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Square   /skwɛr/   Listen
Square

noun
1.
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon.  Synonym: foursquare.
2.
The product of two equal terms.  Synonym: second power.  "Gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
3.
An open area at the meeting of two or more streets.  Synonym: public square.
4.
Something approximating the shape of a square.
5.
Someone who doesn't understand what is going on.  Synonym: lame.
6.
A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.  Synonym: square toes.
7.
Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles.
8.
A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles.
adjective
1.
Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle.  "A square corner"  Antonym: round.
2.
Characterized by honesty and fairness.  Synonym: straight.  "A square deal"  Antonym: crooked.
3.
Providing abundant nourishment.  Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial.  "Good solid food" , "Ate a substantial breakfast" , "Four square meals a day"
4.
Leaving no balance.
5.
Without evasion or compromise.  Synonyms: straight, straightforward.  "He is not being as straightforward as it appears"
6.
Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned.  Synonym: straight.
verb
(past & past part. squared; pres. part. squaring)
1.
Make square.  Synonym: square up.  "Square the wood with a file"
2.
Raise to the second power.
3.
Cause to match, as of ideas or acts.
4.
Position so as to be square.
5.
Be compatible with.
6.
Pay someone and settle a debt.
7.
Turn the paddle; in canoeing.  Synonym: feather.
8.
Turn the oar, while rowing.  Synonym: feather.
adverb
1.
In a straight direct way.  Synonym: squarely.  "Ran square into me"
2.
In a square shape.  Synonym: squarely.  "Folded the sheet of paper square"
3.
Firmly and solidly.  Synonym: squarely.  "The bat met the ball squarely" , "Planted his great bulk square before his enemy"



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"Square" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the increase in the metropolis. Last week relief was given to 53,164 indoor, and 35,110 outdoor paupers. The total shows an increase of 2011 over the corresponding week last year. Trafalgar Square pavement is half covered nightly with houseless vagrants, and church steps, benches, and doorways in nearly all parts of London have their complements of destitute people after midnight. Many resort to the parks in the daytime to obtain on the grass the sleep which they are unable to ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 - Volume 1, Number 10 • Various

... apparition. It was a grey Tudor mansion of weather-stained stone, with churchy pinnacles, a strange-looking bright tin roof, and, towering around the sides and back of its grounds a lofty walk of pine trees, marshalled in dark, square, overshadowing array, out of which, as if surrounded by a guard of powerful forest spirits, the mansion looked forth like a resuscitated Elizabethan reality. Its mien seemed to say: "I am not of yesterday, and shall pass tranquilly on into the centuries to come: old traditions cluster ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair

... to walk home. I heard a squeal from the bushes, and here comes a funny little cuss. I liked the look of him from the jump-off, even if his mother did claw delirious delight out of me. He balanced himself on his stubby legs and looked me square in the eye, and he spit and fought as though he weighed a ton when I picked him up—never had any notion of running away. Well, ...
— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... summer in Challis's town house in Eaton Square, whither all the material had been removed two days after that momentous afternoon in ...
— The Wonder • J. D. Beresford

... occupied the archiepiscopal palace, a magnificent building situated in a large square on which the grenadiers of the Imperial Guard bivouacked. This bivouac presented a singular scene. Immense kettles, which had been found in the convents, hung, full of mutton, poultry, rabbits, etc., above ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant


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