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public square, square toes, lame, second power, foursquare, square up, feather, straight, squarely Definition: 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";
See Also: angular, angulate Hyponyms: carpenter's square, try square, T-square, Trafalgar Square, plaza, place, piazza, quadrate, square up, jog, even up Pertainyms: straight Part Meronyms: checkerboard, city Derivational Morphology:
square up, foursquare, second power, feather, feathering
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