[
US
/ˈskwɛɹ/
]
[ UK /skwˈeə/ ]
[ UK /skwˈeə/ ]
VERB
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be compatible with
one idea squares with another - turn the oar, while rowing
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position so as to be square
He squared his shoulders -
make square
Square the circle
square the wood with a file -
pay someone and settle a debt
I squared with him - raise to the second power
- cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
ADJECTIVE
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leaving no balance
my account with you is now all square -
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
a square corner
a square peg in a round hole -
providing abundant nourishment
a hearty meal
four square meals a day
ate a substantial breakfast
good solid food -
without evasion or compromise
he is not being as straightforward as it appears
a square contradiction -
characterized by honesty and fairness
a square deal
straight dealing - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
NOUN
- something approximating the shape of a square
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(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 -
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 formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
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the product of two equal terms
gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
nine is the second power of three - an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
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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 - someone who doesn't understand what is going on
ADVERB
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firmly and solidly
hit the ball squarely
planted his great bulk square before his enemy
the bat met the ball squarely -
in a straight direct way
ran square into me
looked him squarely in the eye -
in a square shape
folded the sheet of paper square
a squarely cut piece of paper
How To Use square In A Sentence
- 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. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
- BigshoeBazaar is an online cash and carry wholesaler for hundreds of small shoe stores across the country and is using a single 25,000 square feet warehouse, which will be enhanced to 100,000 square feet in a few months, to service shoe stores as far away as Dimapur in Nagaland and Katihar in Bihar. 'Hyper Growth' Returns To India's E-Commerce Sector
- The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
- Cppd crystals are smaller rods, squares, or rhomboids and are difficult to identify with light microscopy.
- There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
- The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
- Before reaching the main square, the vehicle swerved left and entered a narrow side street filled with people, most of them in uniform. Somewhere East of Life
- The market opened 100 booths selling South Korean clothes on 2,600 square meters of floor last August.
- The filler is on top of the box on a small square plate just in front of the hand brake drum.