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Definition: Figuring |
FiguringNoun1. Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "figuring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | In wood, markings(often forming patterns)produced on cut surfaces according to the proportion, arrangement and direction of the various wood elements and tissues, and/or variations in the natural colour. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: FiguringSynonyms: calculation (n), computation (n), reckoning (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Figuring |
| Specialty definitions using "figuring": alhambra quilt ♦ computations ♦ Micro Channel Architecture. (references) |
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Screenplays | Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom (Starship Troopers; writing credit: Edward Neumeier. Based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein.) Now that'd take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,753. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond) If you're having problems figuring out your life, watch Dr. Phil (Days of Our Lives; writing credit: Claude-Marcel Richard) Let me tell you something, man. Brothers have started figuring out this ice thing (Canadian Bacon; writing credit: Michael Moore) | |
Lyrics | Is in us figuring it all out (Don't Turn Off The Lights; performing artist: Enrique Iglesias) | |
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 | Fur buyer figuring out his bid on the next lot of muskrat pelts. The auction sale is held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fur buyers figuring out their bid for trapper's muskrats at auction sale in dance hall. Delacroix Island, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | West Danville, Vermont. Mr. Hasings in his general store, figuring up, says, "You can't carry on a business, especially nowadays, without a lot of book work. But whether it is for income tax or making up price lists for cost of living comodities, it is al. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Dennis Miller | The sad truth is, we don't object to the slanted nature of our news because being told how to think is easier than figuring it out for ourselves. |
Phil McGraw | I absolutely love it. I don't like the therapy model that we have in America, but I love figuring out why people do what they do and don't do what they don't. |
Rush Limbaugh | Now, after splitting the dough three ways, and after figuring out the IRS winnings, we calculated how much the winners actually lost. |
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| "Figuring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.31% of the time. "Figuring" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.31% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.69% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "figuring": re-figuring. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "figuring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 出现 (Advent, Appear, Appearance, Appeared, Appearing, figured). (various references) | |
Danish | tekstur (figure, gradation, grade, texture), tegning (design, drawing), korrigering, gaufrering (embossing, gauffering, goffering). (various references) | |
Dutch | tekening in het hout (figure), tekening (design, drawing), gefigureerd (figure), corrigeren (correct). (various references) | |
Finnish | retusointi, oikaisu (correction), kuvio (figure), korjaus (alteration, correction, repair). (various references) | |
French | figure (figure, figures), figuration (figuration), figurant, retouche, moirure (figure), gaufrure, gaufrage, chiffrant. (various references) | |
German | figurierend. (various references) | |
Greek | σχηματογράφημα (embossing, gauffering, goffering), σχηματοτύπωμα (embossing, gauffering, goffering), γκοφράρισμα (embossing, gauffering, goffering, watering), μορφή,σχήμα (figure), επισκευή (refit, repair), διόρθωση (amendment, correction, emendation, fixing, rectification). (various references) | |
Italian | figura (diagram, figure, form, guise, illustration, image, person, picture, representation, shape), ritocco (finishing touch, touch up), marezzatura (moire), effetto (action, consequence, effect, force, impression, operation, purpose, result, sequel), disegno (aim, design, drawing, outline, pattern, picture, plan, scheme, sketch, tracery). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 算 (checking, doing again). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はさ" (bankruptcy, checking, doing again). (various references) | |
Korean | 계산 (Calculation, Computation, Compute, Computing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iguringfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | retoque (retouch), gofragem (embossing, gauffering, goffering, graining, watering), gofradura (embossing, gauffering, goffering), desenho da madeira (figure), desenho (design, designing, draft, draftsmanship, draught, draughtsmanship, illustration, lithograph, litho-print, picture, plan, print, scale, scheme, tracing). (various references) | |
Spanish | veteado (broken stripe, figure, figure of wood, flamy, mapping, mottled, quilted, roe figure, roe grain, streaking, veining mapping), estampado (impressed, pattern, pressing, print, printed, printing, stamping, tight), estampación (tooling). (various references) | |
Swedish | flammighet (figure), korrigering (amendment). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "figuring": configuring, disfiguring, outfiguring, prefiguring, reconfiguring, refiguring, transfiguring. (additional references) | |
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"Figuring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Figuig, fueguino, Pigorini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "figuring" (pronounced fi"gyering) |
| 7 | f i" g y er i ng | configuring, disfiguring. |
| 4 | -y er i ng | lawyering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-g-i-i-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: firing, urging. | |
-3 letters: fungi, iring, ruing, unrig. | |
-4 letters: firn, frig, frug, girn, grig, grin, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-5 letters: fig, fin, fir, fug, fun, fur, gig, gin, gnu, gun, rif, rig, rin, rug, run, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-g-i-i-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: refiguring. | |
+3 letters: configuring, disfiguring, outfiguring, prefiguring, unforgiving. | |
+4 letters: centrifuging, lifeguarding. | |
+5 letters: reconfiguring, transfiguring. | |
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