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English

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A square (polygon)
Komsomolskaya Square

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsquare,sqware,squyre; fromOld Frenchesquarre,esquerre, (modernFrenchéquerre), fromVulgar Latin*exquadra, fromLatinex- +‎quadro, fromquadrus (compare Englishquad andquadra).Doublet ofsquad andsquadra.

DisplacedOld Englishfēowerecge (fēower nominative +ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").

Pronunciation

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Noun

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square (pluralsquares)

  1. (geometry) Apolygon with four straight sides of equal length and fourright angles; anequilateralrectangle; aregularquadrilateral.
    Hypernyms:shape,polygon,rectangle
    Coordinate terms:circle,oval,triangle,trapezoid,rectangle,rhombus,lozenge,diamond
    • 1927,Kazimir Malevich,The Non-Objective World:
      I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a blacksquare on a white field.
  2. Something characterized by asquare, or nearly square, form.
    1. Acell in agrid.
      You may not move a piece to asquare already occupied by one of your own pieces.
    2. A square piece, part, or surface.
      a square ofglass
    3. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
    4. (Canada,US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
    5. (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of acolumn, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
      Coordinate term:column inch
  3. An L- or T-shapedtool used to place objects or drawlines atright angles.
    Hyponyms:steel square,framing square,carpenter's square,T-square
    • a.2018, Bob Vila, “Carpenter squares”, inBob Vila[1], archived fromthe original on26 January 2008:
      There are so many uses for thesquare, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications.
    1. (figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
  4. An open space or park, often in the center of atown, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
    Synonyms:piazza,plaza
    • 1705,J[oseph] Addison,Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: [] Jacob Tonson, [],→OCLC:
      The statue of Alexander the Seventh stands in the largesquare of the town.
    • 1995 October 10,NewsRadio, season 2, episode 3:
      You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the townsquare.
    1. (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
      Synonym:place
  5. (mathematics) Theproduct of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the secondpower of anumber,value,term orexpression.
    64 is thesquare of 8.
  6. (military formation) A body oftroops drawn up in a square formation.
    • c.1606–1607 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene xi]:
      he alone
      Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had
      In the bravesquares of war
    • 1818, quoted in Christopher Kelly,History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event
      The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly charged oursquares, their cannon opening chasms; but the British infantry, though greatly diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable to the last.
    • 1897,Henry Newbolt,Vitae Lampada:
      The sand of the desert is sodden red,—
      Red with the wreck of asquare that broke;—
      The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
      And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
    • 1990,Peter Hopkirk,The Great Game, Folio Society, published2010, page144:
      After disastrous attempts to break the Russiansquares, during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.
  7. (1950s slang) A sociallyconventional orconservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latestfads ortrends.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:mainstreamer
    Antonyms:seeThesaurus:fashionable
    Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such asquare!
    • 1949 March 11, “R.S.V.P.”, inCourier, volume xv, number 9, Harvey, IL: Thornton Junior College,page 3:
      Good looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's asquare.
    • 1957,Frank Slay,Bob Crewe, “Daddy Cool”, performed byThe Rays:
      She said: Wow! What asquare! Don't you dig the scene? / Daddy Cool's playing his piano machine!
    • 1957, “Jailhouse Rock”,Elvis Presley (music):
      The sad sack was a sitting on a block of stone
      Way over in the corner weepin' all alone.
      The warden said, hey, buddy, don't you be nosquare
      If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.
  8. (British) The symbol # on atelephone;hash.
    Synonyms:hash,sharp,(US)pound sign
    Enter your account number followed by asquare.
  9. (cricket) The central area of acricketfield, with one or morepitches of which only one is used at a time.
    An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricketsquare, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
  10. (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100square feet or roughly 9.3square metres. Used inreal estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
    • 2006,Macquarie Bank (Australia), press releaseMacquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006[2]
      Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is thesquare
    • 2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania[3]
      The house is very large and open and boasts 39squares of living space plus over 13squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17squares of garage and workshop downstairs.
  11. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
  12. (academia) Amortarboard.
  13. (colloquial, US)Ellipsis ofsquare meal.
    Even when times were tough, we got threesquares a day.
  14. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
  15. The relation ofharmony, orexactagreement;equality;level.
  16. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; aquadrate.
  17. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; aquarrel.
  18. (slang)Cigarette.
  19. (brewing) Avat used forfermentation.
  20. (slang, MLE) A well-definedtorso.
    • 2019 July 24, “No Feelings”, Quezgo (lyrics)‎[4]Link Up TV,0:14–0:19:
      She wanna talk about feelings
      But I don't believe in love
      Just give me yoursquare
    • 2021 September 29, “Bars At The Sesh[S3.E7]”, #D15 Trigz (lyrics)‎[5]Dearfxch TV,1:05–1:08:
      I don’t really care about them man there
      Tell the bad b “just swing yoursquare
    • 2021 November 18, “I Love to Scam”, Tankz (lyrics)‎[6],2:01–2:10:
      Get on your knees and suck this dick
      Get on your knees and slop this quick
      Bro knows I could never put trust in a bitch (Never)
      Me and Tz like Lilo ’n Stitch
      So don’t hesitate to swing me your shit
      Yeah, swing yoursquare

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Translations

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type of polygon
tool
open space in a town
cell in a grid
second power
body of troops in a square formation
slang: socially conventional person
the# symbol on a telephone
central area of a cricket field
unit of measurement of area
unit for measuring roof area
dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert
mortarboardseemortarboard
square mealseesquare meal
pane of glass
printing: portion of a column
exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule
harmony or exact agreement
astrologyseequadrate
act quarrellingseequarrel
front of a woman's dress
slang: cigarette
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Adjective

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square (comparativesquarer,superlativesquarest)

  1. Shaped like asquare(the polygon).
    Hypernyms:rectangular,polygonal
    Coordinate terms:circular,oval,triangular,trapezoidal,rectangular,rhomboid
  2. Forming aright angle (90°).
    Synonyms:orthogonal,perpendicular,normal
    Antonyms:crooked,out of square,oblique
    asquare corner
    • 2017, Julia Rai,Making Metal Clay Jewellery:
      Take care to make the cut completelysquare to the edges of the wire to give a good butt join for the ends of the wire.
    1. (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; notracked orleaning.
      Antonyms:out of square,crooked,racked
      The foundation has to be level and the framing has to besquare.
      • 2019, Bruce W. Herdman,Ozarks Lite:
        The stacks had to be neat andsquare or the old guy grumbled and insisted on getting it just so.
    2. (nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
  3. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
    Coordinate terms:cubic,linear
    A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16square feet.
  4. Honest;straightforward;fair.
    Synonyms:above board,on the level,on the square,on the up and up,straight
    I'm just looking for asquare deal on my car repair.
    square dealing
    • 1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton,Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman:
      Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in asquare crib like mine, as if you were in aflashpanny?
    • 1900 [1878], Allan Pinkerton,Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches[7], New York: G. W. Dillingham, page29:
      I believe you're a good,square man
    • 1908, Perceval Landon,Thurnley Abbey:
      I am not very good at analysing things, but I felt that she talked a little uncomfortably and with a suspicion of effort, smiled rather conventionally, and was obviously glad to go. These things seem trifling enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was notsquare.
  5. Satisfied;comfortable with; not experiencing anyconflict.
    • 2007, Lauren Heaton, Holly Bollinger, Catherine Lee Phillips, Susan Gartner,Women of the Harvest, page63:
      By the confident tone in her voice, you can tell she issquare with that.
    • 2009, Ramona Holliday,Winter Murders:
      "[] I will never act on it, but if you're satisfied with the way things are then I am, too.[] So, are wesquare?”
  6. Even;tied
    to make or leave the accountssquare
    • 2000 December 16, “Islanders, Devils Make It Tough For Canadian Teams”, inBryan Times:
      The teams weresquare while at even strength. have to play better than even if we want to win games." said Montreal goalie Jose Theodore
    • 2003 April 9, “Lowe Struggles Again In Sox Setback”, inRecord-Journal:
      But the Jays weresquare again by the end of the inning, as Myers hit a 2-and-0 pitch into the left-center field seats
    • 2003 November 24, “Els's mates get better with time”, inThe Age, Melbourne, Vic.:
      The sides weresquare to the 14th hole when Goosen took birdie,
    • 2006 September 23, Jim McCabe, “As usual, Americans trailing after first day”, inThe Columbus Dispatch:
      In each of the last three afternoon foursomes, the Americans weresquare through 15, but could only come in with two halves and a loss.
    The sides weresquare at the end of the half.
  7. (slang, derogatory) Sociallyconventional;boring.
    • 1974, Jack Olsen,The Girls on the Campus, page100:
      It was asquare town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live asquare life.
    • 1990, A. W. Gray,In Defense of Judges:
      Thesquare Johns lie more than the in-guys do.
    Synonym:bourgeois
  8. (cricket) In line with thebatsman'spopping crease.
  9. Solid,decent,substantial.
    It may be prison, but at least I'm getting threesquare meals a day.
    • c.1613 (first performance),John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, inComedies and Tragedies [], London: [] Humphrey Robinson, [], and forHumphrey Moseley [], published1647,→OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
      By Heaven,square eaters. More meat, I say.
    • 1879, United States. Congress,Congressional Record, Volume 9, page1594:
      It is obvious two o'clock will arrive in about five and a half hours from now, and I presume every gentleman in the House would like to get asquare breakfast.
    • 1899 February, “Stray Shots From Solomon”, inShoe and Leather Journal, volume12, number 2, page51:
      If some of you who read this paragraph would quit scheming and get down to honest,square effort this year, your creditors would get their due and your families would be better kept.
    • 1986, Jan Irving, Robin Currie,Mudluscious, page75:
      "Sarah," said her grandmother. "You should eat a goodsquare meal."
    • 2012, Cathy MacPhail,Worse Than Boys:
      I said that because I didn't want any knives involved, and if Wizzie agreed to asquare go now, with half the school listening, she couldn't go back on it.
  10. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
    a man of asquare frame
  11. (automotive) Of aninternal combustion engine design, in which thediameter of thepiston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to itsstroke distance.
    Coordinate terms:oversquare,undersquare

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Translations

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shaped like a square
forming a right angle
formed by multiplying two equal numbers
used in the names of units
honest, straightforward
fairseefair
even, tied
socially conventional
cricket: in line with batsman's popping crease
correctly aligned
hearty, vigorous
having shape broad for the height, with angular outlines
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Adverb

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square (comparativemoresquare,superlativemostsquare)

  1. Directly.
    • 2012, Allan A. Zarbock,Nobody, page211:
      Staash tipped up the rim of his hat and looked mesquare in the eyes as the cigarette dangled from his lips.

Verb

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A squared square (a square tiled with squares)

square (third-person singular simple presentsquares,present participlesquaring,simple past and past participlesquared)

  1. (transitive) Toadjust so as toalign with or place at aright angle to something else;in particular:
    The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could besquared.
    1. (nautical) To place at a right angle to themast orkeel.
      tosquare the yards
    2. (rowing) Torotate theoars so that they are perpendicular to thewater.
  2. (ambitransitive) Toresolve orreconcile; tosuit orfit.
    John cansquare this question up for us.
    These results just don'tsquare with what we expected.
    • 2006, Gary Chartier, “Non-Human Animals and Process Theodicy”, inReligious Studies[8], volume41, number 1, page10:
      […] the process theist may not regard the killing of non-human animals for food or other reasons as generally acceptable. Call the process thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong azoophile. Even if the zoophile regards human beings as more capable of experience and insight than another animals, and as therefore more valuable than other animals, she may regard non-human animals as moral patients. She may well not regard predatory animals as full moral agents; she will then have no reason to see their killing of other animals for food as itself morally wrong, because predators are not themselves subject to moral assessments. But she may still find it difficult tosquare God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness.
  3. (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmonywith something.
    I cannotsquare the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
    tosquare our actions by the opinions of others
  4. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the secondpower.
  5. (transitive, geometry) Todraw, with apair of compasses and astraightedge only, asquare with the samearea as.
    square the circle
  6. (transitive, geometry) Totile (completelyfill) with squares.
  7. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
    • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, inBBC Sport[9]:
      First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting hesquared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.
  8. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
  9. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
    • 1782,William Cowper,Charity:
      No works shall find acceptance[] thatsquare not truly with the Scripture plan.
  10. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; toquarrel.
  11. To take aboxing attitude; often withup oroff.
  12. To form with foursides and fourright angles.
  13. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
    tosquare mason's work
    • 2002, William Boyd,Any Human Heart:
      Everything on his writing desk wassquared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.
  14. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
  15. (astrology) To hold aquartile position respecting.
    • 1697,Thomas Creech,The five books of M. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology, done into English verse:
      the icy Goat, the Crab thatsquare the Scales

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Translations

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to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle
to resolvesee alsoresolve
to adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something
math: to multiply by itself
geometry: to draw a square with same area as something else
soccer: to make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
to take opposing sidesseequarrel
to be consistent with
to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance
to take a boxing attitude
to form with four sides and four right angles
to form with right angles and straight lines
to compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard
astrology: to hold a quartile position respecting
nautical: to place at right angles with the keel
rowing: to rotate oars to be perpendicular to the water

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsquare.Doublet oféquerre.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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square m (pluralsquares)

  1. smallpublicgarden in the middle of asquare
    lesquare de la tour Saint-Jacques
    thepark surrounding the Tour Saint-Jacques

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchesquarre,esquerre (modernFrenchéquerre), fromVulgar Latin*exquadra, fromLatinex- +‎quadro, fromquadrus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskwaːr(ə)/,/ˈskwɛːr(ə)/,/ˈskwiːr(ə)/

Noun

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square (pluralsquares)

  1. Asquare(tool used to ensure a right angle)
  2. Asquare(equilateral rectangle); a square plot of land.
  3. One of the edges of a square.
  4. In late medieval English, anesquire.

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