Square
[skweə] or [skwɛr]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; 'a checkerboard has 64 squares'.
(noun.) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.
(noun.) someone who doesn't understand what is going on.
(noun.) the product of two equal terms; 'nine is the second power of three'; 'gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance'.
(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'.
(noun.) something approximating the shape of a square.
(verb.) make square; 'Square the circle'; 'square the wood with a file'.
(verb.) raise to the second power.
(verb.) position so as to be square; 'He squared his shoulders'.
(verb.) pay someone and settle a debt; 'I squared with him'.
(verb.) be compatible with; 'one idea squares with another'.
(verb.) cause to match, as of ideas or acts.
(adj.) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned .
(adj.) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; 'a square peg in a round hole'; 'a square corner' .
(adj.) without evasion or compromise; 'a square contradiction'; 'he is not being as straightforward as it appears' .
(adj.) leaving no balance; 'my account with you is now all square' .
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Definition
(n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.
(n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
(n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
(n.) A square piece or fragment.
(n.) A pane of glass.
(n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(n.) One hundred superficial feet.
(n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
(n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
(n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.
(n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
(n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
(n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
(n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
(n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
(n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
(a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
(a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
(a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
(a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
(a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
(a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
(a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
(a.) 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.
(n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.
(n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
(n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
(n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
(n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
(n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
(n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
(n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
(v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
(v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
(v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Quadrilateral and equi-angular.[2]. Perpendicular, making a right angle.[3]. Just, honest, fair, equitable, upright, exact, equal.[4]. Adjusted, balanced, settled, even.
n. [1]. Four-sided figure (with equal sides and angles), quadrate.[2]. Square number.[3]. Open area (in a city or town).[4]. (Arch.) One hundred superficial feet.
v. a. [1]. Make square.[2]. Regulate, adapt, fit, suit, accommodate.[3]. Adjust, settle, close, balance.[4]. (Arith.) Multiply into itself.
v. n. Suit, fit, accord, harmonize, quadrate, comport, cohere, chime in, fall in.
Checker: Truman
Definition
fitting: true that does equal justice fair honest: even leaving no balance settled as accounts: directly opposed complete unequivocal: solid full satisfying.—n. that which is square: a square figure: a four-sided space enclosed by houses: a square body of troops: the length of the side of any figure squared: an instrument for measuring right angles: (arith.) the product of a quantity multiplied by itself: due proportion order honesty equity fairness.—v.t. to form like a square: to form with four equal sides and angles: (arith.) to multiply by itself: to reduce to any given measure or standard to adjust regulate: (naut.) to place at right angles with the mast or keel.—v.i. to suit fit: to accord or agree: to take an attitude of offence and defence as a boxer.—adj. Square′-built of a square build or shape.—adv. Square′ly in a square form or manner.—ns. Square′-meas′ure a system of measures applied to surfaces of which the unit is the square of the lineal unit; Square′ness.—adj. Square′-pierced (her.) designating a charge perforated with a square opening so as to show the field.—n. Squā′rer one who or that which squares: (Shak.) a fighting quarrelsome person.—adj. Square′-rigged having the chief sails square and extended by yards suspended by the middle at right angles to the masts—opposed to Fore-and-aft.—ns. Square′-root that root which being multiplied into itself produces the given number or quantity; Square′-sail a four-sided sail extended by yards suspended by the middle at right angles to the mast.—adj. Square′-toed.—n. Square′-toes an old-fashioned punctilious person.—adj. Squā′rish.—Square the circle to determine the area of a circle in square measure.—On the square honestly.
Checker: Yale
Examples
- How she had to work and thrum at these duets and sonatas in the Street, before they appeared in public in the Square! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He might have seen his old acquaintance Amelia on her way from Brompton to Russell Square, had he been looking out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I went into the next room, and so saw Rachel again for the first time since we had parted in Montagu Square. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Even the circle, square, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering gloom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He ran across the streets and the great squares of Vanity Fair, and at length came up breathless opposite his own house. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The squares are to enable the player to properly judge the angles of play. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It operates to exclude recognition of everything except what squares up with the fixed end in view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These hundreds of green squares, marked by their black lava walls, make the hills look like vast checkerboards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- While still warm dip porous paper (cut into small squares) in the solution and dry them. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mr. George approaches softly to the bedside, makes his bow, squares his chest, and stands, with his face flushed, very heartily ashamed of himself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The treatment seemed entirely moral and squared very well with the conscience of that community. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had squared himself on the threshold, his hands thrust deep in his pockets. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The letter, which was scrawled in pencil uphill and downhill and round crooked corners, ran thus: 'OLD RIAH, Your accounts being all squared, go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And presently the Oracle stepped out with his eternal spy-glass and squared himself on the deck like another Colossus of Rhodes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was walled three feet above ground with squared and heavy blocks of stone, after the manner of Bible pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Although he squared himself again directly, he expressed a great amount of natural emotion by these simple means. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have been a thoughtless rascal about squaring prices--but come, dear, sit down and forgive me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Old problems like squaring the circle, trisec ting the angle, and doubling the cube, were now attempted in a new spirit and with fresh vigor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But with agriculture began the difficult task of squaring the lunar month with the solar year; a task which has left its scars on our calendar to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study. Plato. The Republic.
- One day the footman found him squaring his fists at Lord Steyne's hat in the hall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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