Figure Out

Definition: Figure Out

Figure Out

Verb

1. Find the solution to (a problem or question):"did you solve the problem?"; understand the meaning of; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Figure Out

Crosswords: Figure Out

Karl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

You ever figure out what Lisa's chairs were and buy them (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego)

Thank you for getting me that date, Mrs. Bush, now all I have to do is figure out how to tell my wife (That's My Bush!; writing credit: Alon Kaplan)

Bottom line, I know my partner was killed by a supernatural being and I think Prue Halliwell can help me figure out who did it. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

You're just going to have to figure out what it wants (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

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)

Will figure out why they get so mad (Wonderful; performing artist: Everclear)

But I could not figure out (I Belong To You; performing artist: Lenny Kravitz)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Almost Cool: You Can Figure Out How to Parent Your Teen (reference)

• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is (reference)

• Figure Out Blue's Clues (Blue's Clues) (reference)

• Figure Out Blues Clues: Ams Proprietary Edition (reference)

• How to Figure Out a Man: The Games Men Play/How to Figure Out a Woman: The Games Women Play/2 Books in 1 Volume (reference)

  (more book examples)

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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.

His fingers went down to try to figure out the intricacies of the buttoning of his fly.

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "figure out": figure out at ♦ To figure out. Additional references.

Albanian

kuptoj (apprehend, catch, comprehend, cotton on, fathom, find, gather, get, grasp, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick out, Pierce, see, see through, sense, take, take in, twig on, understand), gjej (ascertain, assure, be, be present, catch, come across, dig up, discover, distil, distill, divine, fetch, find, find out, get, guess, hit, hunt down, hunt out, hunt up, look out, meet with, obtain, pick out, procure, root out, scare up, search out, trace). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قرر (affirm, be decided, be determined, be resolved to, choose, conclude, condition, decide, destine, determine, dispose, establish, figure, fix, make acknowledge, make confess, make up one's mind, plump for, propose, regulate, resolve, rule, set, settle, state), ‏عرف (acquaint, constitution, convention, custom, define, form, habit, impart, know, know what's what, locate, manners, mores, realize, rule, savvy, see, sort out, tradition, usage, use), ‏إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, find, find out, get wind of, glean, hit, learn, nose, rout, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover, unearth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

решавам (adjudicate, choose, conclude, decide, determine, elect, make up one's mind, resolve, seal, settle, solve, work), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), възлизам (add to, amount, reach, run out, run up, tot up, work out), проумявам (make out, penetrate, see daylight, work out), пресмятам (calculate, compute, figure, figure up, reckon, tally, tot up, value, work, work out), изчислявам (calculate, evaluate, figure, figure on, judge, put, rate, reckon, reckon up, total, value, work out), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Czech

vypoèítat (calculate, compute, itemize, work out), vyřešit (crack, puzzle out, resolve, settle, solve, straighten, unscramble), rozřešit (clear up), pochopit (comprehend, cotton on to, fathom, figure to oneself, get the message, grasp, perceive, realize, take in, understand). (various references)

Dutch

na...gaan. (various references)

French

savoir, résoudre, décider (figure), bien calculer, arriver � comprendre. (various references)

German

herausbekommen (find out, get back, get out, glean, oust, pick up, sound out, to get out, work out), ausrechnen (calculate, reckon, to figure out, work out), ausknobeln (toss for, work out). (various references)

Greek 

βρίσκω την λύση (work out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתור (interpret, solve, unravel), לפע� ח (break a code, decipher, decode, interpret, solve, unravel, unscramble), ל� חש (augur, conjecture, divine, estimate, foretell, guess, predict, surmise). (various references)

Hungarian

vélekedik (to conceive of), kiszámít (compute, to calculate, to compute, to figure out, to figure up, to tally, to work out). (various references)

Indonesian

berkhayal (day-dream). (various references)

Italian

ammontare (amount, bulk, come to, sum). (various references)

Norwegian

forstå (gather, get, grasp, realise, realize, understand). (various references)

Pig Latin

igurefay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

solucionar (decide, remedy, riddle, solve), resolver (choose, compose, conclude, decide, deem, dissolve, find, fix, iron out, mean, nail down, resolve, settle, solve, unravel, unriddle, work out), computar (calculate, compute, count, figure, reckon), calcular (account, appraise, calculate, cast up, cipher, compute, count, cypher, estimate, evaluate, figure, gage, gauge, log, number, rate, reckon), arranjar (accomodate, achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, do up, dress, fare, filibeg, find, fix, fix up, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, remake, schedule, settle, size, square up, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim), adaptar (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, attemper, attune, calculate, fashion, fit out, naturalize, place, proportion, put right, put up, straighten out, suit, tune). (various references)

Russian 

вычислять (calculate, compute, computed, determine, get, rate, reckon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, get, grasp, realize, sense, tumble, twig, understand), izračunati (calculate, figure, integrate, reckon). (various references)

Spanish

resolver para (accommodate, adjust, do, judge, straighten), descifrar (break, break a code, decipher, decode, decrypt, make out, puzzle out, read, unravel, unscramble). (various references)

Swedish

fundera ut (puzzle out), förstås (catch, comprehend, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, realise, see, take, understand), förstå (catch, comprehend, comprehending, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, realize, see, take, understand), räkna ut (cast, count out, think out, work out), begripa (apprehend, comprehend, fathom, grasp, realize, see, seize, understand). (various references)

Turkish

hesaplamak (calculate, check out, cipher, compute, count up, discount, foot, foot up, number, reckon, work out), halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out), çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, detach, disengage, disentangle, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, unfix, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out). (various references)

Ukrainian

усвідомлювати (acknowledge, apperceive, appreciate, be aware of, be conscious of, know, recognize, sense, understand), обчислювати (calculate, compute, cypher, date, determine, numerate). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outfigure.

-2 letters: foregut, goutier, outfire.

-3 letters: figure, forget, future, goiter, goitre.

-4 letters: ergot, erugo, fetor, fogie, forge, forte, fruit, fugio, fugue, gofer, grief, grift, griot, grout, guiro, ofter, ourie, outer, outre, refit, rogue, rouge, route, tiger, togue, trigo, uteri.

-5 letters: ergo, etui, euro, fire, fore, fort, four, fret, frig, frit, froe, frog, frug, fugu, gift, giro.

+1 letter: outfigured, outfigures.

+3 letters: futurologies.