Dictionary Definition
square adj
1 having four equal sides and four right angles
or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square
corner" [ant: round]
2 leaving no balance; "my account with you is now
all square" [syn: square(p)]
3 characterized by honesty and fairness; "a
square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing" [syn: straight]
4 without evasion or compromise; "a square
contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
[syn: square(a),
straightforward]
5 rigidly conventional or old-fashioned [syn:
straight]
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"
[syn: foursquare]
2 the product of two equal terms; "nine is the
second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the
square of the distance" [syn: second
power]
3 an open area at the meeting of two or more
streets [syn: public
square]
4 something approximating the shape of a
square
5 someone who doesn't understand what is going on
[syn: lame]
6 a formal and conservative person with
old-fashioned views [syn: square
toes]
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"
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" adv
1 in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely
in the eye"; "ran square into me" [syn: squarely]
2 with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with
his customers"; "always treated me square" [syn: squarely]
3 in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of
paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square" [syn: squarely]
4 firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely";
"the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square
before his enemy" [syn: squarely]
Verb
1 raise to the second power
2 make square; "Square the circle"; "square the
wood with a file" [syn: square
up]
3 cause to match, as of ideas or acts
4 position so as to be square; "He squared his
shoulders"
5 be compatible with; "one idea squares with
another"
6 pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with
him"
7 turn the paddle; in canoeing [syn: feather]
8 turn the oar, while rowing [syn: feather]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From etyl fro esquarre ( > modern équerre), from Vulgar Latin *|exquadra, from etyl la quadra.Pronunciation
- , /skwɛə(r)/, /skwE@(r)/
- Rhymes with: -ɛə(r)
Noun
- A polygon with four
sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles
are all 90 degrees.
- I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.—Kazimir Malevich
- An L- or T-shaped tool
used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- 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
- An open space in a town, not necessarily square in
shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing
to the eye.
- You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square. NewsRadio
- Anything, such as tiles
or cut pieces of material, primarily defined by being square in
shape.
- You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
- The second power of a
number, value, term or expression.
- 64 is the square of 8.
- A socially conventional person;
typically associated with the 1950s
- Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- Enter your account number followed by a square.
- The central area of a cricket field, containing several pitches laid out next to one
another - only one being used at a time.
- 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.
- In the context of "real estate jargon": A unit of measurement
of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 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.
- 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
http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm
- 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 http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php
- 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
http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- In the context of "academia": A mortarboard
Synonyms
Translations
polygon
- Arabic:
- Bosnian: kvadrat
- Chinese: 正方 (zhèngfāng)
- Czech: čtverec
- Dutch: vierkant
- Esperanto: kvadrato
- Finnish: neliö
- French: carré
- German: Quadrat
- Hebrew: רִבּוּעַ (ribu'a)
- Hungarian: négyzet
- Icelandic: ferningur
- Italian: quadrato
- Japanese: (, seihōkei)
- Korean: 정사각형 (jeongsagakhyeong)
- Latvian: kvadrāts
- Lithuanian: kvadratas
- Malayalam: സമചതുരം (samachathuram)
- Persian: (mora-ba) (chahaar-goosh)
- Polish: kwadrat
- Portuguese: quadrado
- Russian: квадрат
- Scottish Gaelic: ceàrnan , ceàrnag
- Slovak: štvorec
- Slovene: kvadrat
- Spanish: cuadrado
- Swedish: kvadrat , fyrkant (informal)
- Telugu: చతురస్రం (chaturasraM)
- Turkish: kare
tool
- Dutch: winkelhaak
- French: équerre
- Polish: ekierka
- Portuguese: esquadro
- Russian: угольник
- Scottish Gaelic: ceàrn-righailt , cromadh-dìreach
- Spanish: escuadra , cartabón
open space in a town
- Bosnian: trg
- Czech: náměstí
- Dutch: plein, markt, plaats, square
- Finnish: aukio, tori
- French: place, marché
- German: Platz
- Greek, Modern: πλατεία (plateía)
- Hungarian: tér
- Icelandic: torg
- Italian: piazza
- Japanese: (, hiroba)
- Lithuanian: aikštė
- Malayalam: കവല (kavala), ചത്വരം (chathvaram)
- Persian: (may-daan)
- Polish: skwer , plac
- Portuguese: praça
- Russian: площадь
- Slovak: námestie
- Slovene: trg
- Spanish: plaza
- Swedish: torg
second power
- Bosnian: drugi stepen
- Czech: druhá mocnina
- Dutch: kwadraat , tweede macht
- Finnish: neliö
- French: carré
- German: Quadrat
- Hungarian: négyzet
- Icelandic: annað veldi
- Italian: quadrato
- Japanese: (, heihō)
- Malayalam: വര്ഗ്ഗം (vargam)
- Polish: kwadrat
- Portuguese: quadrado
- Slovene: kvadrat
- Spanish: cuadrado
- Swedish: kvadrat
- Telugu: వర్గం (vargaM)
slang: socially conventional person
- German: Spießer
- Portuguese: quadrado
- Spanish: cuadriculado
# symbol on a telephone
central area of a cricket field
square foot
- Finnish: neliöjalka
- ttbc Catalan: (1) quadrat ^
- ttbc Chinese: 正方型 (zhèngfāng xíng) (1); 广场 (guǎngchǎng) (3); 平方 (píngfāng) (4)
- ttbc German: (2): (try square) Anschlagwinkel , (T-square) Zeichenschiene ;
- ttbc Interlingua: (1): quadrato; (2): esquadra; (3): placia; (6): conventional, conservator
- ttbc Irish: cearnóg
- ttbc Korean: 정사각형 [正四角形] (jeongsagakhyeong)
- ttbc Latin: (1): quadrum, quadratum
- ttbc Romanian: (1): pătrat ; (2): echer ; (3): piaţă
- ttbc Serbian:
-
- Cyrillic: квадрат (1), трг (3), други степен (4)
- Roman: kvadrat (1), trg (3), drugi stepen (4)
Adjective
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- At right angles to.
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit
of length by itself.
- square metre
- square mile
- square metre
- Socially conventional; boring.
- in line with the batsman's popping crease.
Translations
shaped like a square
- Dutch: vierkant, vierkante
- Finnish: nelikulmainen
- French: carré, carrée
- German: quadratisch
- Hungarian: négyszögletes
- Icelandic: ferningslaga
- Italian: quadrato, quadrata
- Polish: kwadratowy
- Portuguese: quadrado
- Russian: квадратный
- Spanish: cuadrado
- Swedish: kvadratisk, fyrkantig
at right angles to
- Dutch: met rechte hoek
- Finnish: suora kulma jokin nähden
- French: perpendiculaire à m|f
- German: rechtwinklig
- Hungarian: derékszögű, merőleges
- Icelandic: hornréttur
- Italian: perpendicolare a m|f
- Portuguese: perpendicular
- Spanish: perpendicular
- Swedish: vinkelrätt mot
in the names of units
socially conventional
- Hungarian: kockafejű
- Portuguese: quadrado
- Swedish: fyrkantig
Verb
- To adjust so as to
align with or place at a
right
angle to something else.
- The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
- To resolve.
- John can square this question up for us.
- These results just don't square.
- John can square this question up for us.
- In the context of "transitive|mathematics}} Of a value, term
Extensive Definition
Square may mean:
Mathematics
- Square (geometry), a polygon with four equal sides and angles
- Square (algebra), to multiply a number or other quantity by itself
- Square wave, a basic kind of non-sinusoidal waveform
Entertainment
- Square (album), an album by Buck 65
- Square (band), a musical trio from Lincoln, Nebraska
- Square Enix,
a video game company
- Square Co., former video game company that merged with Enix to become Square Enix
- Square Electronic Arts, joint venture between console video game developers Square and Electronic Arts
- Square Pictures, a computer-animated film division of Square
- The Squares, an English band that formed in 1985
Language
- Square (slang), either an unhip person or a cigarette
- Square character (■), a written character
- A modifier adjective, used when describing fielding positions in cricket
- An adjective or noun, used when describing two positions parallel with one another relative to the goal in football
Places
- Square Lake, Maine, an unorganized territory in Aroostook County, Maine
- Times Square, popular landmark in New York City
- The
Square, a common name for public squares
- Town square or Market square, an open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town
- Tiananmen Square in Bejing China, the largest open-urban square in the world.
Other
- Square (area), an Imperial unit of floor area and other construction materials
- Square (cipher), a cryptographic block cipher
- Square division, a form of military organization
- Square rig, a type of sail and rigging arrangement
- An astrological aspect of 90 degrees
- Carpentry square, a tool
- Infantry square
square in Catalan: Quadrat
square in German: Quadrat
square in Spanish: Cuadro
square in Esperanto: Kvadrato
square in French: Carré (homonymie)
square in Icelandic: Ferhyrningur
square in Italian: Quadrato
square in Swahili (macrolanguage): Mraba
square in Lithuanian: Kvadratas (reikšmės)
square in Dutch: Vierkant
square in Japanese: スクウェア
square in Low German: Quadrat
square in Polish: Kwadrat
(ujednoznacznienie)
square in Portuguese: Quadrado
(desambiguação)
square in Russian: Квадрат (значения)
square in Simple English: Square
square in Slovenian: Kvadrat
square in Finnish: Neliö
square in Ukrainian: Квадрат
square in Chinese: 方
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Babbitt, Little Joe, Methuselah, Middle American,
Philistine, T square,
aboveboard, absolutely, accommodate, accord, accordant, account with,
accurate, accurately, adapt, adipose, adjust, agora, agree, agree with, alike, amortize, anal, anal character, answer to,
antediluvian,
antique, aplomb, arena, arrange, assent, assort with, at par, at
right angles, atone, atone
for, au pair, authentic, back number,
back-number, balance,
balanced, banal, bang, be consistent, be of one, be
uniform with, beefy,
behind the times, bewhiskered, biquadrate, bloated, block, blowzy, bob, bona fide, bosomy, bourgeois, brawny, bromidic, burgher, burly, button-down, buxom, buy, buy off, campo, cancel, change, check, check out, chime, chubby, chunky, cincture, city block, clean, clear, clear off, clear the board,
clear up, clos, close, cohere, coincide, come to terms,
commensurate,
common, commonplace, compensate, comply with,
compulsive,
compulsive character, concordant, concur, confine, conform, conform to, conform
with, conformer,
conformist, conservative, consist with,
constant, container, conventional, conventionalist,
coop, cooperate, coordinate, corny, corpulent, correct, correspond, correspond to,
correspond with, corresponding, counteract, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, counterweigh, court, courtyard, croft, cube, cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, curtilage, cut-and-dried,
dad, dead, decent, defensible, definitely, delicate, delimited field,
deserved, dice, diced, die-hard, direct, directly, discharge, distended, dodo, dovetail, drawn, due, dumpy, elder, enclave, enclosure, equal, equalize, equalized, equate, equilateral, equiponderate, equitable, ethical, even, even stephen, even the score,
even up, evenhanded,
exact, exactly, expiate, express, expressly, fade, fair, fair and square, faithful, faithfully, fall in together,
familiar, fat, fattish, field, fifty-fifty, filling, fine, fit, fit in, fit together, fix, fleshy, flush, fogy, fold, form fours, formalist, formalistic, forty, forum, fossil, four, four-part diaphony, foursome, foursquare, fud, fuddy-duddy, full, fusty, gee, generous, genuine, get even with, give
satisfaction, go together, go with, good, good-faith, granny, green, gross, ground, hackney, hackneyed, half-and-half, hang
together, harmonious,
harmonize, has-been,
have, healthful, healthy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, hit, hold together, honest, honor, honorable, impartial, impersonal, imposing, in accord, in all
respects, in every respect, in keeping, in line, in step, indemnify, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, innocent, integrate, interlock, intersect, ipsissimis verbis,
jibe, just, justifiable, justified, kerplunk, knotted, kosher, kraal, lawful, lead, legal, level, lift, like, liquidate, list, literally, literatim, live down, lock, longhair, lot, lubricate, lusty, make accounts square, make
amends, make compensation, make four, make good, make matters up,
make reparation, make restitution, make right, make up for,
market, market cross,
marketplace,
mart, match, mathematical, matriarch, meaty, meet, meet and right, merited, methodologist,
micrometrically precise, microscopic, mid-Victorian,
middle-class type, model child, modify, mossback, moth-eaten, musty, naive, nerd, nice, nip and tuck, nonpartisan, not with it,
nutritious, obese, obey, objective, oblong, offset, old believer, old crock,
old dodo, old fogy, old hat, old liner, old man, old poop, old
woman, old-fashioned, old-timer, on a footing, on a level, on a
par, on even ground, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up,
open, open and aboveboard,
organization man, orthodox, orthogonal, out of it,
outsider, overlap, overweight, pale, paling, par, parallel, parcel of land,
park, parrot, patch, patch up, patriarch, paunchy, pay, pay back, pay damages, pay in
full, pay off, pay old debts, pay out, pay the bill, pay the
forfeit, pay the penalty, pay the shot, pay up, pedant, pedantic, pen, perfectionist, perpendicularly,
piazza, pinpoint, place, plastic, plastic person,
plat, platitudinous, plaza, plop, plot, plot of ground, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line,
plumb rule, plumb-line, plummet, plump, plunk, podgy, point-blank, poise, pop, pops, portly, positively, potbellied, precise, precisely, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, predictable, proper, propitiate, proportion, proportionate, provincial, pudgy, puffy, pursy, quad, quadrangle, quadrangular, quadrate, quadratic, quadrature, quadrennium, quadriform, quadrilateral, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, quatrefoil, quit, quits, reactionary, real estate,
reckon with, recompense, reconcile, rectangle, rectangular, redeem, redress, refined, refund, register, register with,
regular old fogy, reimburse, relic, religious, religiously exact,
repair, repay, requite, respond to, retire, rhombic, rhomboid, rialto, right, right and proper,
right-angled, rightful,
rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rigorously, roly-poly,
rotund, rule, ruler, satisfy, satisfying, scientific, scientifically
exact, section, set, set off, set square, settle, settle accounts with,
settle with, settled,
severe, sharp, sheep, sheer, sheerly, sing in chorus,
single-hearted, smack,
smack-dab, solid, sop, sort with, spang, square accounts, square
dance, square it, square things, square up, square with,
square-dealing, square-shooting, squarely, squaring, squat, squatty, stale, stalemated, stalwart, stand together,
starets, stereotyped,
stick-in-the-mud, stiffen, stock, stocky, stout, straight, straight-shooting,
straightedge,
straighten up, straightforward,
strait-laced, strapping, strict, strictly, strike a balance,
stuffed shirt, stuffy,
substantial,
subtle, suit, swollen, tailor, take up, tally, tally with, tamper with,
teenybopper,
tense, tetrad, tetragon, tetragonal, tetragram, tetragrammaton, tetrahedral, tetrahedron, tetralogy, tetraphony, tetrapody, theater, thick-bodied, thickset, threadbare, throw back,
tied, timeworn, to the letter,
toft, top-heavy, tract, traditionalist, trapezohedral, trapezoid, triangle, trimmer, trite, true, truistic, try square, tubby, unbiased, undeviating, undeviatingly, unerring, unerringly, unimaginative, unoriginal, unprejudiced, unsophisticated,
unstinting, up and
down, up-and-up, upright, uptight, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et
litteratim, veritable,
village green, warmed-over, warrantable, warranted, well-fed,
well-known, well-worn, word by word, word for word, worn, worn thin, yard,
yes-man