square1 adjectivesquare2 nounsquare3 verbsquare4 adverb
squaresquare1 /skweə $ skwer/ ●●● S2 W3 adjective 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a square backyard
- a square corner
- It's important to be square with clients.
- He was seated in a deep armchair with flat, square sides.
- In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.
- Rolling white sand dunes surrounded by a large oasis of swaying palm trees with a square fort in the middle.
- Roy Fredericks always favoured the square cut.
- The floor is only ten inches square so you can't sit down or squat in it.
- The pair moved down the centre line and halted square and dead centre.
- The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.
Longman Language Activatorhaving a particular shape
use this to say what shape something is: · The windows were round, like the windows on a ship.· "What shape is the table?" "It's long and rectangular."be round/square etc in shape: · There was another building, octagonal in shape, close by.
use this to say that something has the same shape as something else: star-shaped/heart-shaped/L-shaped etc: · He gave me a necklace with a heart-shaped locket.· Gus lived in an apartment in a U-shaped courtyard.shaped like: · On the table were salt and pepper shakers shaped like teddy bears.
use this to say that something has the same shape as something else: · a beautiful blue bowl in the shape of a flower· There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart on the main table.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square. I’m not getting a square deal here.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The dining room was square in shape. an area of 9,000 square yardsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square. I’m not getting a square deal here.· A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
(=a small square piece)· I only ate one small square of chocolate.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(also a proper meal British English) (=with enough good food to satisfy you)· I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
The dining room was square in shape. (=stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way)· She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
an area of 9,000 square yards· A square block of flats was almost finished; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper.· I soon learn there are six other resident hotels within a few square blocks.· Second, you could nail up corner blocks, those square blocks of pine with a an embossed circle in the middle.· With shops filling nearly four square blocks, the walk will be invigorating but not lengthy.· We had in mind to put in a square block of an indoor amusement park and we had it all designed.· It had 300, 000 inhabitants; its population could fit inside a few square blocks of Manhattan.
· The square bracket shows the position of the insert.· The square brackets reveal the position and length of the inserts.· Note: Practitioners must decide whether they wish to include the words in square brackets.· Unless otherwise specified, all fields have a maximum length of 20 characters, including colons, square brackets, etc.· These are the plus, the stroke, the colon, the square brackets and the double colon.· Remember that it must be 20 characters maximum, including square brackets.· The numbers in square brackets are the absolute numbers, given to illustrate the incidence of both in the data.
· Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.· Then everything reverses, as in a square dance.· It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance.
· By 1811 this nursery had over 30,000 square feet of glass.· When Bill and Melanie Parsons began designing their house, they figured they had 2, 200 square feet to play with.· Any personnel manager who has three or four square feet of desk space can install the equipment.· He pointed out that, with 20,000 square feet of space, the store can repair 20 tractors at a time.· The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team.· The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.· This 64,000 square foot office block went for £3m.· Its tallest building is 14 stories, while the two largest have nearly 500, 000 square feet each.
· Software houses have been slow to response but the square footage sold to date is reportedly ahead of schedule.· That way you could make do with a tenth the square footage.
· This is rather over 2000 tons per square inch.· Rats have less than a square inch of cortex, less than humans by a factor of 500.· You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.· In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.· Pluto and Lawrence & Wishart were there, all 18 square inches of them.· Each pad, about a square inch, treats half a cubic foot.· That means its print head can squirt 1, 440, 000 little dots of ink on each square inch of paper.· He looked me over carefully, appraising every visible square inch.
· Her sunken face, straight thin mouth, and square jaw spelled suffering and dedication as well as determination.· He was handsome, coffee colored, with close-cropped black hair, dark eyes, a square jaw, big hands.
· An array a square kilometre in size should see neutrino sources if there are any, Halzen says.· The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.· It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world.
· Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete.· In 5700 the principality of Piedmont measured about 16, 500 square kilometres in extent.· In total, the seven states lost 1,003 square kilometres of forest area and gained 492 square kilometres.· The Pantanal, at 140,000 square kilometres, is the world's largest wetland area.· So far palaeontologists have only scratched the surface of a formation that Rauhut estimates covers at least several hundred square kilometres.
· A square matrix having zeros everywhere except in the principal diagonal is called a diagonal matrix and is clearly symmetric.
· Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal.· So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
· It comes in 16 plain colours and costs £13 per square metre.· This is the amount that beams on average on to each square metre, even in cloudy, wintry Britain.· Two years later their numbers were still no higher than 2,000 per square metre.· Locusts can swarm in densities of 15,000 per square metre.· The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.· The project's treatments cost as little as 54p per square metre.· Order the terrazzo by the square metre.· The new 680 square metre hall will offer improved facilities.
· The central plaza of this city once covered 176,000 square metres.· We are planning to launch a test sail of 400 square metres, by the end of next year.· To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 square metres of exposed Chlorella.· The algae tanks were stacked so they took less than 8 square metres floor space.· The new plan measures 10,554 m2 of which only 8,322 square metres will be usable space.· Linear measurements may be given either in imperial or metric units, but area is normally quoted in square metres.· Only 10% of the total area, or approx. 1,500 square metres will be dedicated to displaying works of art.· The new machine is capable of producing 800-1000 square metres daily and should be operational before the Christmas holidays.
· The Exe Vale group served a largely rural area covering 2,000 square miles with a population of 600,000.· Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.· The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.· They filmed every aspect of life in an area of twenty-four square miles of north Oxfordshire.· The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.· A huge, 150 square mile, national forest is now in the process of being planted in the East Midlands.· Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.· They chose an area of twenty-four square miles in north Oxfordshire and spent a whole spring filming every aspect of life there.
· The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.· Millions of us, natives and refugees, lived in those few hundred square miles.· The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.· Walkup counts among his first-year triumphs the annexation of 26 square miles of state trust land on the city's southeast side.· A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.· Since Thursday, he said, Coast Guard cutters and smaller boats have criss-crossed 17, 500 square miles.· Fifty thousand square miles we covered.· However, when magnified over millions of square miles of ocean, the energy forces affecting the atmosphere can be substantial.
· Dinner in Luigi's, coffee and then later red wine in Hudson's large square room.· The interior was a large, square room.· It was big, square room with a polished floor and a high ceiling.
· The distribution remains normal but the standard deviation decreases as the square root of n, the sample size.· Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.· Therefore, taking the square root of this measure we get the correlation coefficient; i.e.. 11.· Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.· Excluding the few outliers, we can calculate the square root of the average squared error over all subjects for each repetition.· A number of early computers had an instruction to extract a square root, but nowadays this operation is achieved by software.· Does this have a square root?
· The kids are all scrubbed and coiffed, backpacks fitted firmly on square shoulders.
· This square tower has circular turrets on each side, the whole making a fortified place of retreat.· To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church.· There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.· After being severely damaged in a storm, the spire was replaced with a square tower in 1969.· It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.· At Brantford rounded ends were combined with a square tower.· The square tower is rib vaulted and its windows give good light to the cathedral.
· A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.· It seemed that there was not a square yard on the field free from fire.· Sadler's used 1,900 square yards - made more impervious to the gas by an inner coat of rubber.· I found where they had bedded down as a group, within about 50 square yards.· You can buy them in boxes of four to cover an area of a square yard.· The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 square yards.· A carpet costing around £33 per square yard may seem an unromantic substitute for a honeymoon.· All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► a square peg in a round hole► five feet/two metres etc square
1shape having four straight equal sides and 90° angles at the corners: - At the next they were all square when Lyle missed from three feet.
- Dennis Conner will start all square with no technological edge.
- Good play from Wilson at the 15 and a birdie 3 at the 16 brought the match all square once again.
- In the ultimate, within a reflecting boundary, all squares will be occupied.
- It seems they're all square in the sexy filming battle.
- It was a thrilling encounter with Colm going two up quite early in the round and getting pegged back to all square.
- That's how to keep things all square with the Umpire.
- At the next they were all square when Lyle missed from three feet.
- Dennis Conner will start all square with no technological edge.
- Good play from Wilson at the 15 and a birdie 3 at the 16 brought the match all square once again.
- In the ultimate, within a reflecting boundary, all squares will be occupied.
- It seems they're all square in the sexy filming battle.
- It was a thrilling encounter with Colm going two up quite early in the round and getting pegged back to all square.
- That's how to keep things all square with the Umpire.
- Can not you trust me to ensure a square deal and to ensure even justice between man and man?
- He likes the other fellow to have a square deal.
- We believe that that is a square deal for the housing movement.
- A square mile of orchards shows no sign of anyone picking anything.
- Half a dozen females share a nest, a simple hollow within the square mile or so of a male's territory.
- Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.
- It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country.
- Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.
- The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
- The Buxton Springs are surrounded by 550 square miles of spectacular natural landscape.
- This system was probably capable of supporting about 400 people per square mile.
- Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal.
- So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
- Some days he ate three square meals; sometimes he barely stopped to shove a doughnut into his mouth.
- When making wraps at home, the following tips will simplify rolling or wrapping these scrumptious square meals.
a large square room2angle forming a 90° angle, or being close to or similar to a 90° angle: square corners3square metre/mile etc an area of measurement equal to a square with sides a metre long, a mile long etc: about four square metres of ground4five feet/two metres etc square having the shape of a square with sides that are five feet, two metres etc long: The room is six metres square.5level [not before noun] parallel with a straight linesquare with I don’t think the shelf is square with the floor.6square meal a good satisfying meal: Children should have three square meals a day.7body if someone’s body or a part of their body is square, it looks broad and strong: a square jaw8all square British English to have the same number of points as your opponent in a competition: The teams were all square at the end of the first half.9(all) square informal if two people are square, they do not owe each other any money: Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square.10square deal honest and fair treatment from someone, especially in business: I’m not getting a square deal here.11boring informal someone who is square is boring and old-fashioned12a square peg in a round hole informal someone who is in a job or situation that is not suitable for them—squareness noun [uncountable] → win (something)/beat somebody fair and square at fair3(1)square1 adjectivesquare2 nounsquare3 verbsquare4 adverb
squaresquare2 ●●● S2 W3 noun [countable] WORD ORIGINsquare2
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French esquarre, from Vulgar Latin exquadra, from exquadrare ‘to make square’, from Latin quadrare ‘to make square, fit’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Have you been to the bank on the square?
- Arrange pheasant pieces on individual plates and place one of the polenta squares on the side of each serving.
- Check the saw blade with a square to make sure.
- One after another, they gather near the Stone County courthouse square.
- The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square.
- They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin, for decency she supposed.
- When a player reaches a black square, they must answer three questions to reach Number 10.
- Yesterday, Mr Dubcek's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago.
THESAURUStypes of shapes
a shape with four straight sides that are equal in length and four angles of 90 degrees
a round shape that is like an O
half a circle
a shape with three straight sides and three angles
a shape with four straight sides and four angles of 90 degrees
a shape like a circle, but that is longer than it is wide
an object in the shape of a tube
a solid object with six equal square sides
a shape with a square base and four triangular sides that meet in a point at the top
a shape like a ball
describing types of shapes shaped like a square: · a square box
shaped like a circle: · a circular table
shaped like a semicircle: · a semicircular arch above the door
shaped like a triangle: · sails divided into triangular sections
shaped like a rectangle: · a simple rectangular building
shaped like an oval: · an oval swimming pool
shaped like a cylinder: · The statue is on top of a tall cylindrical column.
shaped like a ball: · The planet Saturn is not completely spherical.
types of shapes a shape with four straight sides that are equal in length and four angles of 90 degrees
a round shape that is like an O
half a circle
a shape with three straight sides and three angles
a shape with four straight sides and four angles of 90 degrees
a shape like a circle, but that is longer than it is wide
an object in the shape of a tube
a solid object with six equal square sides
a shape with a square base and four triangular sides that meet in a point at the top
a shape like a ball
describing types of shapes shaped like a square: · a square box
shaped like a circle: · a circular table
shaped like a semicircle: · a semicircular arch above the door
shaped like a triangle: · sails divided into triangular sections
shaped like a rectangle: · a simple rectangular building
shaped like an oval: · an oval swimming pool
shaped like a cylinder: · The statue is on top of a tall cylindrical column.
shaped like a ball: · The planet Saturn is not completely spherical.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento. The police are now back at square one in their investigation. The dining room was square in shape. an area of 9,000 square yardsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento. The police are now back at square one in their investigation. (=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.· A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
(=a small square piece)· I only ate one small square of chocolate.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(also a proper meal British English) (=with enough good food to satisfy you)· I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
The dining room was square in shape. (=stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way)· She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
an area of 9,000 square yards· At the end of the street, there's this big square with loads of people in it.· When she surfaced it was to find that they were back at Piazzale Roma, the big square thronging as usual.· He has a big square head, shaven almost bald; lots of gold teeth.
· When a player reaches a black square, they must answer three questions to reach Number 10.· Below: A chance configuration of black squares.· The black squares at the bottom are keys that can be pressed.
· Villereal was charming, and busy too, with its narrow streets and central square with a timbered-covered market.· Urban scavengers have been banned from bagging doves and pigeons in the central squares.· Mosaic C from North Hill and mosaic 7 both have flowers with elongated petals in their central squares.· All three pavements appear to have had rosettes in the small squares which lie tangent to the central square.· Black wishes to keep some central dark squares under control.· The prefecture buildings on Kinkala's central square are also full of displaced persons.· Secondly, the four-strand guilloche which encloses the central square is well drawn, but slightly inferior to the chain-guilloche.
· However, Black's influence over the dark squares should be sufficient to maintain the balance.· I looked at the dark blue square of the window.· It was already dark but the square glowed with marquee brilliance, and none more brilliant than the Empire's.· The rest of the dark square of floor is smooth and bare.· The resulting dark squares and rectangles on the images are stone moats and reflecting pools around the temples.· Half way up the wall there was a slightly darker square set into the blackness.· Sam and Rose looked at each other and at the dark, empty square.· Black wishes to keep some central dark squares under control.
· But she loved him fair and square.· I was only warning you fair and square.· It had paid for its water, fair and square, and it wanted to let the valley survive.
· This volume property is characteristic of the inverse square law; it holds for no other law of force.
· Roll out half to a large square, place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing.· I sat down in the chair and began sewing them together until they formed a large square.· It was a large open square with low hedges enclosing six small gardens with bush-like trees.· He had a large square head, strong features, the worried look of a rustic crossing streets in the capital.· As the two small squares grow so the trio reaches a peak of energy and declines into a single large square.· They came to a large square, dazzling white from swirling snowdrifts.· When the drawer was open she took out a large square package wrapped in newspaper and held it out for him.
· I stared at the innocent little square of foil on the counter.· The set came equipped with chemicals, minerals, and various treated papers all in little square bottles.· All the shops were closed and there was a Sunday peace in the little square.· Their job, as they perceived it, was to fill little squares with people.· The little square was relatively sheltered, and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant, muffled roar.· Flavia was there so early that she ran into Therese in the little square where people left their cars.· Divide the square into 49 little squares with a knife by marking six evenly-spaced lines vertically and six horizontally.
· Then he hurried away towards the main square.· The Handbook suggested a Ricardo Quispe Mamani who also had a small restaurant on the main square.· The main square holds the three buildings of importance.· Participants said the city's main square was filled to capacity.· It's across the main square in the town centre.· In many towns and villages the local population gathers round the main square, or church.· To park the bikes we had to strike a deal with the children in the main square.· The mayor of Bucharest on Aug. 28 declared an indefinite ban on all meetings and demonstrations in central Bucharest's main squares.
· Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square.· My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.· For this, it had to be given lungs, in the shape of open spaces, squares, parks and gardens.· It was a large open square with low hedges enclosing six small gardens with bush-like trees.· The monastery takes the form of an open square in which the two churches stand.· He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees.
· They are also cost-effective, as the cost of a missile is roughly proportional to the square of its range.· At speeds low compared with light, the temporal retardation is proportional to the square of your speed.· Because the energy of a moving body is proportional to the square of the velocity.· The increase of confinement time with radius follows approximately a diffusion law-confinement time proportional to the square of the radius.· The centripetal force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the centre.
· In the presence of a large crowd in a public square the messengers shouted vulgar abuse at Vuk.· Simultaneously, he said, public places like squares, parks and plazas would be liberally placed where people could congregate.· Yet for a work in a public square this is an interesting aspect of art criticism.· A focal point of the development will be a public square created in front of the main entrance.· He sets out; he arrives at the public square, which is crowded with an eager excited throng.· That was the same year in which Admiral Kolchak was executed in the main public square.· One young man, unable to tolerate the thought, burned himself alive in a public square.
· The horse turned into a courtyard where he slowed down, trotting round the small square.· It is carved into small squares and rolled up inside a thin wheat pancake with hoisin sauce and spring onions.· Then each Girl put her heels into a small square on the stage floor, connecting up with the power source.· She folded and refolded her Kleenex into smaller and smaller squares.· After eating a small square of chocolate he became very aggressive and rushed around the house frantically banging doors and kicking furniture.· The main temple complex of Angkor Wat is readily visible as a small square bounded with black.· A rectangle is subdivided into one large and two small squares such that the overlap is constant width.
· Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls, their tiny squares making up life-size portraits.· Jell-O with tiny square pieces of fruit in it.· Though the steady march of grey clouds, a tiny square of blue emerges.· Dennis cut his veal assiduously into tiny squares and piled them into a pyramid that he then inhaled in a single gulp.· Margaret fell in love with a muted green-based carpet with a pattern of tiny red squares woven around the borders.· A wriggling snake moves one tiny square at a time, changing direction as you press buttons.· Flora and I were walking through the palm grove, on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley.· Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.
· Walk carefully, keep to the white squares.· Glover had closed his eyes and seen white squares burned into his lids.· She had religiously adhered to the white squares.
NOUN· The compellingly simple design of six foot square of sheer glass frightens me.· The room was about twelve foot square and lit by a fluorescent tube running almost the full length of the ceiling.· In Leeds in the early nineteenth century the average cottage was fifteen foot square.
· The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square.· For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.· The students give it liveliness: motorbikes in the market square and a bit of noise in the bars.· It combines the delightful atmosphere of an Oxford market square with every modern amenity for comfortable and practical living today.· Those who arrived late had to listen to the Archbishop's address relayed over loudspeakers placed around the market square.· Stephen took particular note of it after he had taken Lyn to the Mootwalk and parked the car in the market square.· It must be the market square, Theda decided, glancing about and finding odd shapes that looked like empty barrows.· Jenna was still smiling as she pulled into the market square and locked her car.
· He finds 48-50 distinct genotypes present per metre square.
· There are far more kangaroos per square mile than humans.
· I was leaving an office in a busy New Town square.· Nowadays, the battlefield is an opera stage, at Sebastiani Theatre on the town square.· The old town square was filled with people and the jubilant sound of the marching band as performers juggled fire.· In Fellini, the town square is never felt to be the social center of a community.· Here the narrow streets lead to a town square shaded with trees.· Surrounding the town square were numerous small buildings, including the courthouse.· They jogged round a corner, and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat, Arizona.· Try Bashford Court, across the street from the town square.
· There is a long promenade to stroll down, but the focal point of the resort is the village square.· The village square has a fine pink and grey frontón, and promising-looking hotels.· The central point is the village square and harbour, and there is also a very pleasant lakeside promenade.· Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.· It has a large, imposing church in the recently modernized village square which is complete with fountain and aviary.· When they stopped in the village square, Sergeant Adams gave them leave to sit down while officers went in search of billets.· Ocobamba is a little village with a church, barracks and a village square.
VERB· Serve warm, cut into neat squares for tapas, or quarters if it is to be the centrepiece of the meal.· Bake for 50 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares.· Still staring down, he began to cut another square of bread.· Cool at room temperature and cut into squares.· Pour into greased square pan and cool. Cut into 1-inch squares.· Attach the post anchors to the posts, making sure the post bottoms are cut square and treated with extra wood preservative.· Sprinkle with cheese. Cut into wedges or squares and separate slightly to have crisp edges.
· Secondly, the four-strand guilloche which encloses the central square is well drawn, but slightly inferior to the chain-guilloche.
· You could then fill the left-hand square with a design and create a mirror image of the design in the right-hand square.· Their job, as they perceived it, was to fill little squares with people.· The Saturday morning market fills two huge squares in the town of Arras and locals also seek the bargains.· The huge crowd proceeded from outside the church to fill the largest square in the city, Karl Marx Square.
· Less efficient is square packing where the centres of four adjacent spheres form a square.· I sat down in the chair and began sewing them together until they formed a large square.· It forms a perfect square, with five bays on every side with the huge segmental pediments above.
· A number of beautifully modelled playing pieces were now occupying some of the squares.· Our plot occupied a compact square nested in a palm of earth on the eastern side of the river.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1shape a shape with four straight equal sides with 90° angles at the corners: - After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
- Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
- He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
- If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
- Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
- Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
- We are back to square one.
First of all, draw a square.square of a small square of cloth2in a town a large open area in the centre of a town or city, usually in the shape of a square, or the buildings surrounding itmain/market/town square The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento. She lives in Hanover Square.3square one the situation from which you started to do somethingbe back to/at square one The police are now back at square one in their investigation.go back to square one (=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.from square one I’ve had to relearn the game from square one.4number the result of multiplying a number by itselfsquare of The square of 4 is 16.5in a game a space on a board used for playing a game such as chess6person informal someone who is considered boring and unfashionable SYN nerd7tool (also set square) a flat object with a straight edge, often shaped like an L, used for drawing or measuring 90° anglessquare1 adjectivesquare2 nounsquare3 verbsquare4 adverb
squaresquare3 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
square
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | square |
| he, she, it | squares | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | squared |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have squared |
| he, she, it | has squared | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had squared |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will square |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have squared |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am squaring |
| he, she, it | is squaring | |
| you, we, they | are squaring | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was squaring |
| you, we, they | were squaring | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been squaring |
| he, she, it | has been squaring | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been squaring |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be squaring |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been squaring |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The Braves beat the Twins and squared the World Series at two games each.
- I have no idea how Eva squared it with her husband, but she did.
- Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children.
- The confused events of the 450s and 460s are not easily squared with the literary image of the period purveyed by Sidonius.
- Then she squared her shoulders and headed indoors.
WORD SETS
abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Get your work squared away before you leave. The dining room was square in shape. an area of 9,000 square yardsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
Get your work squared away before you leave. (=make yourself believe that what you are doing is morally right)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
(=a small square piece)· I only ate one small square of chocolate.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(also a proper meal British English) (=with enough good food to satisfy you)· I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
The dining room was square in shape. (=stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way)· She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
an area of 9,000 square yards· He scrubbed the brightwork in the head, squared away his area, made up his rack.· Everything seems squared away, she thinks.
· Screened porches were meant to have been added, squaring off the blocks of 100 flats for retired church folk.· Raines retained Abner Burnett of Midland, and the two squared off for a legal battle.· There are 7-8 distinctly flattened, finely rugose arm spines, with the tips squared off.· Phil Gramm, against whom he will square off in the Louisiana caucuses next week, his strongest opponent.· Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants, while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted.· The winner will square off against Phelps, 38, in the November general election.· Cut out your embryo bud as before, but this time squaring off the base rather than the top of the shield.· His face was big and jowly and squared off.
· Does your memory square up with Jo's?· He squared up his scholar's stoop and took another deep breath.· More people want to eat meat and the two don't square up.
NOUN· The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once.· This squaring of the circle is the hardest of their tasks.· There is no sureness of touch, no deft ability to square circles as and when required.· This is as difficult as trying to square a circle.· Where are the leaders who can square this vicious circle?· The only way of squaring the circle to Moscow's satisfaction would be to send in troops.· On his last point, Labour has manifestly failed to square the circle.· Britain, ever the Atlanticist, tried to square the circle, and usually failed.
· The center handles 6, 000 high-altitude planes a day over seven states and more than 3 million square miles of ocean.· Beacon will acquire 3. 3 million square feet of space, bringing its total portfolio to 10 million square feet.
· Reagan went through the ceremonies like a President, shoulders squared, features composed, every gesture correct.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► square something ↔ off► square up to somebody/something► square (something) with something► square something with somebody
1multiply to multiply a number by itself2in a competition British English to win a point or game so that you have now won the same number of points or games as the other team or player: - I squared my shoulders, returned to the flat and cleaned the kitchen.
- Pulling himself upright, he squared his shoulders.
- She got back on Midnight, in order to look down on Sebastian and Antony, and squared her shoulders.
- She hesitated on the back steps a minute, then squared her shoulders and went inside.
- She threw her head back, squared her shoulders and walked briskly toward the elevator.
- Then she squared her shoulders and headed indoors.
- Britain, ever the Atlanticist, tried to square the circle, and usually failed.
- On his last point, Labour has manifestly failed to square the circle.
- The only way of squaring the circle to Moscow's satisfaction would be to send in troops.
India won the second match to square the series at one each.3square your shoulders to stand straight and push your shoulders back, usually to show your determination4make something straight to make something straight or parallel5square the circle to attempt something impossiblesquare something ↔ away phrasal verb American English to finish something, especially by putting the last details in order: Get your work squared away before you leave.GRAMMAR Square away is usually passive.square off phrasal verb1square something ↔ off to make something have neat corners2American English to get ready to fight someonesquare up phrasal verb1to pay money that you owe: I’ll pay for the drinks and you can square up later.2British English to get ready to fight someonesquare up to The two lads squared up to each other.3square up to somebody/something to deal with a difficult situation or person in a determined waysquare with phrasal verb1square (something) with something if you square two ideas, statements etc with each other or if they square with each other, they are considered to be in agreement: His story simply does not square with the facts. How do you square that with your religious beliefs?square something with your conscience (=make yourself believe that what you are doing is morally right)2square something with somebody British English to persuade someone to agree to something: I’ll take the day off if I can square it with my boss.square1 adjectivesquare2 nounsquare3 verbsquare4 adverb
squaresquare4 adverb EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- We must be square in the middle of it.
WORD SETS
abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Look him square in the eye and say no.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The dining room was square in shape. an area of 9,000 square yards
1directly and firmly SYN squarely: Look him square in the eye and say no.· A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
(=a small square piece)· I only ate one small square of chocolate.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(also a proper meal British English) (=with enough good food to satisfy you)· I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
The dining room was square in shape. (=stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way)· She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
an area of 9,000 square yards Look him square in the eye and say no.2at 90° to a line SYN squarelysquare to Wright passed the ball square to Brown.