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";
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares";
an open area at the meeting of two or more streets;
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views;
someone who doesn''t understand what is going on;
the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance";
(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";
something approximating the shape of a square;
make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file";
raise to the second power;
turn the oar, while rowing;
turn the paddle; in canoeing;
position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders";
pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him";
be compatible with; "one idea squares with another";
cause to match, as of ideas or acts;
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned;
characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing";
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner";
firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy";
in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square";
with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square";
in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me";
