Figure
Figure verb - To decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement.
Usage example: let's figure the juice in the pan to be about a cup and just add it to the mix
Gather and figure are semantically related in deduce topic. In some cases you can use "Gather" instead a verb "Figure", when it comes to topics like know.
Common collocations
| monsters | figure monsters | gather monsters |
Both words in one sentence
- He suffered serious injuries trying to gather "Cure Water" to heal his exhausted mother figure Frohze.
Source: Unwanted Assistance -
Sneaking out to Upper Yard to gather Vearth, accepting a gift of roasted almonds from the Skypiean Conis rather than fighting to the death as a Shandoran should, and using her Mantra to figure out where they were hiding the Christmas presents.
Source: Fanfic / This Bites! - It's ultimately revealed that she did this in order to gather the supercomputer-level processing power needed to figure out how to save a bunch of other kids that have been in comas since a past tragedy.
Source: Could Have Avoided This Plot
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Gather and Figure. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/gather
Figure & Gather. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/gather>.
Gather or Figure. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/gather.
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