(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. / (chiefly US) To come to understand. / To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. / (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.

A drawing or diagram conveying information. / The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

(manner) In a figurative manner. / Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of figure / (by ellipsis) It figures.

plural of figure

An actor or dancer in the background lacking an aural presence.

plural of figurant

plural of figuring

Having a determinate form.

in a figural manner