square

Plural: squares

Noun

• (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
  • "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
• the product of two equal terms
  • "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
• an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
• something approximating the shape of a square
• someone who doesn't understand what is going on
• a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
• any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
  • "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
• a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
  • "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"
• A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
• Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
• A cell in a grid.
• Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
• A square piece, part, or surface.
• Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
• The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
• Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
• A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
• Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
• A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
• An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
• An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
• A true measure, standard, or pattern.
• An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
• An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
• A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
• The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
• A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
• A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
• A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.
• The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
• The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
• A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 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.
• A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
• A mortarboard.
• Ellipsis of square meal.
• Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
• The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
• The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
• The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
• Cigarette.
• A vat used for fermentation.
• A well-defined torso.

Verb

Verb Forms: squared, squaring, squares

• To make something square; to settle or align.
• make square
  • "Square the circle"
  • "square the wood with a file"
• raise to the second power
• cause to match, as of ideas or acts
• position so as to be square
  • "He squared his shoulders"
• be compatible with
  • "one idea squares with another"
• pay someone and settle a debt
  • "I squared with him"
• turn the paddle; in canoeing
• turn the oar, while rowing
• To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
• To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
• To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
• To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
• To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
• To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
• To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
• 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 square with the same area as.
• To tile (completely fill) with squares.
• To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
• To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
• To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
• To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
• 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.
• To hold a quartile position respecting.

Adjective

• Having four equal sides and four right angles; fair.
• having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
  • "a square peg in a round hole"
  • "a square corner"
• characterized by honesty and fairness
  • "a square deal"

Adjective Satellite

• providing abundant nourishment
  • "four square meals a day"
• leaving no balance
  • "my account with you is now all square"
• without evasion or compromise
  • "a square contradiction"
• rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

Adverb

• in a straight direct way
  • "looked him squarely in the eye"
  • "ran square into me"
• in a square shape
  • "a squarely cut piece of paper"
  • "folded the sheet of paper square"
• firmly and solidly
  • "hit the ball squarely"
  • "the bat met the ball squarely"
  • "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"

Adj

• Shaped like a square (the polygon).
• Forming a right angle (90°).
• Forming a right angle (90°).
• Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
• Forming a right angle (90°).
• Forming 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.
• Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
• Even; tied
• Socially conventional; boring.
• In line with the batsman's popping crease.
• Solid, decent, substantial.
• Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
• Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.

Adv

• Directly.

Examples

• 64 is the square of 8.
• A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.
• a man of a square frame
• a square corner
• a square of glass
• 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.
• Enter your account number followed by a square.
• Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
• He had to square his tiles before he could find a valid word.
• His Words With Friends strategy was always square and fair, no tricky plays.
• I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
• I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
• It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
• John can square this question up for us.
• square dealing
• square mile
• square the circle
• Squares cannot be easily matched by regular expressions.
• The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
• The foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.
• The sides were square at the end of the half.
• These results just don't square with what we expected.
• to make or leave the accounts square
• to square mason's work
• to square our actions by the opinions of others
• to square the yards
• Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
• You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.

Synonyms

feather, foursquare, hearty, lame, public square, satisfying, second power, solid, square toes, square up, squarely, straight, straightforward, substantial, L7, above board, basic bitch, bourgeois, hash, mainstreamer, mainstreamist, muggle, mundane, normal, normalfag, normaloid, normie, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, orthogonal, perpendicular, piazza, place, plaza, pound sign, sharp, square

Antonyms

crooked, round, oblique, out of square, racked, square root

Related Words

cubic, quadrilateral, rectangle, rhombus

Anagrams of square