English Dictionary

figure

/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ/

verb

(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.

I need to figure out how much money I have left.

意味（1）

(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.

意味（2）

(chiefly US) To come to understand.

I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.

意味（3）

To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.

意味（4）

(chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.

It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.

It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.

意味（6）

(obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.

If love, alas! be pain; the pain I bear, / No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.

意味（7）

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.

意味（8）

(obsolete) To indicate by numerals.

As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

意味（9）

To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

whose white vestments figure innocence

意味（10）

(obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.

His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death,

His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death, And in their ſmoothneſſe, amitie and life:

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

(music) To embellish.