1. n. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angle, right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
2. n. (metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
3. n. A cell in a grid.
You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
4. n. A square piece, part, or surface, (such as a square of glass).
5. n. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
6. n. (North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
7. n. (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspaper
8. n. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
9. n. (figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
10. n. An open space often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
11. n. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
64 is the square of 8.
12. n. (military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
13. n. (1950s slang) 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.
Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
14. n. (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
Enter your account number followed by a square.
15. n. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
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.
16. n. (real estate) 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 p
2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 -
2007: 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. — Your Estat
17. n. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
18. n. (academia) A mortarboard
19. n. (colloquial, US) A square meal.
Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
20. n. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
21. n. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
22. n. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
23. n. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
24. n. (slang) cigarette, Cigarette.
25. n. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
26. adj. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
27. adj. Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
a square corner
28. adj. Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
9 is a square number.
29. adj. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
square metre
square mile
30. adj. Honest; straightforward.
square dealing
31. adj. Fair.
I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
32. adj. Even; tied
to make or leave the accounts square
The sides were square at the end of the half.
33. adj. (slang) Socially conventional; boring.
34. adj. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
35. adj. Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
36. adj. hearty; vigorous
It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
37. adj. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
a man of a square frame
38. v. To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; (in particular:)
The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
39. v. (nautical) To place at a right angle to the keel.
to square the yards
40. v. To resolve or reconcile.
John can square this question up for us.
These results just don't square.
41. v. To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
to square our actions by the opinions of others
42. v. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
43. v. To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
square the circle
44. v. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
45. v. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
46. v. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
47. v. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
48. v. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
49. v. To form with four sides and four right angles.
50. v. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
to square mason's work
51. v. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
52. v. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
uncompromising
1. adj. Intransigeant, inflexible.
uncompromising
1. adj. Inflexible and unwilling to negotiate or make concessions.
2. adj. Principled.
squared
1. v. Prétérit de square.
2. v. Participe passé de square.
squared
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of square
1. n. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
2. n. Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.
3. n. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
4. n. (nautical, slang) A bunk.
5. n. A distaff.
6. n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
7. n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
8. n. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
9. n. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
10. n. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
11. n. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
12. n. (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
13. n. (slang) A woman's breasts.
14. n. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
rappel rack
abseil rack
15. n. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.
16. n. A grate on which bacon is laid.
17. n. (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
18. n. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
19. v. To place in or hang on a rack.
20. v. To torture (someone) on the rack.
21. v. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
22. v. (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
23. v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
24. v. (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
25. v. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
26. v. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
27. v. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
28. v. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round
If you're going to have to use it defensively, have the shotgun already loaded and ready for use. The last thing you want to have to do is rack the slide, which could give away your position, i
29. v. To stretch a person's joints.
30. v. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
31. v. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
32. n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
33. v. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
34. v. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
35. n. A fast amble.
36. n. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
37. n. A young rabbit.
bob haircut
bob haircut
1. n. A women's haircut in which both the bangs and back are cut in a straight line, with the back generally off the neck.
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