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Definition of Figure out
1. Verb. Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of. "He could not work the math problem"
Generic synonyms: Understand
Entails: Reason
Specialized synonyms: Answer, Resolve, Riddle, Strike, Guess, Infer, Answer, Break
Derivative terms: Solution, Solvent, Solver, Solving, Workable
Definition of Figure out
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To calculate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Figure Out
Literary usage of Figure out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"So it's not cost-effective for some big corporation to figure out how to use or
sell these—so what? It's not cost-effective for some big dumb record label ..."
2. Growing Readers: Units Of Study In The Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"You know how for the last week or so we've been learning about the strategies or
tools that readers can use to help them figure out the tricky parts of ..."
3. The Navy Seal Nutrition Guide by Patricia A. Deuster (1996)
"figure out Your Fat Allowance Refer back to your Estimated energy needs (EEN)
exercise (Chapter 1, page 6) and write your EEN in the box below. ..."
4. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1916)
"It may be only the simple process of printing a sky into a bald-headed landscape,
or it may be the more complicated task of taking a figure out of one group ..."
5. Balancing Reading & Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English by Mary Cappellini (2005)
"I also reminded them to use strategies to figure out unknown words and add them
... Gabriela and Nayeli both used effective strategies to figure out words, ..."
6. The Public Refuses to Pay: Editiorials from the Boston Herald on the by Frederic Lauriston Bullard (1921)
"TWO YEARS TO figure out THE BACK PAY iT 7 o'clock tomorrow morning a short
passenger train will start from a certain small town in New England to make a ..."
7. Sound Systems: Explicit, Systematic Phonics in Early Literacy Contexts by Anna Lyon, Paula Moore (2002)
"Knowing the vowel pattern in one word can help you figure out other words with
that pattern. U-Controlled Vowels R after a vowel changes its sound (eg, car, ..."
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