square up (English, verb)
expansion: square up (third-person singular simple present squares up, present participle squaring up, simple past and past participle squared up)
Senses:
glosses: to get ready for a fight
glosses: to adopt a fighting stance
glosses: to face (someone) in a contest
glosses: to pay back money that is owed
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: die making
glosses: To mill (blocks, inserts, etc) into precisely square condition.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: squares up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squaring up
tags: participle
present
form: squared up
tags: participle
past
form: squared up
tags: past