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(verb) make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file" |
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Synonyms: square up |
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Related Words: form, shape |
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(verb) raise to the second power |
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Related Words: multiply |
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(satellite adjective) (slang) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned |
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Synonyms: straight |
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(satellite adjective) without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" |
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Synonyms: straightforward |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing" |
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Synonyms: straight |
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(verb) position so as to be square: "He squared his shoulders" |
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Related Words: even up, jog, position, square up |
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(verb) pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him" |
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Related Words: settle |
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(satellite adjective) (informal) leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square" |
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(verb) be compatible with; "one idea squares with another" |
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Related Words: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
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(verb) cause to match, as of ideas or acts |
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Related Words: adapt, adjust, conform |
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(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner" |
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Antonyms: round |
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(noun) a 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" |
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Related Words: T-square, carpenter's square, hand tool, try square |
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(noun) any object having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a chessboard has 64 squares" |
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Related Words: artefact, artifact |
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(noun) (informal) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views |
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Synonyms: square toes |
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Related Words: conservative, conservativist |
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(noun) the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance" |
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Synonyms: second power |
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Related Words: number |
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(noun) (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" |
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Synonyms: foursquare |
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Related Words: quadrate, rectangle |
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(adverb) firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy" |
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Synonyms: squarely |
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(adverb) in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square" |
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Synonyms: squarely |
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(adverb) with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square" |
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Synonyms: squarely |
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(adverb) in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me" |
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Synonyms: squarely |
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(verb) turn the oar, while rowing |
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Synonyms: feather |
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Related Words: row |
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(verb) turn the paddle; in canoeing |
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Synonyms: feather |
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Related Words: paddle |
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(noun) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets |
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Synonyms: public square |
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Related Words: parcel, parcel of land, piazza, piece of ground, piece of land, place, plaza, tract |
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