Meaning of square | Babel Free

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1. A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
2. Square, plaza.
3. A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral
4. A surname.
5. A surname
6. Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
7. A cell in a grid.
8. Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form. A cell in a grid
9. To assume a fighting stance; prepare to fight.
10. A square piece, part, or surface.
11. A cell in a grid
12. To settle a bill or debt.
13. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
14. A square piece, part, or surface
15. A misfit.
16. A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
    Canada, US
17. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered
18. Three square meals eaten in a day.
19. A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
20. Of, being, or using units that express the measure of area: square miles.
21. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
22. To multiply a number, quantity, or expression by itself.
23. A true measure, standard, or pattern.
    figuratively, obsolete
24. Slang. An old-fashioned person who is reluctant to change or innovate:fogy, fossil, fuddy-duddy, mossback.
25. 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.
26. With precision or absolute conformity:bang, dead, direct, directly, exactly, fair, flush, just, precisely, right, smack, squarely, straight.
27. A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
    often
28. directly and firmly. He stood squarely in front of me; She looked squarely at me. reguit مباشَرَةً، بالضَّبْط точно насреща direito přímo direkt direkte ίσια, κατευθείαν otse مستقيما suoraan carrément בְּזַווִית יְשָׁרָה सीधे, जमकर, दृढ़ता से otvoreno, izravno szemtől szembe(n); nyíltan; tisztességesen tepat beint esattamente; diritto まっすぐに 정통으로 tiesiai tieši; taisni; aci pret aci dengan tepat rechtdirekte, fastprostodireito drept, direct прямо priamo naravnost odlučno rakt, rätt อย่างตรงไปตร...
29. The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
30. an area equal to a square in which each side is one centimetre, metre etc. If the door is 3 metres high and 1.5 metres wide, its area is 4.5 square metres. vierkante sentimeter/meter سنتيمِتْر مُرَبَّع квадратен сантиметър centímetro/metro quadrado čtvereční 5 metres wide, its area is 4.5 square metres.der Quadrat(zenti)meter etc. kvadratcentimeter; kvadratmeter τετραγωνικό (εκατοστό, μέτρο κτλ.) ruutsentimeeter, ruutmeeter سانتي متر مربع neliö- carréמרובע वर्ग मीटर kvadratni (četvorni) metar...
    etc
31. A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
32. A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
33. A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.
    dated
34. The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
    British
35. The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. A mortarboard.
39. Ellipsis of square meal.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis
40. Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
    archaic
41. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
42. The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
43. The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
    dated
44. Cigarette.
    slang
45. A vat used for fermentation.
46. A well-defined torso.
    Multicultural-London-English, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.”

“You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.”

“a square of glass”

“There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications.”

“The statue of Alexander the Seventh stands in the large square of the town.”

“You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square.”

“64 is the square of 8.”

“Squares cannot be easily matched by regular expressions.”

“he alone Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had In the brave squares of war”

“1818, quoted in Christopher Kelly, History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event 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.”

“The sand of the desert is sodden red,— Red with the wreck of a square that broke;— The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.”

“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.”

“Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!”

“Good looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's a square.”

“She said: Wow! What a square! Don't you dig the scene? / Daddy Cool's playing his piano machine!”

“The sad sack was a sitting on a block of stone Way over in the corner weepin' all alone. The warden said, hey, buddy, don't you be no square If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.”

“Enter your account number followed by a square.”

“An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.”

“2006, Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square”

“2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php 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.”

“Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.”

“1594-1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.”

“I have not kept my square.”

“We live not on the square with such as these.”

“She wanna talk about feelings But I don't believe in love Just give me your square”

“I don’t really care about them man there Tell the bad b “just swing your square””

“Get on your knees and suck this dick Get on your knees and slop this quick Bro knows I could never put trust in a bitch (Never) Me and Tz like Lilo ’n Stitch So don’t hesitate to swing me your shit Yeah, swing your square”

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