Dictionary Entry
square
square is a 6-letter English word with 61 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The corner, or angle, of a figure. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 61 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The corner, or angle, of a figure.
- 2noun
A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
- 3noun
Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
- 4noun
A square piece or fragment.
- 5noun
A pane of glass.
- 6noun
A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- 7noun
One hundred superficial feet.
- 8noun
An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
- 9noun
An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
- 10noun
Hence, a pattern or rule.
- 11noun
The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
- 12noun
Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
- 13noun
A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
- 14noun
Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- 15noun
The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- 16noun
The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
- 17noun
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- 18adjective
Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
- 19adjective
Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
- 20adjective
Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
- 21adjective
Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
- 22adjective
Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
- 23adjective
Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
- 24adjective
Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
- 25adjective
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.
- 26noun
To form with four sides and four right angles.
- 27noun
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
- 28noun
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- 29noun
To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
- 30noun
To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
- 31noun
To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
- 32noun
To hold a quartile position respecting.
- 33noun
To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
- 34intransitive verb
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
- 35intransitive verb
To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
- 36intransitive verb
To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
- 37noun
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"
- 38noun
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
"a checkerboard has 64 squares"
- 39noun
an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- 40noun
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- 41noun
someone who doesn't understand what is going on
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- 42noun
the product of two equal terms
"nine is the second power of three"
"gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
- 43noun
(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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- 44noun
something approximating the shape of a square
- 45verb
make square
"Square the circle"
"square the wood with a file"
- 46verb
raise to the second power
- 47verb
turn the oar, while rowing
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- 48verb
turn the paddle; in canoeing
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- 49verb
position so as to be square
"He squared his shoulders"
- 50verb
pay someone and settle a debt
"I squared with him"
- 51verb
be compatible with
"one idea squares with another"
- 52verb
cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- 53adjective
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
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- 54adjective
without evasion or compromise
"a square contradiction"
"he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
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- 55adjective
leaving no balance
"my account with you is now all square"
- 56adjective
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
"a square peg in a round hole"
"a square corner"
- 57adjective
characterized by honesty and fairness
"straight dealing"
"a square deal"
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- 58adjective
providing abundant nourishment
"a hearty meal"
"good solid food"
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- 59adverb
firmly and solidly
"hit the ball squarely"
"the bat met the ball squarely"
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- 60adverb
in a square shape
"a squarely cut piece of paper"
"folded the sheet of paper square"
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- 61adverb
in a straight direct way
"looked him squarely in the eye"
"ran square into me"
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