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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"
2.
Characterized by honesty and fairness.  Synonym: straight.  "A square deal"
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



... Reinsberg, to the Town, to the Schloss, he crosses the esplanade, the moat; sees what we know, beautiful square Mansion among its woods and waters;—and almost nothing that we do not know, except the way the moat-bridge is lighted: "Bridge furnished," he says, "with seven Statues representing the seven Planets, each ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. X. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--At Reinsberg--1736-1740 • Thomas Carlyle
... boys that whoop and run in each yard and square, a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days, and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
... of the way I've been treated. I've had a square enough deal. The trouble is with me. I want to know whether I ought to ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... Captain-General, did not appear at the head of his victorious cohorts, still the excitement had increased. The friars who were accustomed to frequent Quiroga's bazaar did not put in their appearance, and this symptom presaged terrific cataclysms. If the sun had risen a square and the saints appeared only in pantaloons, Quiroga would not have been so greatly alarmed, for he would have taken the sun for a gaming-table and the sacred images for gamblers who had lost their camisas, but for ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... poor thing got lost and wandered about for an hour before it could find its way back again. There's a flight of stairs for you! and everything else in the house was just as queer. There were large rooms and small rooms, long rooms and square rooms; there were cupboards everywhere, you never saw so many cupboards in your life. Some close to the floor so that you bumped your head in looking into them, others so high up in the wall that nothing short of a step-ladder could reach them; cupboards in ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards


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