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Figure v. t. (past & past part. figured; pres. part. figuring)

To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. "If love, alas! be pain I bear," "No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior."

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. "The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors."

To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. "As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen."

To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. "Whose white vestments figure innocence."

To prefigure; to foreshow. "In this the heaven figures some event."

(Mus.)

(a)

To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

(b)

To embellish.

To figure out, to solve; to compute or find the result of.

To figure up, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.

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Etymology of 'Figure out'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Figure out" Quotes from Famous Books

... children mine are!" thought she, smiling with a mother's pride; and smiling at herself, too, for being so proud of them. "What other children could have made any thing so like a little girl's figure out of snow, at the first trial? Well;—but now I must finish Peony's new frock, for his grandfather is coming to-morrow, and I want the little fellow ...

— The Snow-Image - A Childish Miracle • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... learned before he had gone very many miles that the badly wanted horse was headed in the direction of the McLowery ranch. The McLowery boys were members of the Clanton gang of rustlers and stage-robbers. It did not need a Sherlock Holmes to figure out the probabilities of where that horse was being pastured now. Breckenbridge pressed on to the ...

— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt

... It's the rule, I understand, although it's varied at times by the use of "idiot" instead. But ass was nearer at hand in this case, as we had been talking of carriages and triumphal chariots. It is quite simple to figure out a fourth fact, when you have three known ...

— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg

... "If you're trying to figure out what they are, and what they are not," returned the man, "you've got a hard job on your hands, Jane, and like as not you'll make a mistake in the end. Where's the other niece? Aren't ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne

... I can't just figure out what any man would look like who'd give ninety dollars for an old second-hand war canoe, even if ...

— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock

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