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Sounds | skweh'r |
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Rhymes | affair, air, airfare, and 109 more rhymes in ehr at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle. |
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Examples | "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner" |
Similar | quadrate; right-angled; squared; squarish |
See also | angular, angulate |
Contrary | round, circular |
Adverbs | squarely |
Meaning | Leaving no balance. |
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Examples | "my account with you is now all square" |
Similar to | paid |
Usage | colloquialism |
Meaning | Characterized by honesty and fairness. |
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Examples | "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing" |
Synonyms | straight |
Similar to | honest, honorable |
Adverbs | squarely |
Meaning | Without evasion or compromise. |
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Examples | "a square contradiction" |
Synonyms | straightforward |
Similar to | direct |
Adverbs | squarely |
Meaning | Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned. |
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Synonyms | straight |
Similar to | conventional |
Usage | cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular |
Meaning | (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles. A four-sided regular polygon. |
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Examples | "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides" |
Synonyms | foursquare |
Category | geometry |
Narrower | quadrate |
Broader | regular polygon; rectangle |
Adjectives | quadratic |
Verbs | square |
Meaning | The product of two equal terms. |
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Examples | "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance" |
Synonyms | second power |
Broader | number |
Adjectives | quadratic |
Verbs | square |
Meaning | An open area at the meeting of two or more streets. |
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Synonyms | public square |
Part of | city |
Narrower | Trafalgar Square; plaza, place, piazza |
Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
Meaning | Something approximating the shape of a square. |
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Broader | shape, form |
Meaning | Someone who doesn't understand what is going on. |
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Synonyms | lame |
Broader | simpleton, simple |
Meaning | A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views. |
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Synonyms | square toes |
Broader | conservative, conservativist |
Usage | colloquialism |
Meaning | Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles. |
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Examples | "a checkerboard has 64 squares" |
Part of | checkerboard |
Broader | artifact, artefact |
Verbs | square; square |
Meaning | A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles. Used to construct or test right angles. |
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Examples | "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square" |
Narrower | carpenter's square; try square; T-square |
Broader | hand tool |
Meaning | In a straight direct way. |
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Examples | "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me" |
Synonyms | squarely |
Meaning | With honesty and fairness. |
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Examples | "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square" |
Synonyms | squarely |
Meaning | In a square shape. |
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Examples | "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square" |
Synonyms | squarely |
Meaning | Firmly and solidly. |
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Examples | "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy" |
Synonyms | squarely |
Meaning | Raise to the second power. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Category | arithmetic |
Broader | multiply |
Nouns | square |
Meaning | Make square. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file" |
Synonyms | square up |
Broader | shape, form |
Nouns | square; square |
Meaning | Cause to match, as of ideas or acts. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Broader | adjust, conform, adapt |
Meaning | Position so as to be square. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He squared his shoulders" |
Narrower | square up, jog, even up |
Broader | position |
Nouns | square |
Meaning | Be compatible with. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "one idea squares with another" |
Broader | match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree |
Meaning | Pay someone and settle a debt. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "I squared with him" |
Broader | settle |
Meaning | Turn the paddle. In canoeing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | feather |
Broader | paddle |
Meaning | Turn the oar, while rowing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | feather |
Broader | row |