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Roundabout vs Squire - What's the difference?

roundabout | squire |

As nouns the difference between roundabout and squire

is that roundabout is (chiefly|uk|new zealand|and|australia) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island while squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight or squire can be (obsolete) a ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.

As an adjective roundabout

is indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.

As a verb squire is

to attend as a squire.

roundabout

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
  • * 1896 , , From Whose Bourne , ch. 9:
    • [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
  • * 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 17:
    • "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
  • * 2001 Dec. 3, , " Rather Reports Another War," New York Times (retrieved 3 April 2014):
    • Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
  • * 2011 , Golgotha Press (ed.), 50 Classic Philosophy Books , ISBN 9781610425957, (Google preview):
    • Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
  • Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
  • * 1706 , , Of the Conduct of the Understanding , item 3.3:
    • The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.

    Derived terms

    * roundaboutly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, UK, New Zealand, and, Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
  • (chiefly, British) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
  • A fairground carousel.
  • A detour
  • A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

    • Derived terms

    * mini-roundabout

    Synonyms

    * (road junction) traffic circle, rotary

    See also

    * swings and roundabouts

    squire

    English

    (wikipedia squire)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
  • A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
  • A male attendant on a great personage.
  • A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
  • (UK, colloquial)

    • Verb

    (squir)
  • To attend as a squire
    • (Chaucer)
  • To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
    • to squire a lady
    (Goldsmith)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) See square.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
  • * 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
    • But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
    • do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
  • *
    • as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
  • * 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
    • twelve foot and a half by the squire .

    Anagrams

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