square English
Noun
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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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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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(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
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Shaped like a (the polygon).
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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.
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Honest; straightforward.
- square dealing
Fair.
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- to make or leave the accounts square
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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
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* 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
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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
- 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.
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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.
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(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)
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Adjective
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Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
- The result of division by zero is undefined .
Antonyms
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