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figured

/ˈfɪɡəd/

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Canada/ˈfɪɡ(j)ɚd/

figured is the simple past and past participle of figure.

Adjective

figured (comparative more figured, superlative most figured)

  1. Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
    • Figured wood is especially sought after for its distinctive texture.
  2. Adorned with a figure or figures.
    • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01
    • Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 446

Meaning of figure

Verb

figure (third-person singular simple present figures, present participle figuring, simple past and past participle figured)

  1. (US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
  2. (US) To come to understand.
    • I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
  3. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
    • We can figure on running a loss this year.
  4. (US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
    • It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
  5. (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
    • It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554
  6. (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
    • Although now to be met with in botanic gardens everywhere, there is a certain degree of interest attaching to the figure of it in B.M. 3,992 (1843), although that was by no means the first figure published, for Lambert, Sprengel, and Sir W. Hooker had previously figured it.1884 August 16, X. Y. Z., “Brazilian or Maté Tea”, in The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume 27 (New Series), number 1,007, page 451

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Forms of figured

comparativemore figured
superlativemost figured

Origin of figured

From figure + -ed.

Words formed from figured

Phrases with figured

Questions about figured

What does figured mean?
Figured means having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
What is figured the simple past and past participle of?
Figured is the simple past and past participle of figure.
What part of speech is figured?
Figured is an adjective.
How do you pronounce figured?
Figured is pronounced /ˈfɪɡəd/ (UK).

Words near figured in the dictionary

  1. figure-of-4
  2. figure-of-eight
  3. figure-of-eights
  4. figure-of-four
  5. figure-outable
  6. figured
  7. figured away
  8. figured bass
  9. figured basses
  10. figured on
  11. figured out

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