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Definition: TO FIGURE OUT |
TO FIGURE OUT1. To solve; to compute or find the result of. |
Crosswords: TO FIGURE OUT |
| Specialty definitions using "TO FIGURE OUT": Busting you out, Busy Beaver ♦ plokta, Project Guardian ♦ recompile the world. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's what you've got to figure out. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) You're just going to have to figure out what it wants. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard) I'm trying to figure out who or what Melissa was taping when she disappeared. (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe) We have to figure out a way to get them in the same room so they can work it out. But how? (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Might have anyhow if I wasn't tryin' to figure out what that fella's got on his head. (El Dorado; writing credit: Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | Trying to figure out this life (I'm With You; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) Just try to figure out what all this is for (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) A little mystery to figure out (Something To Talk About; performing artist: Bonnie Raitt) Ah, to figure out just what I'm gonna do (Back 2 good; performing artist: Matchbox 20) I'm trying to figure out just what to do (I Want You Back; performing artist: 'N Sync) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Uncle Sam trying to figure out how to beat an "atomic power" bomb into a plow. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figure out his year's earnings). California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His fingers went down to try to figure out the intricacies of the buttoning of his fly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sometimes people use statistics to try to figure out their chances of being cured. (references) | |
Children often conspire to figure out what is going on. Pieces of information are gathered, pooled, and analyzed. (references) | ||
Business | The consumer market is faced with trying to figure out which provider in fact offers the lowest price. (references) | |
Economic History | Israel | It is advisable to seek advice from a respected law firm and accounting firm when trying to figure out tax liabilities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rudolph Giuliani | I see myself as me. I mean, I'm a direct person. I tell you what I think. I'm an honest person. And I just see myself as me. And then everybody else has to figure out what my image is. |
Rush Limbaugh | There are people who are seriously going to try to figure out a way to tax the way you live if they don't approve of it, making your business their business in a condescending sort of way. |
Tim McGraw | We have an extended family. We're trying to figure out how to keep everybody's name straight with our kids. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TO FIGURE OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | ausrechnen (calculate, figure out, reckon, work out). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | kiszámít (compute, figure out, to calculate, to compute, to figure up, to tally, to work out), kigondol (cogitate, conceive, devise, excogitate, think out, to cogitate, to contrive, to cook up, to design, to devise, to father, to figure up, to think out), kiókumlál (to figure up, to pick out). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay igurefay outay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-o-o-r-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: outfigure. | |
-3 letters: reoutfit. | |
-4 letters: footier, foregut, goofier, goutier, guttier, outfire, tuftier, turgite. | |
-5 letters: figure, fitter, foetor, footer, footie, forego, forget, forgot, future, goiter, goitre, gooier, grotto, gutter, outfit, rotgut, titfer, tooter, touter, tufter. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 46 49 47 55 52 45 4F 55 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01001001 01000111 01010101 01010010 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   F I G U R E   O U T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0046 0049 0047 0055 0052 0045 004F 0055 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544924043415552392495554 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Spoken 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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