squarelysquare‧ly /ˈskweəli $ ˈskwer-/ adverb 
Examples
He turned and faced her squarely. She hit him squarely on the nose.2completely and with no doubt: The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the police.3straight on something and centrally SYN square: Dr Soames jammed his hat squarely on his head.4at 90° to a line SYN square
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- The report puts the blame squarely on the government.
- And the total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced.
- As she came to a halt in front of the phone-box Hilary faced her feelings squarely.
- Once plugged into western markets, poor countries are better able to compete squarely with the rest of the world.
- She sat squarely in a big armchair and looked at him.
- The discussions were centered squarely on the main issues of the day as seen in the two capitals.
- The shot plunked squarely into the net post.
- Their tracer fell away, wasted, as Barton hauled his formation squarely around to face them.
- These preferences, of course, placed the Wiener Werkstatte squarely in the vanguard of Modernism.
WORD SETS► Maths
Collocationsabacus, 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 OTHER ENTRIES► place the blame squarely/firmly on somebody
1directly and firmly: (=blame someone in a very definite way)· A military investigation placed the blame squarely on city officials.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► aim· The machine is aimed squarely at Filofax's market, is about same size and weighs only 14oz.
► face· Conflicts, over such matters as land use, are likely to arise and need to be faced squarely.· And the total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced.
He turned and faced her squarely. She hit him squarely on the nose.2completely and with no doubt: The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the police.3straight on something and centrally SYN square: Dr Soames jammed his hat squarely on his head.4at 90° to a line SYN square