Figure and Set up

Figure

Figure verb - To come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration.

Set up and figure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set up" instead a verb "Figure".

Nearby Words: figured, figuring, figurine, figuration, fig

Set up

Set up verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.

Figure and set up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Figure" instead a verb "Set up".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Loads and Loads of Rules Scientists figure out the rules the universe set up, and lawyers try to figure out the rules that we humans set up.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender Set up similarly, but subverted in Duck Dodgers, where Dodgers dresses a woman to fool some guards but they both think "she" is ugly and quite easily figure him out to be a guy.
  • Film / Body of Lies Kudzu Plot: You spend more than half the movie trying to figure out who's trying to set up who, while trying not to be outwitted by the other parties.
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