square, straight
(adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
square
(adjective) leaving no balance; “my account with you is now all square”
square
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
straight, square
(adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness; “straight dealing”; “a square deal”
hearty, satisfying, solid, square, substantial
(adjective) providing abundant nourishment; “a hearty meal”; “good solid food”; “ate a substantial breakfast”; “four square meals a day”
squarely, square
(adverb) firmly and solidly; “hit the ball squarely”; “the bat met the ball squarely”; “planted his great bulk square before his enemy”
squarely, square
(adverb) in a square shape; “a squarely cut piece of paper”; “folded the sheet of paper square”
squarely, square
(adverb) in a straight direct way; “looked him squarely in the eye”; “ran square into me”
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”
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”
square, square toes
(noun) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
square, lame
(noun) someone who doesn’t understand what is going on
square, second power
(noun) the product of two equal terms; “nine is the second power of three”; “gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance”
square, foursquare
(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”
square
(noun) something approximating the shape of a square
square, square up
(verb) make square; “Square the circle”; “square the wood with a file”
square
(verb) raise to the second power
feather, square
(verb) turn the oar, while rowing
feather, square
(verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing
square
(verb) position so as to be square; “He squared his shoulders”
square
(verb) pay someone and settle a debt; “I squared with him”
square
(verb) be compatible with; “one idea squares with another”
square
(verb) cause to match, as of ideas or acts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Square (plural Squares)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Square is the 21495th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1215 individuals. Square is most common among Black/African American (82.47%) and White (10.12%) individuals.
square (plural squares)
(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
Synonym: tetragon (rare)
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
A cell in a grid.
A square piece, part, or surface, such as a square of glass.
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
Synonyms: steel square, framing square, carpenter's square
(figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
Synonyms: piazza, plaza
(often, in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
Synonym: place
(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
(1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
Synonyms: hash, sharp, pound sign (US)
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
(real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 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.
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
(academia) A mortarboard
(colloquial, US) A square meal.
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
(slang) Cigarette.
(brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
• (socially conventional person): see mainstreamer
square (comparative squarer, superlative squarest)
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at 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.
Synonyms: orthogonal, perpendicular, normal
Antonym: crooked
Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
Coordinate terms: cubic, linear
Honest; straightforward.
Synonyms: above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight
Fair.
Even; tied
(slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
Synonym: bourgeois
(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
Hearty; vigorous.
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
square (third-person singular simple present squares, present participle squaring, simple past and past participle squared)
(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
(nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
(ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
(transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
To form with four sides and four right angles.
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
Source: Wiktionary
Square, n. Etym: [OF. esquarre, esquierre, F. Ă©querre a carpenter's square (cf. It. squadra), fr. (assumed) LL. exquadrare to make square; L. ex + quadrus a square, fr. quattuor four. See Four, and cf. Quadrant, Squad, Squer a square.]
1. (Geom.) (a) The corner, or angle, of a figure. [Obs.] (b) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
2. Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so; as: (a) A square piece or fragment. He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches. Sir W. Scott.
(b) A pane of glass. (c) (Print.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers. (d) (Carp.) One hundred superficial feet.
3. An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets. The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town. Addison.
4. (Mech. & Joinery)
Definition: An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
5. Hence, a pattern or rule. [Obs.]
6. (Arith. & Alg.)
Definition: The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 Ă— 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
7. Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. Hooker. I have not kept my square. Shak.
8. (Mil.)
Definition: A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron. "The brave squares of war." Shak.
9. Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level. We live not on the square with such as these. Dryden.
10. (Astrol.)
Definition: The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.]
11. The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel. [R.]
12. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. [Obs.] Shak. Geometrical square. See Quadrat, n., 2.
– Hollow square (Mil.), a formation of troops in the shape of a square, each side consisting of four or five ranks, and the colors, officers, horses, etc., occupying the middle.
– Least square, Magic square, etc. See under Least, Magic, etc.
– On the square, or Upon the square, in an open, fair manner; honestly, or upon honor. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- On, or Upon, the square with, upon equality with; even with. Nares.
– To be all squares, to be all settled. [Colloq.] Dickens.
– To be at square, to be in a state of quarreling. [Obs.] Nares.
– To break no square, to give no offense; to make no difference. [Obs.] -- To break squares, to depart from an accustomed order. To see how the squares go, to see how the game proceeds; -- a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chessboard being formed with squares. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Square, a.
1. (Geom.)
Definition: Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
4. Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.
5. Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
6. Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
7. Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous. By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. Beau. & Fl.
8. (Naut.)
Definition: At 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.
Note: Square is often used in self-explaining compounds or combination, as in square-built, square-cornered, square-cut, square- nosed, etc. Square foot, an area equal to that of a square the sides of which are twelwe inches; 144 square inches.
– Square knot, a knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other; a reef knot. See Illust. under Knot.
– Square measure, the measure of a superficies or surface which depends on the length and breadth taken conjointly. The units of square measure are squares whose sides are the linear measures; as, square inches, square feet, square meters, etc.
– Square number. See square, n., 6.
– Square root of a number or quantity (Math.), that number or quantity which, multiplied by itself produces the given number or quantity.
– Square sail (Naut.), a four-sided sail extended upon a yard suspended by the middle; sometimes, the foresail of a schooner set upon a yard; also, a cutter's or sloop's sail boomed out. See Illust of Sail.
– Square stern (Naut.), a stern having a transom and joining the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a round stern, which has no transom.
– Three-square, Five-square, etc., having three, five, etc., equal sides; as, a three-square file.
– To get square with, to get even with; to pay off. [Colloq.]
Square, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squared; p. pr. & vb. n. Squaring.] Etym: [Cf. OF. escarrer, esquarrer. See Square, n.]
1. To form with four sides and four right angles. Spenser.
2. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
3. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard. Shak.
4. To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others. Square my trial To my proportioned strength. Milton.
5. To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
6. (Math.)
Definition: To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
7. (Astrol.)
Definition: To hold a quartile position respecting. The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales. Creech.
8. (Naut.)
Definition: To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards. To square one's shoulders, to raise the shoulders so as to give them a square appearance, -- a movement expressing contempt or dislike. Sir W. Scott.
– To square the circle (Math.), to determine the exact contents of a circle in square measure. The solution of this famous problem is now generally admitted to be impossible.
Square, v. i.
1. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit. No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan. Cowper.
2. To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel. [Obs.] Are you such fools To square for this Shak.
3. To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off. [Colloq.] Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
