Square vs Park - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between square and park

is that square is to draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as while park is to enclose in a park, or as in a park.

In soccer terms the difference between square and park

is that square is to make a short low pass sideways across the pitch while park is a pitch; the area on which a match is played.

As an adjective square

is shaped like a square (the polygon).

As a proper noun Park is

{{surname|from=Korean}}, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (박, 朴). The third most common Korean surname.

square

English

Noun

(en noun)

(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.

* (rfdate)

I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.

An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

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

An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.

* Addison

The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.

* (rfdate)

You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square .

A cell in a grid.

You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.

(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.

64 is the square of 8.

(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

* Shakespeare

the brave squares of war

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 144:

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.

(slang) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s

Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square !

(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

Enter your account number followed by a square .

(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

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.

(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.

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]

(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.

''Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.

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

They of Galatia [were] much more out of square .

* Shakespeare

I have not kept my square .

The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

* Dryden

We live not on the square with such as these.

(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.

(Shakespeare)

(lb) .

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 sign

Derived 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 square

Adjective

(er)

Shaped like a (the polygon).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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,

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.

a square corner

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

Honest; straightforward.

square dealing

Fair.

to make or leave the accounts square

(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

By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.

Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

a man of a square frame

Synonyms

* above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight * (socially conventional) bourgeois

Derived 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-squared

Verb

(squar)

To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.

The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared .

To resolve.

John can square this question up for us.

These results just don't square .

To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.

''to square our actions by the opinions of others

* Milton

Square my trial / To my proportioned strength.

(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.

square the circle

(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.}}

(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

* Cowper

No works shall find acceptance that square not truly with the Scripture plan.

(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

* Shakespeare

Are you such fools / To square for this?

To take a boxing attitude; often with up'' or ''off .

(Dickens)

To form with four sides and four right angles.

(Spenser)

To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

to square mason's work

To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

(Shakespeare)

(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

* Creech

the icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales

(nautical) To place at right angles with the keel.

to square the yards

Derived terms

(terms derived from the verb "square") * square away * square off * square up * square with * square the circle

Synonyms

* (to multiply by itself)

park

English

Noun

(en noun)

An area of land set aside for environment preservation and/or informal recreation.

# A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.

#* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

# A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation

#* , chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park , very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.}}

#* 1994 , Robert Ferro,The Blue Star :

I roamed the streets and parks , as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…

# An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.

# (US) A grassy basin surrounded by mountains.

An area used for serious organized purposes.

# (rfc-sense) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together.

# A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

# An area zoned for a particular (industrial or technological) purpose.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

# (soccer) A pitch; the area on which a match is played.

#* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC

, title= Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool , passage=But because of their dominance in the middle of the park and the sheer volume of chances, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce must have been staggered and sickened in equal measure when the visitors took the lead five minutes after the break.}}

(UK) An inventory of matériel.

(Australia, NZ) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.

* 2003 , “Johnny”, Melbourne Blackout'', in Sleazegrinder (editor), ''Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll?s Frontline , page 174,

We got to the 9^th Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro?s car right out the front.

* 2010 , Sandy Curtis, Dangerous Deception , Clan Destine Press, Australia, unnumbered page,

Once they?d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn?t want to be delayed.

* 2011 , Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income! , John Wiley & Sons Australia, unnumbered page,

We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.

Antonyms

* (a piece of ground in or near a city) building, skyscraper, street

Synonyms

* (a piece of ground in or near a city) courtyard, garden, plaza

Derived terms

* amusement park * ballpark * car park * national park * parkade * skatepark * theme park * tank park

References

* “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know , Harper, ISBN 978-0688112707, p 28. *

Verb

(en verb)

To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

You can park the car in front of the house.

I parked the drive heads of my hard disk before travelling with my laptop.

(informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.

Let's park that until next week's meeting.

To bring together in a park, or compact body.

To enclose in a park, or as in a park.

How are we parked , and bounded in a pale. — Shakespeare.

(baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.

He really parked that one.

(slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.

They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked .

(transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

He came in and parked himself in our living room.

Park your bags in the hall.

(finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.

We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.

(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See )

Antonyms

(bring to a halt) (l)

Square vs Park - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between square and park

In soccer terms the difference between square and park

As an adjective square

As a proper noun Park is

square

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