Square

adjective
skwɜr

Adjective

  • characterized by honesty and fairness

    a square deal

    Similar:Straight
    See also:LawfulHonorableHonest
  • providing abundant nourishment

    four square meals a day

  • without evasion or compromise

    a square contradiction

  • having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle

    a square peg in a round hole

    a square corner

    See also:AngularAngulate
  • leaving no balance

    my account with you is now all square

  • rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

    Similar:Straight

Noun

  • the product of two equal terms

    gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance

    Type of:Number
  • (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:Foursquare
    Type of:Rectangle
  • 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

  • any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles

    a checkerboard has 64 squares

    Type of:ArtefactArtifact
  • a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

    Type of:ConservativistConservative
  • someone who doesn't understand what is going on

    Similar:Lame
    Type of:SimpletonSimple
  • an open area at the meeting of two or more streets

    Type of:ParcelTract
  • something approximating the shape of a square

    Type of:ShapeForm

Verb

  • make square

    square the wood with a file

    Type of:ShapeForm
  • be compatible with

    one idea squares with another

    Type of:CorrespondJibeTally
  • pay someone and settle a debt

    I squared with him

    Type of:Settle
  • position so as to be square

    He squared his shoulders

    Type of:Position
  • turn the paddle; in canoeing

    Similar:Feather
    Type of:Paddle
  • turn the oar, while rowing

    Similar:Feather
    Type of:Row
  • cause to match, as of ideas or acts

    Type of:AdjustConformAdapt
  • raise to the second power

    Type of:Multiply

Adverb

  • firmly and solidly

    hit the ball squarely

    the bat met the ball squarely

    planted his great bulk square before his enemy

    Similar:Squarely
  • in a straight direct way

    looked him squarely in the eye

    ran square into me

    Similar:Squarely
  • in a square shape

    a squarely cut piece of paper

    folded the sheet of paper square

    Similar:Squarely

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