square
IPA: skwˈɛr
noun
- (geometry) A polygon with four 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.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- (printing) 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.
- (figuratively, obsolete) 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.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- (1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- (Britain) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- (real estate) 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.
- (roofing) 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.
- (academia) A mortarboard.
- (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
- (slang) Cigarette.
- (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
- (slang, MLE) A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A surname.
- (colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal. [(idiomatic) A (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.]
verb
- (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
- (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- (transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
- (obsolete) 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.
- (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
adjective
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- (nautical) 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
- (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
- (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- (automotive) Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
adverb
- Directly.
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Examples of "square" in Sentences
- She lived in a square room.
- The square is elliptical in shape.
- The outline of the square is traced.
- It hits the nail squarely on the head.
- The echinus is convex and the abacus is square.
- The Belpaire firebox is the square shape in front of the cab.
- The 10 cent was scallop shaped, whilst the 15 cent was square.
- That is, the tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square.
- Five squares arranged in the shape of a trapezoid are also the same.
- II. i.30 (23,1) [But they do square] [To _square_ here is to quarrel.
- The seats may follow the same staggered square shape of the parapet wall.
- Just a block from Scanton's main square is the headquarters of Joe Sestak, Toomey's Democratic opponent.
- Population in 1860, remaining the same per Population in 1860, remaining square mile, if area equal to that of South the same per _square mile_, if
- Just south of Patzcuaro's main square is an outdoor market, itself a virtual Wal-Mart, where shoppers can find everything from avocados and mangoes to extension cords and pirated DVDs.
- Here's the Zocalo or main square from the roof-top restaurant of a hotel (the location in the past few weeks of a Spencer Tunick nude photo shoot and a free Shakira concert which drew 210,000 people) --
- A square, a circle, a triangle, or any other form but that of an _oblong square_, would be eminently incorrect and unmasonic, because such a figure would not be an expression of the symbolic idea which is intended to be conveyed.
- The square in square is going to be harder to work with, as there are several places where there is just no seam allowance beyond the points; I'll be forced to chop some of them off when adding the border, though hopefully not too many.
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores.
- Now observe, in the ornament close to the eye, you had _six figures_ and a whole wreath of roses in the space of _a foot and a half_ square; but in the ornament sixty feet from the eye, you have now only ten or twelve large _leaves_ in a space of _eight feet square_! and note also that now there is no attempt whatsoever at the refinement of line and finish of edge which there was in the other example.