feel vs figure

feel

verb
  • To understand. 

  • To experience an emotion or other mental state. 

  • To search by sense of touch. 

  • To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. 

  • To be or become aware of. 

  • To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. 

  • To seem (through touch or otherwise). 

  • To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. 

  • To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. 

  • To experience an emotion or other mental state about. 

  • To experience the consequences of. 

  • To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. 

noun
  • An act of fondling. 

  • A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch. 

  • A feeling; an emotion. 

  • A vague mental impression. 

  • An intuitive ability. 

  • A vague understanding. 

figure

verb
  • To come to understand. 

  • To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. 

  • To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. 

  • To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. 

  • To enter into; to be a part of. 

  • To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. 

  • To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. 

  • To embellish. 

  • To be reasonable. 

noun
  • A visible pattern as in wood or cloth. 

  • A number, an amount. 

  • A drawing or diagram conveying information. 

  • A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body. 

  • A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment. 

  • The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. 

  • A figure of speech. 

  • The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person. 

  • A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. 

  • A numeral. 

  • A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. 

  • Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. 

  • The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. 

  • A shape. 

  • Any complex dance moveᵂ. 

How often have the words feel and figure occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )