figure in English: A number or an amount written down, or the shape of a person seen from far away. (noun)

Translation

A number or an amount written down, or the shape of a person seen from far away.

Word origin

From Latin figura, meaning a shape or a form, from fingere, to shape something.

Gender

Pluralfigures

sales .

"Figures" here means the numbers in a report.

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Here "figure" is the shape of a person you cannot see well.

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"Figure out" means to work something out or understand it.

number

A word or symbol, like one, two, or three, that tells you how many.

count

To say numbers in order, or to find how many things there are.

guess

To give an answer when you are not sure and have not been told the facts.

shape

The outside form of something, such as round, square, or long.

work

To do a job or use effort to make or finish something.

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