it was common to use spider silk as a thread" in the Filar Micrometer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filar_micrometer

The word of the episode is "figure of speech".

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/literary-devices/figure-of-speech/

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