English Dictionary

figure

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ/

動詞

アメリカ英語 自動詞 廃用

(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.

日本語の意味

計算する、数学の問題を解く (主に米国英語) / 理解する、気づく (主に米国英語) / 考える、仮定する、推測する / 合理的である、筋が通っている (自動詞として主に米国英語)

I need to figure the sales tax for these items before I check out.

会計する前に、これらの商品にかかる消費税を計算する必要がある。

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, 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.

figures （ present singular third-person ）

figuring （ participle present ）

figured （ participle past ）

figured （ past ）