square meaning
- (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"
- foursquare - The product of two equal terms
"gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
- second power - An open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- public square - Something approximating the shape of a square
- Someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- lame - A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- square toes - Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
"a checkerboard has 64 squares" - 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"
- Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
"a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner" - Characterized by honesty and fairness
"a square deal"
- straight - Providing abundant nourishment
"four square meals a day"
- hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial - Leaving no balance
"my account with you is now all square" - Without evasion or compromise
"a square contradiction"
- straightforward, straight - Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- straight
- Make square
"Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
- square up - Raise to the second power
- Cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- Position so as to be square
"He squared his shoulders" - Be compatible with
"one idea squares with another" - Pay someone and settle a debt
"I squared with him" - Turn the paddle; in canoeing
- feather - Turn the oar, while rowing
- feather
- In a straight direct way
"ran square into me"
- squarely - In a square shape
"folded the sheet of paper square"
- squarely - Firmly and solidly
"planted his great bulk square before his enemy"
- squarely
Derived forms: squaring, squared, squares, squarer, squarest
See also: aboveboard, angular, angulate, conventional, direct, guileless, honest, honestness, honesty, honorable [US], honourable [Brit, Cdn], lawful, paid, quadrate, quadratic, right-angled, squared, squarely, squareness, squarish, straightarrow, straightforward, transparent, wholesome
Type of: adapt, adjust, agree, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], check, conform, conservative, conservativist, correspond, fit, form, gibe, hand tool, jibe, match, multiply, number, paddle, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, position, rectangle, regular polygon, row, settle, shape, simple, simpleton, tally, tract
Antonym: round
Part of: checker board [N. Amer], checkerboard [N. Amer], chequerboard [Brit, Cdn], city, draughtboard [Brit]
Encyclopedia: Square
[American slang]
a good and nutritious meal. (Always with quantifier when square is used without meal.)
I need three squares a day—at least.
The old beggar looks like he could use a square meal.
[British slang]
Noun. A person who is reactionary, old fashioned and set in their ways. Derog.
Adj: Old fashioned, conservative, conventional.
[Architecture]
1.
A measure of roofing materials; equals 100 sq ft (9.29 sq m).
2.Any piece of material sawn or cut to be rectangular with equal dimensions on all four sides.
3.A steel square for checking angles.
[Business]
AmE / adjective, noun, verb
■ adjective
1
used before a unit of measurement to express an area equal to a square with sides of the length mentioned:
Office rental is €290 per square metre.
The chain has doubled its retail square footage.
2 (abbr sq.)
used after a number to give a measurement of area:
We have about 15 000 square metres of factory space.
3 ( if two people are square, neither of them owes money to the other: Here's the $50 I owed you-now we're square. ■ noun [C] MARKET SQUARE the number obtained when you multiply a number by itself: The square of 7 is 49. IDIOMS back to square one used to describe a situation when you are forced to return to the beginning of a project, task, etc., and have therefore made no real progress: The prototype failed safety tests, and we were back to square one. ■ verb [+ obj] 1 square sth (off) to make sth have straight edges and corners: The rods are sharpened at one end and squared off at the other. 2 (Stock Exchange ) to make the total number of shares bought and sold equal: Investors are squaring their short positions and taking profits. PHRASAL VERBS square up 1 square up (to sb/sth) to face a difficult situation and deal with it in a determined way: We must square up to the challenges posed by the new regulations. 2 square up (to sb/sth) to face sb as if you are going to fight them: Small stores do not have the power to square up to supermarkets. 3 ( to pay sb the money you owe them: I'll pay for the meal and we'll square up tomorrow. square sth with sth; square with sth to make two amounts, facts, etc. agree with each other; to agree with another amount, fact, etc: squaring invoices with purchase orders The CEO's policy of no redundancies needs to be squared with the need to maintain profits. His description of our performance does not square with reality. square sth with sb to ask permission or check with sb that they approve of what you want to do: I should be able to come, but I'll have to square it with my boss.
Examples
More: Next- in writing, make the characters square and upright.
- the square matrix is called a diagonal matrix.
- this room is 16 square metres in area.
- the statue stands by itself in the square.
- there were huge crowd of people in the square.
