square
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.
Displaced Old English fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").
Base: quadro
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: squarer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squarest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more square
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most square
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: squares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a square (the polygon).
pos: adj
examples: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
gloss: Forming a right angle (90°).
pos: adj
examples: a square corner
Take care to make the cut completely square to the edges of the wire to give a good butt join for the ends of the wire.
A September video from the TikTok user syrianpsycho, who promotes softmaxxing to his 1.2 million followers, bemoans the experience of going to restaurant while “mewing” (a technique that involves placing the tongue on the roof of the mouth, which Looksmaxxers believe makes the jaw grow squarer and stronger) and “starvemaxxing” (the Looksmaxxers’ term for extreme fasting).
gloss: Forming a right angle (90°).
pos: adj
examples: The foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.
The stacks had to be neat and square or the old guy grumbled and insisted on getting it just so.
gloss: Forming a right angle (90°).
pos: adj
gloss: Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
pos: adj
examples: A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.
square mile
It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
gloss: Honest; straightforward; fair.
pos: adj
examples: I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
square dealing
Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
I believe you're a good, square man
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 not square.
gloss: Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
pos: adj
examples: By the confident tone in her voice, you can tell she is square with that.
" […] I will never act on it, but if you're satisfied with the way things are then I am, too. […] So, are we square?”
gloss: Even; tied
pos: adj
examples: to make or leave the accounts square
The sides were square at the end of the half.
The teams were square while at even strength. have to play better than even if we want to win games." said Montreal goalie Jose Theodore
But the Jays were square again by the end of the inning, as Myers hit a 2-and-0 pitch into the left-center field seats
The sides were square to the 14th hole when Goosen took birdie,
In each of the last three afternoon foursomes, the Americans were square through 15, but could only come in with two halves and a loss.
gloss: Socially conventional; boring.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: It was a square town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live a square life.
The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.
gloss: In line with the batsman's popping crease.
pos: adj
gloss: Solid, decent, substantial.
pos: adj
examples: It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.
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 a square breakfast.
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.
"Sarah," said her grandmother. "You should eat a good square meal."
I said that because I didn't want any knives involved, and if Wizzie agreed to a square go now, with half the school listening, she couldn't go back on it.
gloss: Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
pos: adj
examples: a man of a square frame
gloss: Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
pos: adj
gloss: Directly.
pos: adv
examples: Staash tipped up the rim of his hat and looked me square in the eyes as the cigarette dangled from his lips.
gloss: To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
gloss: To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to square the yards
gloss: To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: John can square this question up for us.
These results just don't square with what we expected.
[…] 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 a zoophile. 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 to square God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness.
gloss: To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
to square our actions by the opinions of others
Square my trial
 To my proportioned strength.
gloss: Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: square the circle
gloss: To tile (completely fill) with squares.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
pos: verb
examples: First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.
gloss: To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
pos: verb
examples: No works shall find acceptance […] that square not truly with the Scripture plan.
gloss: To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Are you such fools / To square for this?
gloss: To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
pos: verb
examples: There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder, and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.
gloss: To form with four sides and four right angles.
pos: verb
examples: A stately pallace built of squared bricke,
Which cunningly was without morter laid
gloss: To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
pos: verb
examples: to square mason's work
Everything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.
gloss: To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
pos: verb
examples: to square the general sex By Cressid's rule
gloss: To hold a quartile position respecting.
pos: verb
examples: the icy Goat, the Crab that square the Scales
Related words: cubic
quadrilateral
rectangle
rhombus
Derived words: over square
square meal
square root
under square
all square
be there or be square
fair and square
oversquare
over-square
square bracket
square centimetre
square centimeter
square circle
square dancing
square deal
square drive
square engine
square flipper
squareflipper
square foot
squarehead
square inch
square knot
square Kufic
square leg
squarely
square matrix
square metre
square meter
square mile
squareness
square number
square pyramid
square rod
square sail
square serif
square shooter
square-shouldered
square-toed
square wave
square yard
squround
T-squared
turn square corners
undersquare
under-square
square one's shoulders
square around
square away
square off
square the circle
square up
square with
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Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: правоъгълен
roman: pravoǎgǎlen
lang: Czech
word: kolmý
lang: Danish
word: vinkelret på
lang: Dutch
word: met rechte hoek
lang: Finnish
word: kohtisuora
lang: Finnish
word: suorakulmaisesti
lang: French
word: perpendiculaire à
lang: German
word: rechtwinklig
lang: Greek
word: ορθογώνιος
roman: orthogónios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τετράμετρος
roman: tetrámetros
lang: Ancient Greek
word: εὐγώνιος
roman: eugṓnios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐγγώνιος
roman: engṓnios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐπικάρσιος
roman: epikársios
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀρθός
roman: orthós
lang: Hungarian
word: derékszögű
lang: Hungarian
word: merőleges
lang: Icelandic
word: hornréttur
lang: Italian
word: perpendicolare a
lang: Malay
word: persegi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vinkelrett på
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vinkelrett på
lang: Portuguese
word: perpendicular
lang: Russian
word: прямоуго́льный
roman: prjamougólʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: perpendicular
lang: Swedish
word: vinkelrät mot
lang: Vietnamese
word: vuông
lang: Bulgarian
word: подравнен
roman: podravnen
lang: Finnish
word: oikeansuuntainen
lang: Bulgarian
word: подравнявам
roman: podravnjavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: подравня
roman: podravnja
lang: Catalan
word: arreglar
lang: Catalan
word: escairar
lang: Finnish
word: suoristaa
lang: Greek
word: εξισώνω
roman: exisóno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τετραγωνίζω
roman: tetragōnízō
lang: Māori
word: tapawhā
lang: Portuguese
word: alinhar
lang: Spanish
word: alinear
lang: Bulgarian
word: съгласувам
roman: sǎglasuvam
lang: Dutch
word: oplossen
lang: Finnish
word: ratkaista
lang: Interlingua
word: resolver
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: løse
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: løyse
lang: Portuguese
word: resolver
lang: Spanish
word: resolver
lang: Spanish
word: cuadrar
lang: Finnish
word: jalustaa poikittain