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SQUARE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
Example:
the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "square"):
carpenter's square (a steel square used by carpenters; larger than a try square)
try square (a square having a metal ruler set at right angles to another straight piece)
T-square (a square used by draftsmen to draw parallel lines)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
Example:
a checkerboard has 64 squares
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
Holonyms ("square" is a part of...):
checker board; checkerboard (a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors)
Derivation:
square (make square)
square (position so as to be square)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An open area at the meeting of two or more streets
Synonyms:
public square; square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "square"):
piazza; place; plaza (a public square with room for pedestrians)
Instance hyponyms:
Trafalgar Square (a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson)
Holonyms ("square" is a part of...):
city (an incorporated administrative district established by state charter)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
Synonyms:
square; square toes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
conservative; conservativist (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Someone who doesn't understand what is going on
Synonyms:
lame; square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The product of two equal terms
Example:
gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
Synonyms:
second power; square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)
Derivation:
square (raise to the second power)
Sense 7
Meaning:
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
Example:
you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides
Synonyms:
foursquare; square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
regular polygon (a polygon with all sides and all angles equal)
rectangle (a parallelogram with four right angles)
Domain category:
geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "square"):
quadrate (a square-shaped object)
Derivation:
square (make square)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Something approximating the shape of a square
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("square" is a kind of...):
form; shape (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Synonyms:
square; straight
Classified under:
Similar:
conventional (unimaginative and conformist)
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without evasion or compromise
Example:
he is not being as straightforward as it appears
Synonyms:
square; straight; straightforward
Classified under:
Similar:
direct (straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Leaving no balance
Example:
my account with you is now all square
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
paid (marked by the reception of pay)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
Example:
a square corner
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
squarish (somewhat square in appearance or form)
squared (having been made square)
right-angled (forming a right angle or containing one or more right angles)
quadrate (having four sides and four angles)
Also:
angular; angulate (having angles or an angular shape)
Antonym:
round (having the shape or form of a circle)
Derivation:
squareness (the property of being shaped like a square)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Characterized by honesty and fairness
Example:
a square deal
Synonyms:
square; straight
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
aboveboard; straightforward (without concealment or deception; honest)
guileless; transparent (free of deceit)
straightarrow (conventionally moral and upright)
Also:
honest; honorable (not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent)
lawful (conformable to or allowed by law)
Attribute:
honestness; honesty (the quality of being honest)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Providing abundant nourishment
Example:
four square meals a day
Synonyms:
hearty; satisfying; solid; square; substantial
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they square ... he / she / it squares
Past simple: squared
Past participle: squared
-ing form: squaring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make square
Example:
square the wood with a file
Synonyms:
square; square up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
form; shape (give shape or form to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
square (any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles)
square ((geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Raise to the second power
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
multiply (combine by multiplication)
Domain category:
arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
square (the product of two equal terms)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Turn the oar, while rowing
Synonyms:
feather; square
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
row (propel with oars)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Turn the paddle; in canoeing
Synonyms:
feather; square
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
paddle (propel with a paddle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 5
Meaning:
Position so as to be square
Example:
He squared his shoulders
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
position (cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "square"):
even up; jog; square up (even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
square (any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Pay someone and settle a debt
Example:
I squared with him
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 7
Meaning:
Be compatible with
Example:
one idea squares with another
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 8
Meaning:
Cause to match, as of ideas or acts
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "square" is one way to...):
adapt; adjust; conform (adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Firmly and solidly
Example:
planted his great bulk square before his enemy
Synonyms:
square; squarely
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a square shape
Example:
folded the sheet of paper square
Synonyms:
square; squarely
Classified under:
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a straight direct way
Example:
ran square into me
Synonyms:
square; squarely
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
Over all this vast meadow there lay a great city of tents—thousands upon thousands of them, laid out in streets and in squares like a well-ordered town.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A unit of area equal to 100 square meters.
(Are, NCI Thesaurus)
Antarctic sea ice during June was 380,000 square miles (7.2 percent) above the 1981–2010 average.
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
A solid or semi-solid in the shape of a three dimensional square.
(Cube Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
Days times femtograms per milliliter, divided by kilograms per meter squared.
(Day Times Femtogram per Milliliter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
Those whose training began more than 6 hours later remained afraid of the squares.
(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)
No injuries were reported, but some 80 million trees over 830 square miles were leveled.
(Dangerous Asteroid Could Hit Earth At Any Moment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That can increase food by 30 billion kilograms based on the calculation of at least 300 kilograms per 667 square meters.
(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
As a comparison, a typical terrestrial forest stores about 30,000 metric tons per square kilometer, mostly in the form of wood.
(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)
Days times femtograms per milliliter, divided by meters squared.
(Day Times Femtogram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
