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▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles ("A checkerboard has 64 squares")
▸ noun: a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
▸ noun: someone who doesn't understand what is going on
▸ noun: the product of two equal terms ("Gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance")
▸ noun: (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")
▸ noun: something approximating the shape of a square
▸ noun: an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
▸ verb: pay someone and settle a debt ("I squared with him")
▸ verb: be compatible with ("One idea squares with another")
▸ verb: cause to match, as of ideas or acts
▸ verb: raise to the second power
▸ verb: make square ("Square the circle")
▸ verb: position so as to be square ("He squared his shoulders")
▸ verb: turn the oar, while rowing
▸ verb: turn the paddle; in canoeing
▸ adjective: characterized by honesty and fairness ("A square deal")
▸ adjective: having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle ("A square peg in a round hole")
▸ adjective: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
▸ adverb: firmly and solidly ("Hit the ball squarely")
▸ adverb: in a square shape ("A squarely cut piece of paper")
▸ adverb: with honesty and fairness ("Dealt squarely with his customers")
▸ adverb: in a straight direct way ("Looked him squarely in the eye")
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #11624)
▸ Also see squaring
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to square
▸ Usage examples for square
▸ Idioms related to square (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing square
▸ Popular nouns described by square
▸ Words that often appear near square
▸ Rhymes of square
▸ Invented words related to square
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles ("A checkerboard has 64 squares")
▸ noun: a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
▸ noun: someone who doesn't understand what is going on
▸ noun: the product of two equal terms ("Gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance")
▸ noun: (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")
▸ noun: something approximating the shape of a square
▸ noun: an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
▸ verb: pay someone and settle a debt ("I squared with him")
▸ verb: be compatible with ("One idea squares with another")
▸ verb: cause to match, as of ideas or acts
▸ verb: raise to the second power
▸ verb: make square ("Square the circle")
▸ verb: position so as to be square ("He squared his shoulders")
▸ verb: turn the oar, while rowing
▸ verb: turn the paddle; in canoeing
▸ adjective: characterized by honesty and fairness ("A square deal")
▸ adjective: having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle ("A square peg in a round hole")
▸ adjective: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
▸ adverb: firmly and solidly ("Hit the ball squarely")
▸ adverb: in a square shape ("A squarely cut piece of paper")
▸ adverb: with honesty and fairness ("Dealt squarely with his customers")
▸ adverb: in a straight direct way ("Looked him squarely in the eye")
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #11624)
▸ Also see squaring
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to square
▸ Usage examples for square
▸ Idioms related to square (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing square
▸ Popular nouns described by square
▸ Words that often appear near square
▸ Rhymes of square
▸ Invented words related to square