From en.wiktionary.org:
[Square]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm]; from [en], [fro], (modern [fr]), from [en], from [en]
[la], from [la] (compare [en] and [en]). [en].
[ang] ([ang] nominative + [ang] accusative, as in "four-edged").
*** Pronunciation
- [skwâr] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [skwûr] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [skwîr] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] A [en] with four straight sides of equal length and four [en] ; an [en] [en] ; a [en] [en] .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1927 | author=w:Kazimir Malevich | title=The Non-Objective World
|passage=I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which
consisted of nothing more than a black SQUARE on a white field.}}
1. [en] Something characterized by a square , or nearly square, form.
1. A [en] in a [en] .
2. A square piece, part, or surface.
3. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
4. [en] A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
5. [en] A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column , nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
2. [en] An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw line s at right angle s.
3. * [1=en]
1. [en] A true measure, standard, or pattern.
4. [en] 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.
5. * {{ RQ:Addison Italy
|passage=The statue of Alexander the Seventh stands in the large SQUARE of the
town.}}
1. * {{ quote-av | en | date=October 10 1995 | title= Runa Simi: NewsRadio | season=2 | number=3
|passage=You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow
wandering into the town SQUARE.}}
1. [en] A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
1. [en] [en] The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number , value , term or expression .
2. [en] A pattern to be match ed that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
3. [en] A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
4. * [act=3]
5. * 1818 , quoted in Christopher Kelly, _History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event_
6. *: The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly charged our SQUARES , their cannon opening chasms; but the British infantry, though greatly diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable to the last.
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1897 | author=w:Henry Newbolt | title=Vitae Lampada
|passage=The sand of the desert is sodden red,— <br> Red with the wreck of a
SQUARE that broke;— <br> The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, <br> And
the regiment blind with dust and smoke.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1990 | author=w:Peter Hopkirk | title=The Great Game | page=144 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2010
|passage=After disastrous attempts to break the Russian SQUARES, during which,
Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to
their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.}}
1. [en] [en] A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fad s or trend s.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=1949-03-11 | work=Courier | title=R.S.V.P. | location=Harvey, IL | publisher=Thornton Junior College
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/thortoncourier1948sscy/page/n39/mode/2up|page=3|volume=xv|issue=9|passage=Good
looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's a SQUARE.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] The symbol # on a telephone ; hash .
4. [en] [en] The central area of a cricket field , with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
5. [en] [en] 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 metre s. 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.
6. * 2006 , [Macquarie Bank] (Australia), press release _Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared"_ , 21 June 2006 see http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm
7. *: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the SQUARE
8. * 2007 , Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania see http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php
9. *: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 SQUARES of living space plus over 13 SQUARES of decking area on 3 sides and 17 SQUARES of garage and workshop downstairs.
10. [en] [en] A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
11. [en] [en] A mortarboard .
12. [en] [en] [en] .
13. [en] [en] Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
14. * 1594-1597 , [Richard Hooker] , _Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie_
15. *: They of Galatia [ were ] much more out of SQUARE .
16. * [act=II]
17. [en] The relation of harmony , or exact agreement ; equality ; level .
18. * [3]
19. [en] [en] The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate .
20. [en] [en] The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel .
21. [en] [en] [en] .
22. [en] [en] A vat used for fermentation .
23. [en] [en] A well- defined torso .
24. * [en]
25. * [en]
26. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en |carpenter's square| bacon square|bimagic square|carpentry
square|Cartesian square|Greco-Latin square|lemon square|mandarin
square|most-perfect magic square|multimagic square|pandiagonal magic
square|prime reciprocal magic square|square gin|square of opposition|square
on|square sausage|square-bracket|square-jawed|square-lipped
rhinoceros|trimagic square|Yorkshire square|Sator square |chi-square
|combination square|black square |difference of two squares |four square
|framing square |goal square |kid on the square |Latin square|Logan Square
|machinist square |magic square |market square |mean square|blue
square|try-miter square |miter square |on the square |optical square |over
square |perfect square |public square |Punnett square |set square |Square and
Compass |square bashing |squareless |square meal |square one |square-pushing
|square tab shingle |steel square |T-square |three-square |Times Square |town
square |Trafalgar Square |try square |under square |Willington Square| Malcolm
Square-Perfecto |word square| alphamagic square|antimagic square|back to
square one|be there and be square|call it square|catch a square|center
square|centre square|chi-square distribution|chi-square test|circle gets the
square|complete the square|cube-square law|deep square leg|diamond-square
algorithm|flight square|four-square|geomagic square|geometric square|granny
square|grid square|inverse-square law|jazz square|L square|Parker
square|pocket square|Polybius square|principal square root|queening
square|Rice Krispie square|Roman square capitals|roof square|root mean
square|root mean square velocity|square annulus|square ball|square
breathing|square dance|square dancer|square degree|square division|square
eyes|square footage|square grouper|square john|square kilometer|square
kilometre|square leg umpire|square notation|square one's shoulders|square peg
in a round hole|square piano|square rig|square rigged|square roof|square root
decomposition|square root of fuck all|square scooter|square script|square
stern|square-cube
law|square-dance|square-eyed|square-free|square-gaiter|square-pierced|square-rigged|square-rigger|square-shooter|square-up|upon
the square }}
**** Descendants
- [cy]
**** Translations
[type of polygon]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Edo: [bin]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Franco-Provençal: [frp]
- French: [fr]
- Fula: [ff] [Nigeria]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Igbo: [ig] , [ig]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Izon: [ijc]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kannada: [kn] , [kn]
- Kanuri: [kr]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum] , [kum]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Silesian: [szl]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] [informal]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy] , [cy]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[tool]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Franco-Provençal: [frp]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [45º]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[open space in a town]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] [archaic stress and gender]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Manx: [gv] , [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] [sometimes]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [military]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[cell in a grid]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [chess] [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Volapük: [vo] , [chess] [vo]
[trans-bottom]
[second power]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[body of troops in a square formation]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek:
- Italian: [it]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: socially conventional person]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [Brazil]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Colombia] , [es] [rare] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[the _#_ symbol on a telephone]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] [slang] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[central area of a cricket field]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[unit of measurement of area]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[unit for measuring roof area]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el] [sense: 100 sq.ft]
- Italian: [it]
- Malay: [ms] [sense: 100 sq.ft]
[trans-bottom]
[dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[mortarboard]
[square meal]
[pane of glass]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[printing: portion of a column]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[harmony or exact agreement]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[astrology]
[act quarrelling]
[front of a woman's dress]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: cigarette]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- French: [fr]
- German: [try square] [de] , [T-square] [de]
- Indonesian: [id] (sense: 100 sq.ft)
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia] , [ia] , [ia] , [ia]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Maori: [mi]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Shaped like a [en] [the polygon] .
2. * [chapter=1]
3. [en] Forming a right angle (90°).
4. * [en]
1. [en] [en] Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not [en] or leaning .
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] Forming 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.
5. [en] [Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.]
6. [en] Honest ; straightforward ; fair .
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1828 | author=Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton | title=Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman
|passage=Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a SQUARE crib like
mine, as if you were in a flash panny?}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1900 | origyear=1878 | editor= | author=Allan Pinkerton | title=Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches | url=https://archive.org/details/criminalreminis00pinkgoog/page/n36/mode/2up | genre= | publisher=G. W. Dillingham | location=New York | isbn= | page=29
|passage=I believe you're a good, SQUARE man}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1908 | author=Perceval Landon | title=Thurnley Abbey
|passage=I am not very good at analysing things, but I felt that she talked a
little uncomfortably and with a suspicion of effort, smiled rather
conventionally, and was obviously glad to go. These things seem trifling
enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was
not SQUARE.}}
1. Satisfied ; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] Even ; tied
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. [en] [en] Socially conventional ; boring .
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. [en] [en] In line with the batsman 's popping crease .
13. [en] Solid , decent , substantial .
14. * [Bonduca]
15. * [en]
16. * [en]
17. * [en]
18. * [en]
19. [en] Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
20. [en] Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en |all square |be there or be square |fair and square|square Kufic
|oversquare,over-square,over square |square bracket |square centimetre,square
centimeter|square engine|turn square corners |square circle |square dancing
|square deal |square drive |square flipper,squareflipper |square foot
|squarehead |square inch |square leg |square knot| |square serif |square
matrix |square meal |square metre,square meter |square mile |square number
|square pyramid |square rod |square root |square sail |square shooter
|square-shouldered |square-toed |square wave |square yard |squarely
|squareness |squround |T-squared |undersquare,under-square,under square }}
**** Translations
[shaped like a square]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang] , [ang] , [ang] , [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Unami: [unm]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[forming a right angle]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: met rechte hoek
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [adverb]
- French: perpendiculaire à
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: perpendicolare a
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[formed by multiplying two equal numbers]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek:
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[used in the names of units]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: Quadrat - [used as a prefix to form compound words]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
[honest, straightforward]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[fair]
[even, tied]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [adverbs]
[trans-bottom]
[socially conventional]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Malay: [informal] [ms]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Colombia] , [es] [rare] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
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[cricket: in line with batsman's popping crease]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[correctly aligned]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[hearty, vigorous]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[having shape broad for the height, with angular outlines]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- German: (4): [de] ; (5): [de]
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*** Adverb
[en-adv]
1. Directly .
2. * [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To [en] so as to [en] with or place at a [en] to something else; [in particular:]
1. [en] To place at a right angle to the mast or keel .
2. [en] To rotate the oar s so that they are perpendicular to the water .
2. [en] To resolve or reconcile ; to suit or fit .
3. * [en]
4. [en] [en] To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony _with_ something.
5. * [passage= SQUARE my trial <br> To my proportioned strength.]
6. [en] Of a value, term [,] or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power .
7. [en] To draw , with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
8. [en] To tile (completely fill ) with squares.
9. [en] To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
10. * [en]
11. [en] To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
12. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
13. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1782 | author=w:William Cowper | title=Charity
|passage=No works shall find acceptance [...] that SQUARE not truly with the
Scripture plan.}}
1. [en] To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel .
2. * [act=II]
3. To take a boxing attitude; often with _up_ or _off_ .
4. * [passage=There we stood, well SQUARED UP before it, shoulder to shoulder, and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.]
5. To form with four side s and four right angle s.
6. * [1]
7. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2002 | author=William Boyd | title=Any Human Heart
|passage=Everything on his writing desk was SQUARED off: blotter, paper knife,
pen rack.}}
1. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
2. * [5]
3. [en] To hold a quartile position respecting.
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1697 | author=w:Thomas Creech | title=The five books of M. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology, done into English verse
|passage=the icy Goat, the Crab that SQUARE the Scales}}
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en| square around |square away |square off |square up |square with
|square the circle |square one's shoulders}}
**** Translations
[to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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[to resolve]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
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[to adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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[math: to multiply by itself]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
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[geometry: to draw a square with same area as something else]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek:
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[soccer: to make a short low pass sideways across the pitch]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
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[to take opposing sides]
[to be consistent with]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
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[to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[to take a boxing attitude]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[to form with four sides and four right angles]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
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[to form with right angles and straight lines]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
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[to compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
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[astrology: to hold a quartile position respecting]
- Finnish: [fi]
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[nautical: to place at right angles with the keel]
- Finnish: [fi] [of the sail]
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[rowing: to rotate oars to be perpendicular to the water]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
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*** See also
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr]. [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [sqware]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. small public garden in the middle of a [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr] , [fr]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], [fro] (modern [fr]), from [enm], from [enm] [la], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[squares]
1. A [enm] [tool used to ensure a right angle]
2. A [enm] [equilateral rectangle] ; a square plot of land.
3. One of the edges of a square.
4. In late medieval English, an {"content": "''", "type": "DELIM", "wikinode": "WikiDelimNode"} 吴语: Esquire .
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
**** References
- [entry=squār(e ]
[enm]