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verb

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

... figure out just what's the Lord's will when a child has upset a kettle of scalding water on to himself," and as she spoke Jane darned more excitedly. "Mrs. Fogg knows well enough she hadn't ought to have left that baby alone in the kitchen with the stove, even if she did see ...

— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... back, his ardor somewhat chilled to find his quarry so near. Perhaps it was better to figure out just what he was going to say before he tackled the boss. Deciding that he could plan better in the open air, he walked unsteadily to the swinging doors and staggered across the street. There he leaned against the bulkhead and looked back at ...

— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... every Christian's conception of his Lord—history, experience and reflection. Jesus is to him a figure out of the past, a force in the present, and a fact in his view of the universe. Whether we be discussing the Christ of Paul, or of the Nicene theologians, or of some thoughtful believer today, we must allow for the memory of the Man of Nazareth handed down from those who knew Him ...

— Some Christian Convictions - A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking • Henry Sloane Coffin

... dead serious. I'm sticking right in the line of fire until you figure out a way to stay alive ...

— The Deadly Daughters • Winston K. Marks

... the census of the United States not one man in twenty thousand attains the age of one hundred years. If we figure out carefully from these statistics, we find the average is only about one-third of ...

— How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions • S. S. Curry

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