Word Finder - square

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A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.

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• tetragon

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Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.

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An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

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• carpenter's square
• framing square
• steel square

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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.

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• piazza
• plaza

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The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.

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64 is the square of 8.

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A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

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(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.

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Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!

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The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

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Enter your account number followed by a square.

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• hash
• pound sign
• sharp

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The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

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An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.

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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.

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(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

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(academia) A mortarboard

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A square meal.

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Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.

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Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

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The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

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The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

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The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.

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Cigarette.

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A vat used for fermentation.

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To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:

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The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.

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To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.

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John can square this question up for us.

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To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

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I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.

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Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

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To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.

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square the circle

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To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

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To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

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To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

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To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

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To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.

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To form with four sides and four right angles.

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To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

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to square mason's work

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To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

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To hold a quartile position respecting.

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Shaped like a square (the polygon).

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Forming a right angle, especially 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.

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a square corner

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• normal
• orthogonal
• perpendicular

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Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.

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9 is a square number.

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Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

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square metre

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Honest; straightforward.

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square dealing

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• above board
• on the level
• on the square
• on the up and up
• straight

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Fair.

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I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.

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Even; tied

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The sides were square at the end of the half.

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Socially conventional; boring.

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• bourgeois

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In line with the batsman's popping crease.

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Correctly aligned with respect to something else.

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Hearty; vigorous.

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It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.

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Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

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a man of a square frame

This area is ten square miles, though.

On the square in front of the Bazaar were drummers beating the muster call.

The square patch of light woke her.

The micrometer readings for coincidence of the movable webs with the webs of the fixed square shall be exactly 0 000R and io-000R.

The 'holding cell' was a lavishly appointed 700 square foot room.

How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country?

The crossing is surmounted by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by a fine square tower over 160 ft.

She threw the egg at him and it landed square in the middle of his forehead.

The micrometer is provided with a " fixed square " 5 mm.

The old courthouse was a massive structure dominating the town square.

She trotted through the square until she found it and crouched beside it to see names at the very bottom, the names of the nobles' servants.

It was made of two white pine logs dug out and pinned together, and was cut off square at the ends.

She crossed to the boxes she had stacked in the corner and covered with a square of cloth.

The outline turned to a bright square of light, and she followed him again.

Kyaukse town is situated on the Zawgyi River and on the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, and is well laid out in regular streets, covering an area of about a square mile.

The church of the Holy Trinity, the oldest part of which dates from about 1 200, is a Gothic building with five aisles and a square tower.

A memorial in Church Square commemorates the Franklin expedition to the discovery of the North-West Passage, and in particular Captain Francis Crozier, who was born at Banbridge in 1796 and served on the expedition.

By means of the quick rack motions A and B move the plate so as to bring the reseau-square into the centre of the field of the micrometer; then, by means of the screw heads o, p, perfect the coincidence of the " fixed square " of webs, with the image of the reseau-square.

The interior of the mosque is square and is divided into aisles by columns joined by Moorish arches.

The mouth may be a simple, circular pore at the extremity of the manubrium, or by folding of the edges it may become square or shaped like a Maltese cross, with four corners and four lips.

In the centre of the city stands the unfinished Belfry (Beffroi), a square tower some 300 ft.

To the north of the Oudeburg, on the other side of the Lys, is the Marche du Vendredi, the principal square of the city.

The maximum rate of combustion may be as much as so lb of coal per square foot of grate per hour, and in exceptional cases even a greater rate than this has been maintained.

In general his object is to reduce the final equation to a simple one by making such an assumption for the side of the square or cube to which the expression in x is to be equal as will make the necessary number of coefficients vanish.

Lastly, the square was extended southwards in the 16th century, when the new palace of the procurators, K, was built by Scamozzi.

In the north portico a square hole in the floor, with a corresponding hole in the roof above it, must have given access to another sacred object, the mark of Poseidon's trident in the rock.

Arrived at the place of burial, the body was set in a square pit with spears marking out its sides and a roof of matting.

To the west of the main shaft were three square pits with horses and their harness, and by them two pits with men's skeletons.

In general, the use of a square or rectangular cloth (whether folded diagonally or not) corresponds to the modern keffiyeh woven with long fringes which are plaited into cords knitted at the ends or worked into little balls sewn over with coloured silks and golden From Palestine Exploration Fund threads.

It was a square piece of woollen stuff about a foot longer than the height of the wearer, and equal in breadth to twice the span of the arms measured from wrist to wrist.

The houses of this city had many corners, being square and six-sided and eight-sided.

At a corner of the square is a remarkable cannon, known as Dulle Griete (Mad Meg), 19 ft.

Its chief remains of antiquity are a square peel-tower and the cruciform church of St Andrew, of which part of the fabric is of pre-Conquest date, though the building is mainly Early English.

The Hauraki Gulf, a great square inlet opening northward, is studded with islands of considerable elevation; Rangitoto, which protects the harbour, is a volcanic cone reaching nearly l000 ft.

The leaves of most mosses are flat plates, each consisting of a single layer of square or oblong assimilating (chlorophyllous) cells.

Hemsley remarks that the northerr genus Erica, which covers thousands of square miles in Europe with very few species, is represented by hundreds of species in I comparatively small area in South Africa.

One end of the hippodrome was semicircular, and the other end square with an extensive portico, in front of which, at a lower level, were the stalls for the horses and chariots.

The principal building is the state capitol (completed in 1857) in a square of ten acres at the intersection of High and Broad streets.

The former, standing on the south side of the market square, is a Gothic structure, erected in 1353-1370 on the ruins of Charlemagne's palace.

There are many fine streets and squares and some handsome public monuments, notably among the last the fountain on the market square surmounted by a statue of Charlemagne, the bronze equestrian statue of the emperor William I.

The city's park system includes the Western Promenade, on Bramhall Hill; the Eastern Promenade, on Munjoy Hill; Fort Allen Park, at the south extremity of the latter promenade; Fort Sumner, another small park farther west, on the same hill; Lincoln Park, containing 2 acres of beautiful grounds near the centre of the city; Deering's Oaks (made famous by Longfellow), the principal park (50 acres) on the peninsula, with many fine old trees, pleasant drives, and an artificial pond used for boating; and Monument Square and Boothby Square.

The shrine of Imam Reza is the most venerated spot in Persia, and yearly visited by more than 100,000 pilgrims. Eastwick thus describes it (Journal of a Diplomat's Three Years' Residence in Persia, London, 1864) "The quadrangle of the shrine seemed to be about 150 paces square.

The height to the top of this square wall must have been 90 or 100 ft.

The holes are so placed that the log-ship will hang square from the span thus formed.

The plan of the Propylaea consists of a large square hall, from which five steps lead up to a wall pierced by five gateways of graduated sizes, the central one giving passage to a road suitable for beasts or possibly for vehicles.

The abdomen is oval, sandy-grey in hue and beset with warts and bristles; the prothorax forms a mobile neck for the large square head, which carries a pair of long and powerful toothed mandibles.

Let p be the mean pressure in pounds per square inch, calculated from an indicator diagram taken from a particular cylinder when the speed of the crank-shaft is n revolutions per second.

A few experimental results are set forth in Table XX., from which it will be seen that with a relatively low rate of combustion, a rate which denotes very light service, namely lb of coal per square foot of grate per hour, the efficiency of the boiler is %, which is as good a result as can be obtained with the best class of stationary boiler or marine boiler even when using economizers.

Let the boiler pressure be 175 lb per square inch.

Taking 85% of this, the maximum mean effective pressure would be 149 lb per square inch.