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A square-shaped object
Answer for the clue "A square-shaped object ", 8 letters:
quadrate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quadrate \Quad"rate\, n. [L. quadratum. See Quadrate , a.] (Geom.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. At which command, the powers militant That stood for ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having four sides and four angles n. a cubelike object a square-shaped object
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In heraldry , an ordinary is described as quadrate (or more fully nowy quadrate ) when it has a square central boss. shield.png|Shield of Durham University : Argent, a cross paty quadrate gules; on a canton azure a chevron or between three lions rampant ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. 2 Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. 3 (context archaic English) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. 4 (context archaic English) Squared; suited; correspondent. ...
Usage examples of quadrate.
The articular and quadrate bones of her jaw were crushed, with additional comprehensive damage to the structure of the dentary plate.
Quoyle dreaded the things she brought from school, that she showed him with her lip stuck out: bits of pasta glued on construction paper to form a face, pipe cleaners twisted into flowers, crayoned houses with quadrate windows, brown trees with broccoli heads never seen in Newfoundland.
According to this square, Thucydides delivers, the Athenians disposed their battle against the Lacedemonians, brickwise,48 and by the same word the Learned Guellius expoundeth the quadrate of Virgil, 49 after the form of a brick or tile.
For Fortune lays the Plot of our Adversities in the foundation of our Felicities, blessing us in the first quadrate, to blast us more sharply in the last.
But worse than that for our purposes was his case-book showing long-drawn-out histories of general bilious indisposition, melancholy, taedium vitae sometimes reaching mere despair, extreme irascibility: all this with no known agent, though autopsy showed an enlarged quadrate lobe studded with yellow nodules the size of a pea.