| 单词 | to figure out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto figure out (a) intransitive. To use figures in arithmetic. Also transitive: to figure up (also with down): to reckon up with figures; to reckon, calculate, understand, ascertain. Also with object clause, and absol., esp. in colloquial phrase it (or that) figures, it is reasonable, likely, or understandable; it makes sense (originally and chiefly U.S.). to figure out: see 15c. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > be intelligible [verb (intransitive)] to make sense1554 connect1753 it (or that) figures1854 click1916 to add up1942 jive1943 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > calculate or solve [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE calcule1377 numbera1382 accounta1387 casta1400 calk1401 computate1449 suppute?a1475 reckona1513 to cast up1539 yield1542 supputate1555 practise?a1560 calculate1570 compute1579 work1582 quantulate1610 resolve1613 find1714 to work out1719 solve1737 to figure out1854 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic > do arithmetic [verb (intransitive)] cipher1530 count1588 arithmetizea1658 to do one's sums1818 sum1838 figure1854 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic > treat arithmetically [verb (transitive)] state1657 cipher1825 to figure up1854 arithmeticize1878 arithmetize1892 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] talec897 ween971 takec1175 weigha1200 deem?c1225 judge?c1225 guessc1330 reta1382 accounta1387 aretc1386 assize1393 consider1398 ponder?a1400 adjudgec1440 reckonc1440 peisec1460 ponderate?a1475 poisea1483 trutinate1528 steem1535 rate?1555 sense1564 compute1604 censure1605 cast1606 cense1606 estimate1651 audit1655 state1671 balance1692 esteem1711 appraise1823 figure1854 tally1860 revalue1894 lowball1973 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) iii. 52 He wrote and figured well. 1865 Congress. Globe 9 Feb. 671/3 I have not figured the number of square miles that there will be. 1884 Bread Winners 245 I'll figure it all up and take my pay. 1891 Fur, Fin & Feather Mar. 170 By this time Sagebrush and I had got the whole thing figured down pretty fine in our own minds. 1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 633/1 Only this morning I was figuring that the work should bring us enough to put all straight and sow next year again. 1913 N.Y. Evening Post 8 Sept. 1/6 Yale men figure that the bones have lain where found from 5,000 to 20,000 years. 1935 R. Stout League of Frightened Men xiii. 155 I couldn't figure the runt at all. 1947 R. Allen Home Made Banners iii. 18 Figure I might as well sign up tomorrow and get it over with. 1952 B. Wolfe Limbo (1953) iv. 213 That figures, all right... It's kind of a startling idea, but it figures. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. iii. 10/4 Everyone has to figure her own way. 1969 C. Watson Flaxborough Crab iii. 33 ‘She's not complained to us.’ ‘That figures.’ 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 40/4 As Champlain's party cut a wide swath through these parts, it figures that a calling card was left behind in the naming of a lake. to figure out 15. to figure out. extracted from figurev.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [verb (transitive)] > make a dream appear to someone > of sleep to figure out1602 society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)] > obscurely obumbrate1632 to figure out1721 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)] forecomea1300 to say beforec1384 signifyc1384 pretendc1425 prefigurec1429 preostendc1429 prefigurate1530 prefigurate1530 adumbrate1537 promise1556 premonstrate1562 foresignify1565 presignify1570 shadow1574 foreshadow1577 presage1583 fore-run1590 presign1590 fore-read1591 figure1595 type forth, out1596 fore-point1601 foreshow1601 prophesy1608 foretella1616 foretypea1618 forebode1656 harbingera1657 pretypify1658 pretype1659 forespeak1667 to figure out1721 forecast1883 favour1887 precourse1888 precursea1892 1602 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph iii. ii No Time..for me to..leave for Sleep to figure out the rest. 1721 R. Keith tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquy of Soul xiii, in tr. Thomas à Kempis Select Pieces II. 207 If.. thou dost figure out by such a Document..somewhat..both just and reasonable. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] depaint?c1225 paintc1275 figurec1380 resemblea1393 portraya1398 represent?a1425 impicture1523 portrait1548 shadow1553 to paint forth1558 storize1590 personate1591 limn1593 propound1594 model1604 table1607 semble1610 rendera1616 to paint out1633 person1644 present1649 to figure out1657 historize1668 to fancy out1669 to take off1680 figurate1698 refer1700 display1726 depicture1739 depict1817 actualize1848 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility i. 59 He never..refused to suffer himself to be painted or figured out in a Statue. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 490 The Emperor..holds a Globe in his hand, to figure out the Earth. c. To work out (a sum) by means of figures; more widely, to estimate or calculate; hence, to work out, make out. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major iv. 41 As I said before, I'm stump'd about that Bank of U.S.; and I want you to help me figure it out. 1873 C. H. Smith Bill Arp's Peace Papers 32 Matthy Mattiks nor his daddy couldn't figger out how long it will take you to get through accordin to your feebul progress. 1884 Punch 15 Mar. 125/1 Whitewash..on which you could..figure out a sum. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xlvii We took a couple of days figuring it out at the Hollow. Starlight had a map, and we plotted it out, and marked all the stages which could be safely made. 1902 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant i. 5 You can't have to be very bright to figure out which one started the demand. 1903 N.Y. Sun 1 Nov. 5 The telegraph lines began to have trouble, and for a while the experts couldn't figure out what was the matter. 1905 Smart Set Oct. 17/2 ‘I'll figure it out after a while,’ he said. ‘It ain't exactly worryin' me sick yet.’ 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 12 Now, this is how I figured it out. 1919 H. Jenkins John Dene of Toronto x. 156 I don't seem to be able to figure things out here as I did at T'ronto. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 87 I figured it out that he was staring at the top of the old gumtree opposite. d. intransitive. To step out and perform a figure in dancing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [verb (intransitive)] > figures figure1744 to figure out1753 braid1813 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 15 When 'twas her Turn to figure out, souse she flapp'd on her Back. < as lemmas |
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