Verb
(transitive) To account for or rely on a particular fact or notion; to calculate (something) using a set of facts.
I'll figure on nine people for lunch tomorrow.
(transitive) To plan or expect (something).
I figure on meeting her after lunch tomorrow.
I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed. Sherman Alexie
Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward. Wendell Phillips
We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One. Hans Frank
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable. William Ernest Henley
A cousin to the Hartmann whistle is shown in the figure on the right, the Galton whistle. Source: Internet
A cross-section through the middle of the whistle is shown in the figure on the right. Source: Internet