figure on
Verb
Meaning
(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.
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward.
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.
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.
A cousin to the Hartmann whistle is shown in the figure on the right, the Galton whistle.
A cross-section through the middle of the whistle is shown in the figure on the right.