'To figure out' definitions:
Definition of 'To figure out'
From: GCIDE
- Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Figured; p. pr. & vb. n. Figuring.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See Figure, n.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- If love, alas! be pain I bear, [1913 Webster]
- No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. [1913 Webster]
- The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. [1913 Webster]
- As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. [1913 Webster]
- Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To prefigure; to foreshow. [1913 Webster]
- In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mus.) (a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. (b) To embellish. [1913 Webster]
- To figure out, to solve; to compute or find the result of.
- To figure up, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To figure out'
- Figurability,
- Figurable,
- Figural,
- Figurant,
- Figurate,
- Figurated,
- Figurately,
- Figuration,
- Figurative,
- Figuratively,
- Figurativeness,
- Figure,
- Figured,
- Figuring,
- To figure up,
- figure out,
- figurer,
- Academy figure,
- Canceled figures,
- Concurring figure,
- Congruent figures,
- Etching figures,
- Figural numbers,
- Figurate counterpoint,
- Figurate descant,
- Figurate numbers,
- Figurative counterpoint,
- Figurative descant,
- Figure caster,
- Figure flinger,
- Figure flinging,
- Figure painting,
- Figure stone,
- Figure weaving,
- Figured bass,
- Inferior figure,
- Interference figures,
- Inverse figures,
- Lay figure,
- Like figures,
- Plane figure,
- Prime figure,
- Reciprocal figures,
- Residual figure,
- Roric figures,
- Significant figures,
- Similar figures,
- Sonorous figures,
- Superior figure,
- To cut a figure,
- Widmanstaumtten figures,
- acoustic figures,
- authority figure,
- father figure,
- figural blindness,
- figure eight,
- figure loom,
- figure of eight,
- figure of merit,
- figure of speech,
- figure skate,
- figure skater,
- figure skating,
- figured counterpoint,
- go figure,
- mother figure,
- public figure,
- significant figure,
- solid figure,
- stick figure,
- terminal figure,
- wax figure,
- Similar rectilineal figures,
- father-figure,
- three-figure,
- Figure-of-eight knot,
- figured-fabric loom,
- three-dimensional figure,
- two-dimensional figure