FIGURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does figured mean? 

• FIGURED (adjective)
  The adjective FIGURED has 1 sense:

1. (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns

  Familiarity information: FIGURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIGURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns

Context example:

my dress is richly figured

Similar:

patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))

 Context examples 

In laboratories on Earth, researchers have figured out how to make protein fibers accumulate more quickly, so they can study the process without waiting so long.

(Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's, NASA)

The Moon is a pretty inhospitable place for humans but now scientists have figured out a way to get the Oxygen out of its dirt.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

So, Hausch and his colleagues figured that blocking this protein could be the key to developing drugs to treat a variety of conditions.

(Depression, Obesity, Chronic Pain Could be Treated by Targeting the Same Key Protein, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He had figured it out a score of times.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, researchers believe they have figured out how they do it—by using the Earth's magnetic field as a natural GPS.

(Antarctic seals may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate while hunting, NSF)

Once they figured out how the brain works together at rest, the team compared the data with tests the participants that measured their intellectual and creative ability.

(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"From our experiments and theoretical model, we figured out that surface tension of the fluid is one of the crucial factors promoting the water to get stuck in ear canals," said Baskota.

(Shaking head to free water in ears could cause brain damage in kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Managed care has figured heavily in the national debate over health care.

(Managed Care, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to divalent cadmium ions (Cd2+) is a known cancer risk factor, but the molecular mechanisms responsible for the inappropriate induction of cellular proliferation by cadmium are still being figured out.

(Cadmium Induction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In the 1950s, scientists figured out that a solar wind blows from the sun to the edges of the solar system.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)