Square Meaning and Definition

Word: Square

How to pronounce: skweə

Noun

Definitions:

1. A plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.

Example sentences: "A grid of ruled squares"

2. An open (typically four-sided) area surrounded by buildings in a town, village, or city.

Example sentences: "A market square"

3. The product of a number multiplied by itself.

Example sentences: "A circle's area is proportional to the square of its radius"

4. An L-shaped or T-shaped instrument used for obtaining or testing right angles.

Example sentences: "A carpenter's square"

5. A person considered to be old-fashioned or boringly conventional in attitude or behavior.

6. A square meal.

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Having the shape or approximate shape of a square.

Example sentences: "A square table"

2. Denoting a unit of measurement equal to the area of a square whose side is of the unit specified.

Example sentences: "30,000 square feet of new gallery space"

3. At right angles; perpendicular.

Example sentences: "These lines must be square to the top and bottom marked edges"

4. Level or parallel.

Example sentences: "Place one piece of wood on top of the other, ensuring that they are exactly square"

5. (of two people) owing nothing to each other.

Example sentences: "An acknowledgment that we are square"

6. Old-fashioned or boringly conventional.

7. (of rhythm) simple and straightforward.

Example sentences: "The opening sinfonia for strings and trombones is remarkably like several opera overtures of the time, with square rhythms."

Adverb

Definitions:

1. Directly; straight.

Example sentences: "It hit me square in the forehead"

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. Make square or rectangular; give a square or rectangular cross section to.

Example sentences: "You can square off the other edge"

2. Multiply (a number) by itself.

Example sentences: "5 squared equals 25"

3. Balance (an account)

Example sentences: "They're anxious to square their books before the audit"

4. Bring (one's shoulders) into a position in which they appear square and broad, typically to prepare oneself for a difficult task or event.

Example sentences: "Chin up, shoulders squared, she stepped into the room"

5. Secure the help, acquiescence, or silence of (someone), especially by offering an inducement.

6. Set (a yard or other part of a ship) approximately at right angles to the keel or other point of reference.

7. (of a planet) have a square aspect with (another planet or position)

Example sentences: "Saturn squares the Sun on the 17th"

Synonyms:

plaza

area

floor space

space

floorspace

quadrangle

quadrilateral

tetragon

foursquare

rectangular

acreage

piazza

quadrate

quadrat

sq

square box

rectangle

quadrangular

straight

equal

dovetail

garden

conform

agree

correspond

square up

pay off

bourgeois

Derivations:

squared

squarish

squaring

squareness

squarely

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Square in Other Languages...

Spanish: Plaza

German: Square

French: Carré

Italian: Piazza

Turkish: Meydan