square
(noun, adjective, verb, adverb)
adjective
1. having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
- a square peg in a round hole
- a square corner
Similar word(s): quadrate, squared, squarish, angular, angulate
2. characterized by honesty and fairness
- a square deal
Similar word(s): honest, honorable, lawful, aboveboard, straightforward, guileless, transparent, straightarrow, straight
3. providing abundant nourishment
- four square meals a day
Similar word(s): wholesome, hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial
4. leaving no balance
- my account with you is now all square
Similar word(s): paid
5. without evasion or compromise
- a square contradiction
Similar word(s): direct, straight, straightforward
6. rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Similar word(s): conventional, straight
Sentences with square as an adjective:
- square metre
- square mile
- square dealing
- I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
- to make or leave the accounts square
- It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
- a man of a square frame
adverb
1. in a straight direct way
- looked him squarely in the eye
- ran square into me
Similar word(s): squarely
2. in a square shape
- a squarely cut piece of paper
- folded the sheet of paper square
Similar word(s): squarely
3. firmly and solidly
- hit the ball squarely
- the bat met the ball squarely
- planted his great bulk square before his enemy
Similar word(s): squarely
noun
1. (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
Similar word(s): foursquare
Definition categories: shape, rectangle
2. the product of two equal terms
- gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
Definition categories: quantity, number
3. an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
Definition categories: location, parcel, tract
4. something approximating the shape of a square
Definition categories: shape, form
5. someone who doesn't understand what is going on
Similar word(s): lame
Definition categories: person, simple, simpleton
6. a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
Definition categories: person, conservative
7. any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
- a checkerboard has 64 squares
Definition categories: man–made, artefact, artifact
8. 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
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with square as a noun:
- There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. - The Carpenter's Square
- You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
- 64 is the square of 8.
- Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
- Enter your account number followed by a square.
- An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
- 2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 [1]2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [2]
- Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
verb
1. make square
- Square the circle
- square the wood with a file
Definition categories: change, form, shape
2. raise to the second power
Definition categories: cognition, multiply
3. cause to match, as of ideas or acts
Definition categories: stative, adapt, adjust, conform
4. position so as to be square
- He squared his shoulders
Definition categories: motion, position
5. be compatible with
- one idea squares with another
Definition categories: stative, agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally
6. pay someone and settle a debt
- I squared with him
Definition categories: possession, settle
7. turn the paddle; in canoeing
Similar word(s): feather
Definition categories: competition, paddle
8. turn the oar, while rowing
Similar word(s): feather
Definition categories: competition, row
Sentences with square as a verb:
- The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
- John can square this question up for us.
- These results just don't square.
- I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
- to square our actions by the opinions of others
- to square mason's work
- to square the yards