Square vs Car - What's the difference?
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(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.
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An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
* Addison
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A cell in a grid.
(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.
(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
* Shakespeare
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 144:
(slang) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s
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(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
(real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
(academia) A mortarboard
(colloquial, US) A square meal.
A pane of glass.
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
* Dryden
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
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Shaped like a (the polygon).
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, chapter=1 Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
Honest; straightforward.
Fair.
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(senseid)(slang) Socially conventional; boring.
(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
hearty; vigorous
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
To resolve.
To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
* Milton
(mathematics) Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a with the same area as.
(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
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(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
* Shakespeare
To take a boxing attitude; often with up'' or ''off .
To form with four sides and four right angles.
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
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(nautical) To place at right angles with the keel.
(dated) A wheeled vehicle, drawn by a horse or other animal.
A wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation; a motorcar or automobile.
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, chapter=1 (rail transport, chiefly, North America) An unpowered unit in a railroad train.
(rail transport) an individual vehicle, powered or unpowered, in a multiple unit.
(rail transport) A passenger-carrying unit in a subway or elevated train, whether powered or not.
A rough unit of quantity approximating the amount which would fill a railroad car.
The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.
The passenger-carrying portion of certain amusement park rides, such as Ferris wheels.
The part of an airship, such as a balloon or dirigible, which houses the passengers and control apparatus.
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(sailing) A sliding fitting that runs along a track.
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, passage=On boats 25 feet or more, it is best to mount a mast car and track on the front of the mast so you can adjust the height of the pole above the deck }}
(uncountable, US) The aggregate of desirable characteristics of a car.
(US) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Image:TOYOTA FCHV 01.jpg, A hydrogen-powered car .
Image:Train wagons 0834.jpg, Freight cars .
Image:RandenTrain.jpg, A self-propelled passenger car .
Image:Ferris wheel - melbourne show 2005.jpg, Ferris wheel cars .
Image:Traveller (sailing).jpg, Car on a sailboat.
Image:ZeppelinLZ127b.jpg, Car of a Zeppelin.
Image:240 Sparks Elevators.jpg, Elevator cars .
(computing) The first part of a cons in LISP. The first element of a list
* Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach , 2000 :
As nouns the difference between square and car
is that square is (geometry) a polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees while car is friend.As verbs the difference between square and car
is that square is to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else while car is (lb).As an adjective square
is shaped like a (the polygon).square
English
Noun
(en noun)- I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.
- There are so many uses for the square , in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. -
The Carpenter's Square
- The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.
- You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square .
- You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
- 64 is the square of 8.
- the brave squares of war
- After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares , during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.
- Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square !
- Enter your account number followed by a square .
- An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square , measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
- 2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — (Macquarie Bank) (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared" , 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]
- 2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares' of living space plus over 13 '''squares''' of decking area on 3 sides and 17 ' squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]
- ''Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
- They of Galatia [were] much more out of square .
- I have not kept my square .
- We live not on the square with such as these.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (polygon) (rare) tetragon * (L-shaped tool) steel square, framing square, carpenter's square * (open space) piazza, plaza * (socially conventional person) see * hash, sharp, (US) pound signDerived terms
* carpenter's square * chi-square * combination square * difference of two squares * four square * framing square * goal square * kid on the square * Latin square * machinist square * magic square * market square * mean square * miter square * on the square * optical square * over square * perfect square * public square * Punnett square * set square * square bashing * squareless * square one * square-pushing * square tab shingle * steel square * T-square * three-square * town square * try square * under square * word squareAdjective
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
- a square corner
- square dealing
- to make or leave the accounts square
- By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.
- a man of a square frame
Synonyms
* above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight * (socially conventional) bourgeoisDerived terms
(Terms derived from the adjective "square") * all square * be there or be square * fair and square * square bracket * square centimetre, square centimeter * square circle * square dancing * square deal * square drive * square flipper/squareflipper * square foot * squarehead * square inch * square leg * square knot * square matrix * square meal * square metre, square meter * square mile * square number * square pyramid * square rod * square root * square sail * square shooter * square-shouldered * square-toed * square wave * square yard * squarely * squareness * T-squaredVerb
(squar)- The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared .
- John can square this question up for us.
- These results just don't square .
- I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
- ''to square our actions by the opinions of others
- Square my trial / To my proportioned strength.
- square the circle
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- No works shall find acceptance that square not truly with the Scripture plan.
- Are you such fools / To square for this?
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- (Spenser)
- to square mason's work
- (Shakespeare)
- the icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales
- to square the yards
Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "square") * square away * square off * square up * square with * square the circleSynonyms
* (to multiply by itself)See also
* (wikipedia "square") * cubic * quadrilateral * rectangle * rhombus 1000 English basic words ----car
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (from .Noun
(en noun)- She drove her car to the mall.
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- The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.
- The 11:10 to London was operated by a 4-car diesel multiple unit
- From the front-most car of the subway, he filmed the progress through the tunnel.
- We ordered five hundred cars of gypsum.
- Fix the car of the express elevator - the door is sticking.
- The most exciting part of riding a Ferris wheel is when your car goes over the top.
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- Buy now! You can get more car for your money.
Synonyms
* (private vehicle that moves independently) auto, motorcar, vehicle; automobile (US), motor (British colloquial), carriage (obsolete) * (non-powered part of a train) railcar, wagon * (unit of quantity) carload, wagonload * (passenger-carrying light rail unit) carriage * (part of an airship) gondola, basket (balloons only) * See alsoDerived terms
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* bus * truck * vanEtymology 2
Acronym of c'''ontents]] of the '''a'''ddress part of [[register, '''r egister number . Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.Noun
(en noun)- The elements of a list are the successive cars''' along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the '''car''', the '''car''' of the cdr, the '''car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.
