square

Meanings

Noun

• A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angle; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
• Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
• An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
• 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.
• The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
• A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
• A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
• The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
• The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
• 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 metres. 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.
• A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
• A mortarboard
• A square meal.
• Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
• The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
• The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
• The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
• cigarette.
• A vat used for fermentation.
• The bottom or fundament of the human body.

Adjective

• Shaped like a square .
• Forming a right angle.
• Honest; straightforward.
• Fair.
• Even; tied
• Socially conventional; boring.
• In line with the batsman's popping crease.
• Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
• Hearty; vigorous.
• Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

Verb

• To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else;
• To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
• To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
• Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
• To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
• To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
• To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
• To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
• To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
• To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
• To form with four sides and four right angles.
• To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
• To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
• To hold a quartile position respecting.

Origin

• From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus.