Noun | 1. | square - (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" Synonyms: foursquare |
2. | square - the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance" Synonyms: second power | |
3. | ![]() Synonyms: public square | |
4. | square - something approximating the shape of a square | |
5. | square - someone who doesn't understand what is going on Synonyms: lame | |
6. | square - a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views Synonyms: square toes | |
7. | 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" | |
8. | 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" | |
Verb | 1. | square - raise to the second power |
2. | square - make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file" Synonyms: square up | |
3. | square - cause to match, as of ideas or acts | |
4. | square - position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders" | |
5. | square - be compatible with; "one idea squares with another" | |
6. | square - pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him" | |
7. | square - turn the paddle; in canoeing Synonyms: feather | |
8. | square - turn the oar, while rowing Synonyms: feather | |
Adj. | 1. | square - having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner" |
2. | square - leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square" | |
3. | square - characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing" Synonyms: straight | |
4. | square - without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears" Synonyms: straightforward | |
5. | square - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned Synonyms: straight | |
Adv. | 1. | square - in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me" Synonyms: squarely |
2. | square - with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square" Synonyms: squarely | |
3. | square - in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square" Synonyms: squarely | |
4. | square - firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy" Synonyms: squarely |
(language) | Square - A query language, a precursor to SQL. ["Specifying Queries as Relational Expressions: The SQUARE Data Sublanguage", R.E. Boyce et al, CACM 18(11):621-628 (Nov 1975)]. |