figure out

verb

Definitions

  1. To come to understand

    To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.

    • As soon as I figure out what is wrong with my car, I will fix it.
    • This part of the work, however, would of course come under the head of designing, while the object of this book is to teach you how to figure out the patterns whether you understand anything about designing or not.
    • He remembered the money Gordon was keeping for him, and it was easy to figure out the answers.
  2. To calculate.

    • We'd already figured out that the trip would cost $1,000.
    • Now after you are through with the plan and are ready to figure out the number of brick, take your estimate sheet and do so, following the dimensions you have set down from the plans.

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No curated loop yet for figure out. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA