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单词 squaring
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squaringn.

Etymology: < square v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquaring.
1.
a. The action of making square or of reducing to a square form.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > squaring
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swardingc1480
quaring1611
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > quadrilateral > square > making square
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 471 Squarynge, quadracio, conquadracio.
1476–7 Sarum Ch.-w. Accs. (Swayne, 1896) 363 The fellyng of ij Elms and swaryng, iiijd.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 155/1 Now consider, that ye make him by & by fall to ye squaryng of his stones.
1552–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 52 Thomas Watson carpender for ye squarynge, framynge, and settinge up..a wall of..timbre.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 198 Ordnance of brasse..very well proportioned in bore and squaring.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 92 The Squaring the Face and Stems of the Punch.
1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 32 Enough for squaring of this Rail.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 125 Squaring by the lifts makes them [sc. yards] horizontal.
attributive.1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Squaring Marks, marks placed upon the lifts and braces [as guides in squaring the yards].1870 Sauzay Marvels Glass-making 92 This..fragile glass..[is] placed on wheels and rails, which will convey it still unpolished to the squaring room, where it will be examined, classified [and] cut.a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 849/2 Squaring Plow. For squaring paper in book-work.a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 849/2 Squaring Shears,..a machine for squaring up tinned plate.
b. With off, out, or up. Also attributive.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > quadrilateral > square > making square
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squaring1611
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Equarrissement, a measuring, or squaring out, by a Squire.
(b)1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 294 Squaring-off, in ship-building, signifies plugging off and otherwise tightening the treenails [etc.].a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 849/2 Squaring~off Saw, a circular saw,.. to square the ends of work.(c)1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 501 When the works are planed with rebates, grooves, or mouldings, the squaring up of the four sides is always the preliminary step.1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.Q 16. 1 It is capable of performing..grooving, tongueing, and squaring-up.1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2813/2 The squaring-up and facing tables are on the other side.
c. The manner in which a thing is squared or set square.
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the world > space > relative position > position at right angles to something > [noun] > manner in which something is set square
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1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. xviii. 279 Look at..the squaring of her topsails.
2. Dissension, wrangling, contention. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun]
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chestc1000
pleac1275
threapa1300
noisec1300
checkc1330
debate1340
chopping1377
controversyc1384
briguea1398
tuilyieing1444
quarrellingc1460
lite1493
frayinga1500
falling out1539
square1545
overthwarting1552
mutiny1567
squaring1579
debatement1590
swaggeringa1596
quarrel1605
simultation1605
warbling1632
barrating1635
throwing1897
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 198 Hannibal hearing of their iarre and squaring together, sought straight oportunitie to make their discord finely to serue his turne.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Rissa,..a quarrell,..a strife, a squaring.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. ix. 515 All the centuries besides without any squaring and variance elected the very same.
1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. 153 Hee desired and sought some pretext..to bolster out and apologize his iarring and squaring with his wife.
3. Multiplication of a number by itself.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself
quadratec1450
squaring1579
affection?1683
figurationa1690
involution1706
exponentiation1903
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 52 Multiplication of moytie in itselfe whiche I name Squaring.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 70 Performed by squaring, cubing, biquadrating, etc. of the terms.
4. The process of finding a square equivalent to another magnitude.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > action or process > finding square equivalent
quadrature1569
squaring1704
tetragonism1704
quadrability1743
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The Quadrature or Squaring of the Circle, is the finding a Square equal to the Area of a Circle.
1798 C. Hutton Course Math. II. 95 It seems intended to make an allowance for the squaring of the tree.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. ii. 22 Several articles on angular sections, and the squaring of curves.
1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. ii. 36 This is the celebrated problem of the Squaring of the Circle.
5. Adaptation, adjustment.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun]
commodation1578
justing1582
suiting1601
adaptation1610
adapting1610
accommodation1612
adaption1615
adjustment1644
contemperation1654
squaring1702
adaptment1786
adjustage1819
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > adjustment for accuracy or smooth operation
squaring1838
truing1852
tuning1863
calibrating1897
fine tuning1915
tune-up1933
tune1971
tweaking1975
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 362 The squaring of a man's thoughts, wishes, and desires to the lot that providence has set out for us, is both a blessing and a duty.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. ii. 238 I do not understand this new-fangled policy—this squaring of measures, to please the opposition.
6. Assumption of a boxing attitude.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > taking up fighting attitude
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1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. xxxix. 380 He..started..into what is called an attitude of self-defence, and..began the operation which is entitled ‘squaring’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

squaringadj.

Etymology: < square v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquaring.
1. Given to contention or wrangling. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adjective] > quarrelsome
sakfulc1000
strifefula1382
litigiousc1384
barratous1430
tuilyier-like1444
mellyvousc1450
toilousc1450
debatous1483
debatefula1492
sturtinga1500
squaringc1530
striving1530
contentious1533
factious1533
quarrellous?1567
quarrelsome1576
bateful1582
mutinous1589
discordful1596
tuilyiesomec1598
brabbling1603
bangling1615
brangling1621
rixosous1623
pugnacious1642
stickling1642
pugnatory1656
litigiose1677
vitilitigious1683
fire-eating1811
wranglesome1817
vitilitigating1819
combativea1834
brawlsome1845
battlesome1877
fighty1888
scrappy1895
tasty1974
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Piij If thou be besy, or squarynge of langage Thou mayst peraduenture walke on ye same passage.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Sj v Nay holla squaring Dick, I am no but for euerie boult.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Dissentioso,..contentious, squaring, quarrelsome.
2. squaring band, squaring piece (see quots.).
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c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 The topmasts have squaring pieces at the heel, to fit the mast hole.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 399/1 Upon the under side of the carriage there are wheels placed in a horizontal position, round which the ‘squaring bands’ are passed.
3. That multiplies a quantity by itself.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > multiple > multiplying > by itself
squaring1961
1961 Technology Feb. 44/2 An automatic neon overload indicator..detects signal peaks exceeding the range of the squaring unit.
1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 514 The squaring map aa2, determined by this Jordan product, is the same as that determined by functional calculus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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