0 past simple and past participle of figure --
1 to expect or think that something will happen: --
[ + (that) ] We figured (that) you'd want to rest after your trip.
2 to be, appear, take part, or be included in something: --
They denied that violence and intimidation had figured prominently in achieving the decision.
I'm still figuring my taxes.
This waste is figured variously as dust, ashes, human bodies (found not on the dust-heaps but in the river), rags, bones, and waste paper.
Instead of serving as an attainable goal, it figured as a counterpoint in contrast to the positions the soldiers actually held.
Numeric notation was used to represent pitch long before the appearance of computer music, as in the figured bass5 of the early seventeenth century.
Unfortunately, these specimens were not figured and their description does not allow a precise taxonomic assessment.
Cranidial measurements were made on 11 figured specimens.
It also has to be said that the editorial realization of the figured bass is a disappointment, containing many solecisms.
The genetic code, after all, was just being figured out.
Here a middle-class business man is figured as country gentry and the fox is the culprit for the crime of theft (birds, cheques).
