Figure
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To solve a mathematical problem. To come to understand.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A drawing or representation conveying information. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of human body. A numeral. A number. A shape. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth. A dance figure. A figure of speech.
Example sentence: Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
Pattern
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That from which a copy is madedesign, motif or decoration formed from multiple copies of an original fitted togetherarrangement of objects, facts etc. which has a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationshipa series of steps, repeatedthe quality held in common by a patternin Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, the arrangement of prefixes, suffixes, consonant-doubling, vowels, and stress in a word formed around a consonantal rootA design pattern.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to apply a patternto follow an exampleto fit into a pattern
Example sentence: I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.