figure
/ˈfɪɡɚ/ verb A2- To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- To come to understand. · I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. · We can figure on running a loss this year.
- To be reasonable or predictable. · It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
- To enter into; to be a part of.
- To represent in a picture or drawing.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
He/she/it figures · Past figured · Past participle figured · -ing form figuring
Verb forms
- Base form
- figure
- He/she/it
- figures
- Past
- figured
- Past participle
- figured
- -ing form
- figuring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But he admired Anne immensely, and was puffed up with pride over the prospect of driving to White Sands with that slim, upright figure beside him.
In an instant—but it was just one instant too late—they resumed their solemn masks as my figure came into view.
Very clearly I could see in my mind’s eye that shattered figure on the floor.
Then the king, who, without our suspecting it, had overheard our conversation, interrupted us by saying, ‘Villefort’—observe that the king did not pronounce the word Noirtier, but, on the contrary, placed considerable emphasis on that of Villefort—‘Villefort,’ said his majesty, ‘is a young man of great judgment and discretion, who will be sure to make a figure in his profession; I like him much, and it gave me great pleasure to hear that he was about to become the son-in-law of the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Méran.
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