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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'

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"Figure out" Quotes from Famous Books

... been at once cynical and mysterious, was the cause of some speculation on Lowell's part as the agent drove away from the trader's store. Something had happened to put so much of triumph in Talpers's face and speech, but Lowell was not able to figure out just what that something could be. He resolved to keep a closer eye than customary on the doings of the trader, but soon all thoughts of everything save those concerned directly with the murder were banished from his mind when he reached the ...

— Mystery Ranch • Arthur Chapman

... have interested me in those years. At any rate, I know I put as much zeal into this Tono-Bungay as any young lieutenant could have done who suddenly found himself in command of a ship. It was extraordinarily interesting to me to figure out the advantage accruing from this shortening of the process or that, and to weigh it against the capital cost of the alteration. I made a sort of machine for sticking on the labels, that I patented; to this day there is a little trickle of royalties to me from that. I also contrived ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... the collecting was over and the children brought their arks to Mr. Maynard. With Miss Hart to help him, it didn't take very long to figure out the schedule value of each ark-full, and prizes were given to those three whose ...

— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells

... provident skipper kept a supply at hand for use in emergencies. When all hands were finally mustered to quarters, so to speak, there remained on deck only a "master" who could not navigate the ship, a "mate" unable to figure out the day's run, a "carpenter" who did not know how to handle an adze, and some make-believe apprentices "bound" only to outwit the gang. And if in spite of all these precautions an able seaman were pressed, the real master immediately ...

— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... it," Tom vowed. "But first I must figure out a way to make our own craft invisible, so to speak. It's the only way to protect our American crews, Chow, if we hope to do any secret digging ...

— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton

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