Definition of "square"
- noun
Any simple object with four nearly straight and nearly equal sides meeting at nearly right angles.
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
A cell in a grid.
A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.
The second power of a number, value, term or expression.
A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s.
The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
The central area of a cricket field, containing several pitches laid out next to one another - only one being used at a time.
A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 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.
A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
A mortarboard.
A square meal.
- adjective
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
At right angles to.
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
Honest; straightforward.
Fair.
Even; tied.
Socially conventional; boring.
In line with the batsman's popping crease.
Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
- verb
To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
To resolve.
To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch.
To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
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.
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