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Adjective square has 5 senses
- square - having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
Antonyms: round, circular, ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, spheric, spherical, bulblike, bulbous, capitate, coccoid, cumuliform, discoid, discoidal, disklike, moonlike, moon-round, nutlike, pear-shaped, ringlike, roundish, orbiculate, orbicular
- square - leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square"
Antonym: unpaid (indirect, via paid)
- square, straight - characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing"
Antonyms: dishonest, dishonorable (indirect, via honest)
- square, straightforward - without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
Antonym: indirect (indirect, via direct)
- square, straight - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Antonym: unconventional (indirect, via conventional)
Adverbial square has 4 senses
- squarely, square - in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"
- squarely, square - with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square"
- squarely, square - in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"
- squarely, square - firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"
Noun square has 8 senses
- square, foursquare - (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"
--1 is a kind of rectangle; regular polygon
--1 has particulars: quadrate
- square, second power - the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
--2 is a kind of number
- public square, square - an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
--3 is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--3 is a part of city
--3 has particulars: Trafalgar Square; plaza, place, piazza
- square - something approximating the shape of a square
--4 is a kind of shape, form
- square, lame - someone who doesn't understand what is going on
--5 is a kind of simpleton, simple
- square, square toes - a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
--6 is a kind of conservative, conservativist
- 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"
--7 is a kind of artifact, artefact
--7 is a part of checkerboard
- square - 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"
--8 is a kind of hand tool
--8 has particulars: carpenter's square; try square; T-square
Verb square has 8 senses
- square - raise to the second power
--1 is one way to multiply
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- square, square up - make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
--2 is one way to shape, form
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- square - cause to match, as of ideas or acts
--3 is one way to adjust, conform, adapt
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- square - position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"
--4 is one way to position
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- square - be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
--5 is one way to match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
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- square - pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"
--6 is one way to settle
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- feather, square - turn the paddle; in canoeing
--7 is one way to paddle
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- feather, square - turn the oar, while rowing
--8 is one way to row
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