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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
square
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a decent meal/a square meal (also a proper meal British English) (= with enough good food to satisfy you)
▪ I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
a square chin
▪ A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
a square of chocolate (=a small square piece)
▪ I only ate one small square of chocolate.
round/oval/square
▪ Her face was round and jolly.
round/square etc in shape
▪ The dining room was square in shape.
set square
square bracket
▪ The words in square brackets should be deleted.
square dance
square knot
square root
▪ The square root of nine is three.
square yards
▪ an area of 9,000 square yards
straighten/square your shoulders (=stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way)
▪ She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
block
▪ A square block of flats was almost finished; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper.
▪ I soon learn there are six other resident hotels within a few square blocks.
▪ Second, you could nail up corner blocks, those square blocks of pine with a an embossed circle in the middle.
▪ With shops filling nearly four square blocks, the walk will be invigorating but not lengthy.
▪ We had in mind to put in a square block of an indoor amusement park and we had it all designed.
▪ It had 300, 000 inhabitants; its population could fit inside a few square blocks of Manhattan.
bracket
▪ The square bracket shows the position of the insert.
▪ The square brackets reveal the position and length of the inserts.
▪ Note: Practitioners must decide whether they wish to include the words in square brackets.
▪ Unless otherwise specified, all fields have a maximum length of 20 characters, including colons, square brackets, etc.
▪ These are the plus, the stroke, the colon, the square brackets and the double colon.
▪ Remember that it must be 20 characters maximum, including square brackets.
▪ The numbers in square brackets are the absolute numbers, given to illustrate the incidence of both in the data.
dance
▪ Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.
▪ Then everything reverses, as in a square dance.
▪ It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance.
foot
▪ By 1811 this nursery had over 30,000 square feet of glass.
▪ When Bill and Melanie Parsons began designing their house, they figured they had 2, 200 square feet to play with.
▪ Any personnel manager who has three or four square feet of desk space can install the equipment.
▪ He pointed out that, with 20,000 square feet of space, the store can repair 20 tractors at a time.
▪ The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team.
▪ The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.
▪ This 64,000 square foot office block went for £3m.
▪ Its tallest building is 14 stories, while the two largest have nearly 500, 000 square feet each.
footage
▪ Software houses have been slow to response but the square footage sold to date is reportedly ahead of schedule.
▪ That way you could make do with a tenth the square footage.
inch
▪ This is rather over 2000 tons per square inch.
▪ Rats have less than a square inch of cortex, less than humans by a factor of 500.
▪ You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.
▪ In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.
▪ Pluto and Lawrence &038; Wishart were there, all 18 square inches of them.
▪ Each pad, about a square inch, treats half a cubic foot.
▪ That means its print head can squirt 1, 440, 000 little dots of ink on each square inch of paper.
▪ He looked me over carefully, appraising every visible square inch.
jaw
▪ Her sunken face, straight thin mouth, and square jaw spelled suffering and dedication as well as determination.
▪ He was handsome, coffee colored, with close-cropped black hair, dark eyes, a square jaw, big hands.
kilometre
▪ An array a square kilometre in size should see neutrino sources if there are any, Halzen says.
▪ The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.
▪ It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world.
kilometres
▪ Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete.
▪ In 5700 the principality of Piedmont measured about 16, 500 square kilometres in extent.
▪ In total, the seven states lost 1,003 square kilometres of forest area and gained 492 square kilometres.
▪ The Pantanal, at 140,000 square kilometres, is the world's largest wetland area.
▪ So far palaeontologists have only scratched the surface of a formation that Rauhut estimates covers at least several hundred square kilometres.
matrix
▪ A square matrix having zeros everywhere except in the principal diagonal is called a diagonal matrix and is clearly symmetric.
meal
▪ Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal.
▪ So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
metre
▪ It comes in 16 plain colours and costs £13 per square metre.
▪ This is the amount that beams on average on to each square metre, even in cloudy, wintry Britain.
▪ Two years later their numbers were still no higher than 2,000 per square metre.
▪ Locusts can swarm in densities of 15,000 per square metre.
▪ The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.
▪ The project's treatments cost as little as 54p per square metre.
▪ Order the terrazzo by the square metre.
▪ The new 680 square metre hall will offer improved facilities.
metres
▪ The central plaza of this city once covered 176,000 square metres.
▪ We are planning to launch a test sail of 400 square metres, by the end of next year.
▪ To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 square metres of exposed Chlorella.
▪ The algae tanks were stacked so they took less than 8 square metres floor space.
▪ The new plan measures 10,554 m2 of which only 8,322 square metres will be usable space.
▪ Linear measurements may be given either in imperial or metric units, but area is normally quoted in square metres.
▪ Only 10% of the total area, or approx. 1,500 square metres will be dedicated to displaying works of art.
▪ The new machine is capable of producing 800-1000 square metres daily and should be operational before the Christmas holidays.
mile
▪ The Exe Vale group served a largely rural area covering 2,000 square miles with a population of 600,000.
▪ Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.
▪ The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
▪ They filmed every aspect of life in an area of twenty-four square miles of north Oxfordshire.
▪ The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.
▪ A huge, 150 square mile, national forest is now in the process of being planted in the East Midlands.
▪ Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.
▪ They chose an area of twenty-four square miles in north Oxfordshire and spent a whole spring filming every aspect of life there.
miles
▪ The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
▪ Millions of us, natives and refugees, lived in those few hundred square miles.
▪ The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.
▪ Walkup counts among his first-year triumphs the annexation of 26 square miles of state trust land on the city's southeast side.
▪ A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.
▪ Since Thursday, he said, Coast Guard cutters and smaller boats have criss-crossed 17, 500 square miles.
▪ Fifty thousand square miles we covered.
▪ However, when magnified over millions of square miles of ocean, the energy forces affecting the atmosphere can be substantial.
room
▪ Dinner in Luigi's, coffee and then later red wine in Hudson's large square room.
▪ The interior was a large, square room.
▪ It was big, square room with a polished floor and a high ceiling.
root
▪ The distribution remains normal but the standard deviation decreases as the square root of n, the sample size.
▪ Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.
▪ Therefore, taking the square root of this measure we get the correlation coefficient; i.e.. 11.
▪ Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.
▪ Excluding the few outliers, we can calculate the square root of the average squared error over all subjects for each repetition.
▪ A number of early computers had an instruction to extract a square root, but nowadays this operation is achieved by software.
▪ Does this have a square root?
shoulder
▪ The kids are all scrubbed and coiffed, backpacks fitted firmly on square shoulders.
tower
▪ This square tower has circular turrets on each side, the whole making a fortified place of retreat.
▪ To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church.
▪ There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.
▪ After being severely damaged in a storm, the spire was replaced with a square tower in 1969.
▪ It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
▪ At Brantford rounded ends were combined with a square tower.
▪ The square tower is rib vaulted and its windows give good light to the cathedral.
yard
▪ A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.
▪ It seemed that there was not a square yard on the field free from fire.
▪ Sadler's used 1,900 square yards - made more impervious to the gas by an inner coat of rubber.
▪ I found where they had bedded down as a group, within about 50 square yards.
▪ You can buy them in boxes of four to cover an area of a square yard.
▪ The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 square yards.
▪ A carpet costing around £33 per square yard may seem an unromantic substitute for a honeymoon.
▪ All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
win (sth)/beat sb fair and square
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a square backyard
▪ a square corner
▪ It's important to be square with clients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was seated in a deep armchair with flat, square sides.
▪ In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.
▪ Rolling white sand dunes surrounded by a large oasis of swaying palm trees with a square fort in the middle.
▪ Roy Fredericks always favoured the square cut.
▪ The floor is only ten inches square so you can't sit down or squat in it.
▪ The pair moved down the centre line and halted square and dead centre.
▪ The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ At the end of the street, there's this big square with loads of people in it.
▪ When she surfaced it was to find that they were back at Piazzale Roma, the big square thronging as usual.
▪ He has a big square head, shaven almost bald; lots of gold teeth.
black
▪ When a player reaches a black square, they must answer three questions to reach Number 10.
▪ Below: A chance configuration of black squares.
▪ The black squares at the bottom are keys that can be pressed.
central
▪ Villereal was charming, and busy too, with its narrow streets and central square with a timbered-covered market.
▪ Urban scavengers have been banned from bagging doves and pigeons in the central squares.
▪ Mosaic C from North Hill and mosaic 7 both have flowers with elongated petals in their central squares.
▪ All three pavements appear to have had rosettes in the small squares which lie tangent to the central square.
▪ Black wishes to keep some central dark squares under control.
▪ The prefecture buildings on Kinkala's central square are also full of displaced persons.
▪ Secondly, the four-strand guilloche which encloses the central square is well drawn, but slightly inferior to the chain-guilloche.
dark
▪ However, Black's influence over the dark squares should be sufficient to maintain the balance.
▪ I looked at the dark blue square of the window.
▪ It was already dark but the square glowed with marquee brilliance, and none more brilliant than the Empire's.
▪ The rest of the dark square of floor is smooth and bare.
▪ The resulting dark squares and rectangles on the images are stone moats and reflecting pools around the temples.
▪ Half way up the wall there was a slightly darker square set into the blackness.
▪ Sam and Rose looked at each other and at the dark, empty square.
▪ Black wishes to keep some central dark squares under control.
fair
▪ But she loved him fair and square.
▪ I was only warning you fair and square.
▪ It had paid for its water, fair and square, and it wanted to let the valley survive.
inverse
▪ This volume property is characteristic of the inverse square law; it holds for no other law of force.
large
▪ Roll out half to a large square, place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing.
▪ I sat down in the chair and began sewing them together until they formed a large square.
▪ It was a large open square with low hedges enclosing six small gardens with bush-like trees.
▪ He had a large square head, strong features, the worried look of a rustic crossing streets in the capital.
▪ As the two small squares grow so the trio reaches a peak of energy and declines into a single large square.
▪ They came to a large square, dazzling white from swirling snowdrifts.
▪ When the drawer was open she took out a large square package wrapped in newspaper and held it out for him.
little
▪ I stared at the innocent little square of foil on the counter.
▪ The set came equipped with chemicals, minerals, and various treated papers all in little square bottles.
▪ All the shops were closed and there was a Sunday peace in the little square.
▪ Their job, as they perceived it, was to fill little squares with people.
▪ The little square was relatively sheltered, and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant, muffled roar.
▪ Flavia was there so early that she ran into Therese in the little square where people left their cars.
▪ Divide the square into 49 little squares with a knife by marking six evenly-spaced lines vertically and six horizontally.
main
▪ Then he hurried away towards the main square.
▪ The Handbook suggested a Ricardo Quispe Mamani who also had a small restaurant on the main square.
▪ The main square holds the three buildings of importance.
▪ Participants said the city's main square was filled to capacity.
▪ It's across the main square in the town centre.
▪ In many towns and villages the local population gathers round the main square, or church.
▪ To park the bikes we had to strike a deal with the children in the main square.
▪ The mayor of Bucharest on Aug. 28 declared an indefinite ban on all meetings and demonstrations in central Bucharest's main squares.
open
▪ Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square.
▪ My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.
▪ For this, it had to be given lungs, in the shape of open spaces, squares, parks and gardens.
▪ It was a large open square with low hedges enclosing six small gardens with bush-like trees.
▪ The monastery takes the form of an open square in which the two churches stand.
▪ He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees.
proportional
▪ They are also cost-effective, as the cost of a missile is roughly proportional to the square of its range.
▪ At speeds low compared with light, the temporal retardation is proportional to the square of your speed.
▪ Because the energy of a moving body is proportional to the square of the velocity.
▪ The increase of confinement time with radius follows approximately a diffusion law-confinement time proportional to the square of the radius.
▪ The centripetal force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the centre.
public
▪ In the presence of a large crowd in a public square the messengers shouted vulgar abuse at Vuk.
▪ Simultaneously, he said, public places like squares, parks and plazas would be liberally placed where people could congregate.
▪ Yet for a work in a public square this is an interesting aspect of art criticism.
▪ A focal point of the development will be a public square created in front of the main entrance.
▪ He sets out; he arrives at the public square, which is crowded with an eager excited throng.
▪ That was the same year in which Admiral Kolchak was executed in the main public square.
▪ One young man, unable to tolerate the thought, burned himself alive in a public square.
small
▪ The horse turned into a courtyard where he slowed down, trotting round the small square.
▪ It is carved into small squares and rolled up inside a thin wheat pancake with hoisin sauce and spring onions.
▪ Then each Girl put her heels into a small square on the stage floor, connecting up with the power source.
▪ She folded and refolded her Kleenex into smaller and smaller squares.
▪ After eating a small square of chocolate he became very aggressive and rushed around the house frantically banging doors and kicking furniture.
▪ The main temple complex of Angkor Wat is readily visible as a small square bounded with black.
▪ A rectangle is subdivided into one large and two small squares such that the overlap is constant width.
tiny
▪ Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls, their tiny squares making up life-size portraits.
▪ Jell-O with tiny square pieces of fruit in it.
▪ Though the steady march of grey clouds, a tiny square of blue emerges.
▪ Dennis cut his veal assiduously into tiny squares and piled them into a pyramid that he then inhaled in a single gulp.
▪ Margaret fell in love with a muted green-based carpet with a pattern of tiny red squares woven around the borders.
▪ A wriggling snake moves one tiny square at a time, changing direction as you press buttons.
▪ Flora and I were walking through the palm grove, on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley.
▪ Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.
white
▪ Walk carefully, keep to the white squares.
▪ Glover had closed his eyes and seen white squares burned into his lids.
▪ She had religiously adhered to the white squares.
■ NOUN
foot
▪ The compellingly simple design of six foot square of sheer glass frightens me.
▪ The room was about twelve foot square and lit by a fluorescent tube running almost the full length of the ceiling.
▪ In Leeds in the early nineteenth century the average cottage was fifteen foot square.
market
▪ The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square.
▪ For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.
▪ The students give it liveliness: motorbikes in the market square and a bit of noise in the bars.
▪ It combines the delightful atmosphere of an Oxford market square with every modern amenity for comfortable and practical living today.
▪ Those who arrived late had to listen to the Archbishop's address relayed over loudspeakers placed around the market square.
▪ Stephen took particular note of it after he had taken Lyn to the Mootwalk and parked the car in the market square.
▪ It must be the market square, Theda decided, glancing about and finding odd shapes that looked like empty barrows.
▪ Jenna was still smiling as she pulled into the market square and locked her car.
metre
▪ He finds 48-50 distinct genotypes present per metre square.
mile
▪ There are far more kangaroos per square mile than humans.
town
▪ I was leaving an office in a busy New Town square.
▪ Nowadays, the battlefield is an opera stage, at Sebastiani Theatre on the town square.
▪ The old town square was filled with people and the jubilant sound of the marching band as performers juggled fire.
▪ In Fellini, the town square is never felt to be the social center of a community.
▪ Here the narrow streets lead to a town square shaded with trees.
▪ Surrounding the town square were numerous small buildings, including the courthouse.
▪ They jogged round a corner, and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat, Arizona.
▪ Try Bashford Court, across the street from the town square.
village
▪ There is a long promenade to stroll down, but the focal point of the resort is the village square.
▪ The village square has a fine pink and grey frontón, and promising-looking hotels.
▪ The central point is the village square and harbour, and there is also a very pleasant lakeside promenade.
▪ Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.
▪ It has a large, imposing church in the recently modernized village square which is complete with fountain and aviary.
▪ When they stopped in the village square, Sergeant Adams gave them leave to sit down while officers went in search of billets.
▪ Ocobamba is a little village with a church, barracks and a village square.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Serve warm, cut into neat squares for tapas, or quarters if it is to be the centrepiece of the meal.
▪ Bake for 50 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares.
▪ Still staring down, he began to cut another square of bread.
▪ Cool at room temperature and cut into squares.
▪ Pour into greased square pan and cool. Cut into 1-inch squares.
▪ Attach the post anchors to the posts, making sure the post bottoms are cut square and treated with extra wood preservative.
▪ Sprinkle with cheese. Cut into wedges or squares and separate slightly to have crisp edges.
enclose
▪ Secondly, the four-strand guilloche which encloses the central square is well drawn, but slightly inferior to the chain-guilloche.
fill
▪ You could then fill the left-hand square with a design and create a mirror image of the design in the right-hand square.
▪ Their job, as they perceived it, was to fill little squares with people.
▪ The Saturday morning market fills two huge squares in the town of Arras and locals also seek the bargains.
▪ The huge crowd proceeded from outside the church to fill the largest square in the city, Karl Marx Square.
form
▪ Less efficient is square packing where the centres of four adjacent spheres form a square.
▪ I sat down in the chair and began sewing them together until they formed a large square.
▪ It forms a perfect square, with five bays on every side with the huge segmental pediments above.
occupy
▪ A number of beautifully modelled playing pieces were now occupying some of the squares.
▪ Our plot occupied a compact square nested in a palm of earth on the eastern side of the river.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
3/9/10 etc squared
win (sth)/beat sb fair and square
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you been to the bank on the square?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arrange pheasant pieces on individual plates and place one of the polenta squares on the side of each serving.
▪ Check the saw blade with a square to make sure.
▪ One after another, they gather near the Stone County courthouse square.
▪ The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square.
▪ They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin, for decency she supposed.
▪ When a player reaches a black square, they must answer three questions to reach Number 10.
▪ Yesterday, Mr Dubcek's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ He scrubbed the brightwork in the head, squared away his area, made up his rack.
▪ Everything seems squared away, she thinks.
off
▪ Screened porches were meant to have been added, squaring off the blocks of 100 flats for retired church folk.
▪ Raines retained Abner Burnett of Midland, and the two squared off for a legal battle.
▪ There are 7-8 distinctly flattened, finely rugose arm spines, with the tips squared off.
▪ Phil Gramm, against whom he will square off in the Louisiana caucuses next week, his strongest opponent.
▪ Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants, while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted.
▪ The winner will square off against Phelps, 38, in the November general election.
▪ Cut out your embryo bud as before, but this time squaring off the base rather than the top of the shield.
▪ His face was big and jowly and squared off.
up
▪ Does your memory square up with Jo's?
▪ He squared up his scholar's stoop and took another deep breath.
▪ More people want to eat meat and the two don't square up.
■ NOUN
circle
▪ The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once.
▪ This squaring of the circle is the hardest of their tasks.
▪ There is no sureness of touch, no deft ability to square circles as and when required.
▪ This is as difficult as trying to square a circle.
▪ Where are the leaders who can square this vicious circle?
▪ The only way of squaring the circle to Moscow's satisfaction would be to send in troops.
▪ On his last point, Labour has manifestly failed to square the circle.
▪ Britain, ever the Atlanticist, tried to square the circle, and usually failed.
million
▪ The center handles 6, 000 high-altitude planes a day over seven states and more than 3 million square miles of ocean.
▪ Beacon will acquire 3. 3 million square feet of space, bringing its total portfolio to 10 million square feet.
shoulder
▪ Reagan went through the ceremonies like a President, shoulders squared, features composed, every gesture correct.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Braves beat the Twins and squared the World Series at two games each.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I have no idea how Eva squared it with her husband, but she did.
▪ Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children.
▪ The confused events of the 450s and 460s are not easily squared with the literary image of the period purveyed by Sidonius.
▪ Then she squared her shoulders and headed indoors.
IV.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ We must be square in the middle of it.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
square

Rhomb \Rhomb\ (r[o^]mb or r[o^]m; 277), n. [L. rhombus, Gr. "ro`mbos rhomb, a spinning top, magic wheel, fr. "re`mbein to turn or whirl round, perhaps akin to E. wrench: cf. F. rhombe. Cf. Rhombus, Rhumb.]

  1. (Geom.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.

  2. (Geom.) A rhombohedron.

    Fresnel's rhomb (Opt.), a rhomb or oblique parallelopiped of crown or St. Gobain glass so cut that a ray of light entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse.
    --Nichol.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
square

mid-13c., "tool for measuring right angles, carpenter's square," from Old French esquire "a square, squareness," from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, back-formation from *exquadrare "to square," from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + quadrare "make square, set in order, complete," from quadrus "a square" (see quadrant).\n

\nMeaning "square shape or area" is recorded by late 14c. (Old English used feower-scyte). Geometric sense "four-sided rectilinear figure" is from 1550s; mathematical sense of "a number multiplied by itself" is first recorded 1550s. Sense of "open space in a town or park" is from 1680s; that of "area bounded by four streets in a city" is from c.1700. As short for square meal, from 1882. Square one "the very beginning" (often what one must go back to) is from 1960, probably a figure from board games.

square

early 14c., "containing four equal sides and right angles," from square (n.), or from Old French esquarre, past participle of esquarrer. Meaning "honest, fair," is first attested 1560s; that of "straight, direct" is from 1804. Of meals, from 1868.\n

\nSense of "old-fashioned" is 1944, U.S. jazz slang, said to be from shape of a conductor's hand gestures in a regular four-beat rhythm. Square-toes meant nearly the same thing late 18c.: "precise, formal, old-fashioned person," from the style of men's shoes worn early 18c. and then fallen from fashion. Squaresville is attested from 1956. Square dance attested by 1831; originally one in which the couples faced inward from four sides; later of country dances generally.\n\n[T]he old square dance is an abortive attempt at conversation while engaged in walking certain mathematical figures over a limited area.

[March 1868]

square

late 14c. of stones, from Old French esquarrer, escarrer "to cut square," from Vulgar Latin *exquadrare (see square (adj.)). Meaning "regulate according to standard" is from 1530s; sense of "to accord with" is from 1590s. With reference to accounts from 1815. In 15c.-17c. the verb also could mean "to deviate, vary, digress, fall out of order." Related: Squared; squaring.

square

1570s, "fairly, honestly," from square (adj.). From 1630s as "directly, in line." Sense of "completely" is American-English, colloquial, by 1862.

Related phrases:
Wiktionary
square

  1. Shaped like a square#Noun (the polygon). n. 1 (context geometry English) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees. 2 An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles. 3 An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye. 4 A cell in a grid. 5 (context mathematics English) The second power of a number, value, term or expression. 6 (context military English) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation. 7 (context slang English) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s 8 (context British English) The symbol # on a telephone; hash. 9 (context cricket English) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitch of which only one is used at a time. 10 (context real estate jargon English) 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. 11 (context roofing English) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area. 12 (context North America English) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert. 13 (context academia English) A mortarboard 14 (context colloquial US English) A square meal. 15 A pane of glass. 16 (context printing English) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers. 17 (context archaic English) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. 18 The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level. 19 (context astrology English) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. 20 (context dated English) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel. 21 The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. 22 (lb en slang) (l en cigarette Cigarette). v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else. 2 To resolve. 3 To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony ''with'' something. 4 (context transitive mathematics English) Of a value, term(,) or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power. 5 (context transitive English) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a #Noun with the same area as. 6 (context soccer English) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

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square

  1. adj. having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner" [ant: round]

  2. leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square" [syn: square(p)]

  3. characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing" [syn: straight]

  4. without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" [syn: square(a), straightforward]

  5. rigidly conventional or old-fashioned [syn: straight]

square

  1. adv. in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me" [syn: squarely]

  2. with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square" [syn: squarely]

  3. in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square" [syn: squarely]

  4. firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy" [syn: squarely]

square

  1. n. (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" [syn: foursquare]

  2. the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance" [syn: second power]

  3. an open area at the meeting of two or more streets [syn: public square]

  4. something approximating the shape of a square

  5. someone who doesn't understand what is going on [syn: lame]

  6. a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views [syn: square toes]

  7. any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"

  8. 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

  1. v. raise to the second power

  2. make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file" [syn: square up]

  3. cause to match, as of ideas or acts

  4. position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"

  5. be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"

  6. pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"

  7. turn the paddle; in canoeing [syn: feather]

  8. turn the oar, while rowing [syn: feather]

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Square (disambiguation)

A square is a regular quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles.

Square may also refer to:

Square (company)

was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masashi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became Square Enix. The company also used SquareSoft as a brand name to refer to their games, and the term is occasionally used to refer to the company itself. In addition, "Squaresoft, Inc" was the name of the company's American arm before the merger, after which it was renamed to "Square Enix, Inc".

Square (cipher)

In cryptography, Square (sometimes written SQUARE) is a block cipher invented by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The design, published in 1997, is a forerunner to Rijndael, which has been adopted as the Advanced Encryption Standard. Square was introduced together with a new form of cryptanalysis discovered by Lars Knudsen, called the " Square attack".

The structure of Square is a substitution-permutation network with eight rounds, operating on 128-bit blocks and using a 128-bit key.

Square is not patented.

Square

In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90- degree angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle in which two adjacent sides have equal length. A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted .

Square (algebra)

thumb|right|168px |, or (5 squared), can be shown graphically using a square. Each block represents one unit, , and the entire square represents , or the area of the square. In mathematics, a square is the result of multiplying a number by itself. The verb "to square" is used to denote this operation. Squaring is the same as raising to the power 2, and is denoted by a superscript 2; for instance, the square of 3 may be written as 3, which is the number 9. In some cases when superscripts are not available, as for instance in programming languages or plain text files, the notations x^2 or x**2 may be used in place of x.

The adjective which corresponds to squaring is quadratic.

The square of an integer may also be called a square number or a perfect square. In algebra, the operation of squaring is often generalized to polynomials, other expressions, or values in systems of mathematical values other than the numbers. For instance, the square of the linear polynomial is the quadratic polynomial .

One of the important properties of squaring, for numbers as well as in many other mathematical systems, is that (for all numbers ), the square of is the same as the square of its additive inverse . That is, the square function satisfies the identity . This can also be expressed by saying that the squaring function is an even function.

Square (slang)

Square used as slang may mean many things when referring to a person or in common language. It is often used to speak of a person who is regarded as dull, rigidly conventional, and out of touch with current trends.

In referring to a person, the word originally meant someone who was honest, traditional and loyal. An agreement that is equitable on all sides is a "square deal". During the rise of jazz music, the term transformed from a compliment to an insult.

Square (album)

Square is a studio album by Canadian hip hop musician Buck 65. It was released on WEA in 2002. Though it consists of four tracks, each track consists of multiple songs.

It was nominated for the 2003 Juno Awards for Alternative Album of the Year and Album Design of the Year.

Square (sailing)

The term to square a yard is used when sailing a square-rigged ship.

To "square a yard" is to lay the yards at right angles to the line of the keel by trimming with the braces.

Square (formation)
Square (unit)

The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the United States construction industry, and was historically used in Australia. One square is equal to 100 square feet. Examples where the unit is used are roofing shingles, metal roofing, vinyl siding, and fibercement siding products. Some home builders use squares as a unit in floor plans to customers.

Buildings in Australia no longer use the square as a unit of measure, and has been replaced by square metres. The measurement was often used by estate agents to make the building sound larger as the measure includes the areas outside under the eaves, and so cannot be directly compared to the internal floor area. Residential Buildings in the state of Victoria, Australia are sometimes still advertised in squares.

Square (band)

Square was a short-lived musical trio from Lincoln, Nebraska who moved to Southern California in early 2000. It was composed of Sean Beste (vocals and keyboards), James Valentine (guitars) and Ryland Steen (drums). Their sound has been described as including elements of rock, pop, and jazz fusion.

The band moved to Orange County after entering an Ernie Ball-sponsored band competition. They won the grand prize, beating 600 other entrants. Shortly after winning the competition, they released their only full-length album, This Magnificent , on an indie label called Lucy Smith Music. The band started playing many gigs in the area, including some with local band Kara's Flowers.

In 2001, the members of Kara's Flowers asked Valentine to join their group, an invitation that he accepted, effectively dissolving Square. Kara's Flowers changed its name to Maroon 5 and became one of the most commercially successful acts of the mid-2000s. Steen later joined the established ska band Reel Big Fish. Beste (who was initially upset and unhappy by Valentine's decision to leave Square but says he no longer harbors any ill will) started a band called The Excuse and moved to Portland, Oregon for several years. He has since returned to the Los Angeles area and has done some work with the band Maxeen.

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Usage examples of "square".

So there they abode a space looking down on the square and its throng, and the bells, which had been ringing when they came up, now ceased a while.

It still reverberated, though Ilna had noticed that the acoustics of this great square room were wretchedly bad.

Peslar Square, and you could convince an adjudicator that your charge was reasonable, the adjudicator could order your alibi archive or mine unlocked for the time span in question, which would prove that I am innocent.

A horse down with the aftosa need a sight of heroin to ease his pain and maybe some of that heroin take off across the lonesome prairie and whinny in Washington Square.

As he explained in Collected Words, there were a number of technical problems to be allowed for in the poster: Because the sheet was folded three times to bring it to the square shape for insertion into the album, the composition was interestingly complicated by the need to consider it as a series of subsidiary compositions.

The Please Please Me album cover had been taken on the stairwell at EMI Manchester Square by the veteran photographer Angus McBean.

Flewelling Alec and Micum met Myrhini in a darkened square near Hind Street.

With Seregil hunkered down beside him, Alec scooped out the sand and uncovered a square niche sunk into the stone.

Paul found himself wishing he did not have quite such a prominent alestake after all, but he took a deep breath, squared his shoulders with resolution, and scurried inside.

The authentic city-man, to whom all properly planned Nature is of cement evenly marked out in squares, may for half an hour be able to admire the alienage of a Vermont valley with woods sloping up to a stalwart peak, even though he may not be sure whether the trees are date-palms or monkey-puzzles, and whether the hazy mountain is built of reinforced concrete or merely green-painted brick.

Since there can be only as many rows as there are letters in the alphabet, the tableau is square.

It was no more than ten foot square, low-ceilinged with a solitary window set high in the wall, which gave it the ambience of a dungeon.

From half an hour after training, to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards, it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV - a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis.

The city covers about a zillion square miles of desert, but half of that is perched on inaccessible crags that even Angelites avoid.

It stared above his head at one of its fellows on the opposite side of the square apse, but Yama fancied that he saw its eyes flicker toward him for an instant.