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GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org — square - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also: Square

English

a square (noun sense 1)
a grand square: Komsomolskaya Square

Etymology

From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- +‎ quadro, from quadrus (compare English quad and quadra). Doublet of squad and squadra.

Displaced Old English fēowerecge (fēower nominative + ecg accusative, as in "four-edged").

Pronunciation

  • enPR: skwâr
  • (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /skwɛə(ɹ)/, [skwɛː(ɹ) ~ skweə(ɹ)]
    • Audio (North Carolina):(file)
    • Audio (California):(file)
    • Audio (Connecticut):(file)
    • Audio (Texas):(file)
    • Audio (Colorado):(file)
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /skweɹ/
  • (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) enPR: skwûr, IPA(key): /skwɜː(ɹ)/
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /skweː/
    • Audio (Queensland):(file)
  • (New Zealand) enPR: skwîr
    • (cheer–chair merger) IPA(key): /skwiə̯/
    • (without the cheer–chair merger) IPA(key): /skweə̯/
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

square (plural squares)

  1. (geometry) A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
    Hypernyms: rectangle, rhombus, kite, parallelogram < polygon < shape
    Coordinate terms: circle, oval, triangle, trapezoid, lozenge, diamond
    • 1927, Kazimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World:
      I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.
  2. Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
    1. A cell in a grid.
      You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
    2. A square piece, part, or surface.
      a square of glass
    3. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
    4. (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
    5. (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
      Coordinate term: column inch
  3. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
    Hyponyms: steel square, framing square, carpenter's square, T-square
    • a. 2018, Bob Vila, “Carpenter squares”, in Bob Vila‎[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2008:
      There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications.
    1. (figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
  4. An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
    Synonyms: piazza, plaza
    • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      The statue of Alexander the Seventh stands in the large square of the town.
    • 1995 October 10, NewsRadio, season 2, episode 3:
      You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square.
    1. (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
      Synonym: place
  5. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
    Antonym: square root
    64 is the square of 8.
    • 1989 May, John Boslough, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, pages 573-574:
      Newton's law of gravitation, universally accepted by scientists even in the face of a fifth force, showed that any two objects attract each other at a rate directly proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance apart.
  6. (computing) A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
    Squares cannot be easily matched by regular expressions.
  7. (military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
    • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xi]:
      he alone
      Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had
      In the brave squares of war
    • 1818, quoted in Christopher Kelly, History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event
      The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly charged our squares, their cannon opening chasms; but the British infantry, though greatly diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable to the last.
    • 1897, Henry Newbolt, Vitae Lampada:
      The sand of the desert is sodden red,—
      Red with the wreck of a square that broke;—
      The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
      And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 144:
      After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares, during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.
  8. (1950s slang, dated) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mainstreamer
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:fashionable
    Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
    • 1949 March 11, “R.S.V.P.”, in Courier, volume xv, number 9, Harvey, IL: Thornton Junior College, page 3:
      Good looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's a square.
    • 1957, Frank Slay, Bob Crewe, “Daddy Cool”, performed by The Rays:
      She said: Wow! What a square! Don't you dig the scene? / Daddy Cool's playing his piano machine!
    • 1957, “Jailhouse Rock”, Elvis Presley (music):
      The sad sack was a sitting on a block of stone
      Way over in the corner weepin' all alone.
      The warden said, hey, buddy, don't you be no square
      If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.
  9. (UK) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
    Synonyms: hash, sharp, (US) pound sign
    Enter your account number followed by a square.
  10. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
    An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
  11. (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
    • 2006, Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 [2]
      Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square
    • 2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [3]
      The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs.
  12. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
  13. (academia) A mortarboard.
  14. (colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
    Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
  15. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
    • 1594-1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
      They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.
    • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
      I have not kept my square.
  16. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
    • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
      We live not on the square with such as these.
  17. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
  18. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
  19. (slang) Cigarette.
  20. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
  21. (slang, MLE) A well-defined torso.
    • 2019 July 24, “No Feelings”, Quezgo (lyrics)‎[4]Link Up TV, 0:14–0:19:
      She wanna talk about feelings
      But I don't believe in love
      Just give me your square
    • 2021 September 29, “Bars At The Sesh [S3.E7]”, #D15 Trigz (lyrics)‎[5]Dearfxch TV, 1:05–1:08:
      I don’t really care about them man there
      Tell the bad b “just swing your square”
    • 2021 November 18, “I Love to Scam”, Tankz (lyrics)‎[6], 2:01–2:10:
      Get on your knees and suck this dick
      Get on your knees and slop this quick
      Bro knows I could never put trust in a bitch (Never)
      Me and Tz like Lilo ’n Stitch
      So don’t hesitate to swing me your shit
      Yeah, swing your square

Derived terms

  • alphamagic square
  • antimagic square
  • back to square one
  • bacon square
  • be there and be square
  • bimagic square
  • black square
  • blue square
  • call it square
  • capsquare
  • carpenter's square
  • carpentry square
  • Cartesian square
  • catch a square
  • center square/centre square
  • Central Square
  • central square
  • chi-square
  • chi-square distribution
  • chi-square test
  • circle gets the square
  • city square
  • combination square
  • complete the square
  • cube-square law
  • deep square leg
  • diamond-square algorithm
  • difference of two squares
  • flight square
  • foursquare
  • four square/four-square/foursquare
  • framing square
  • Franklin Square
  • geomagic square
  • geometric square
  • goalsquare
  • goal square/goalsquare
  • Golden Square
  • granny square
  • Greco-Latin square
  • grid square
  • Hamilton Square
  • headsquare
  • heterosquare
  • inverse-square law
  • jazz square
  • kid on the square
  • Latin square
  • lemon square
  • Logan Square
  • L square
  • machinist square
  • magic square
  • Malcolm Square-Perfecto
  • Manchester Square
  • mandarin square
  • market square
  • mean square
  • miter square
  • most-perfect magic square
  • multimagic square
  • Newtown Square
  • no-no square
  • nonsquare
  • non-square/nonsquare
  • on the square
  • optical square
  • over square
  • pandiagonal magic square
  • parade square
  • Parker square
  • perfect square
  • pocket square
  • Polybius square
  • polysquare
  • prayer square
  • prime reciprocal magic square
  • principal square root
  • public square
  • Punnett square
  • quasisquare
  • quasi-square/quasisquare
  • queening square
  • Rice Krispie square
  • Roman square capitals
  • roof square
  • root mean square
  • root mean square velocity
  • Sator square
  • semisquare
  • sesquisquare
  • set square
  • six-square
  • snub square antiprism
  • sq/sq.
  • sqr/sqr.
  • sqround
  • squarable
  • squarcle
  • Square and Compass
  • square annulus
  • square ball
  • square bashing
  • square-bracket
  • square breathing
  • square-cube law
  • squared
  • square dance/square-dance
  • square dancer
  • square degree
  • square division
  • square-eyed
  • square eyes
  • square footage
  • squarefree
  • square-free/squarefree
  • squareful
  • square-gaiter
  • square gin
  • squaregraph
  • square grouper
  • square-jawed
  • square john
  • square kilometer/square kilometre
  • square leg umpire
  • square-less/squareless
  • squarelike
  • square-like/squarelike
  • square-lipped rhinoceros
  • squareman
  • square meal
  • squareneck
  • square notation
  • square of opposition
  • Square of Pegasus
  • square on
  • square one
  • square one's shoulders
  • square peg in a round hole
  • square piano
  • square-pierced
  • square-pushing
  • square rig
  • square rigged/square-rigged
  • square-rigger
  • square roof
  • square-root/square root/squareroot
  • square root decomposition
  • square root of fuck all
  • squaresail
  • square sausage
  • square scooter/square-shooter
  • square script
  • square stern
  • Squaresville
  • square tab shingle
  • squaretail
  • squaretoes
  • square-up
  • squarewise
  • square-wise/squarewise
  • Squarial
  • squaric
  • Squariel
  • squaring
  • squarish
  • squaroid
  • squartle
  • squary
  • squircle
  • squircular
  • squirtle
  • squoval
  • steel square
  • subsquare
  • supersquare
  • three-square
  • Times Square
  • town square
  • Trafalgar Square
  • trimagic square
  • try-miter square
  • try square
  • T-square
  • under square
  • unsquarable
  • unsquare
  • upon the square
  • Willington Square
  • word square
  • Yorkshire square

Descendants

  • → Latvian: skvērs
  • → Polish: skwer
  • → Thai: สแควร์ (sà-kwɛɛ)
  • → Welsh: sgwâr

Translations

type of polygon
  • Afrikaans: vierkant (af)
  • Akan: ahinanan
  • Albanian: katror (sq) m
  • Altai:
    Southern Altai: квадрат (kvadrat), тӧрттолык (törttolïk)
  • Arabic: مُرَبَّع (ar) m (murabbaʕ)
    Egyptian Arabic: مربع m (murabbaʕ)
    Gulf Arabic: مربع m (murabbaʕ)
  • Armenian: քառակուսի (hy) (kʻaṙakusi)
  • Asturian: cuadru (ast) m, cuadráu (ast) m
  • Azerbaijani: kvadrat (az)
  • Basque: karratu
  • Belarusian: квадра́т m (kvadrát)
  • Bengali: বর্গ (bn) (borgo)
  • Bulgarian: квадра́т (bg) m (kvadrát)
  • Burmese: စတုရန်း (my) (ca.tu.ran:)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: квадра́т m (kvadrát)
  • Catalan: quadrat (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 正方形 (zh) (zhèngfāngxíng)
  • Cornish: pedrek (kw) m
  • Czech: čtverec (cs) m
  • Danish: kvadrat (da) n
  • Dutch: vierkant (nl) n
  • Edo: àdẹ́lẹ̏
  • Esperanto: kvadrato
  • Estonian: ruut (et)
  • Finnish: neliö (fi)
  • Franco-Provençal: quarrá m
  • French: carré (fr) m
  • Fula: sukoya (Nigeria)
  • Galician: cadro (gl) m, cadrado (gl) m
  • Georgian: კვადრატი (ḳvadraṭi)
  • German: Quadrat (de) n
  • Greek: τετράγωνο (el) n (tetrágono)
    Ancient Greek: τετράγωνον n (tetrágōnon)
  • Gujarati: ચોરસ m (coras)
  • Haitian Creole: kare
  • Hausa: mùr̃abbàʼī
  • Hawaiian: huinahā kaulike
  • Hebrew: רִבּוּעַ (he) m (ribúa')
  • Hindi: वर्गाकार m (vargākār), चौकोर (hi) m (caukor)
  • Hungarian: négyzet (hu)
  • Icelandic: ferningur (is) m
  • Ido: quadrato (io)
  • Igbo: nkom̀gbàànọǹhà, skwịà
  • Indonesian: persegi (id)
  • Ingrian: kvadratti
  • Irish: cearnóg (ga) f
  • Italian: quadrato (it) m
  • Izon: fánụ́
  • Japanese: 正方形 (ja) (せいほうけい, seihōkei), 平方形 (へいほうけい, heihōkei)
  • Kannada: ಚೌಕ (kn) (cauka), ಚದರ (kn) (cadara)
  • Kanuri: sǝkoya
  • Kazakh: квадрат (kk) (kvadrat), шаршы (šaršı)
  • Khmer: ចត្វ័ង្ស (km) (cattvang), ការ៉េ (km) (kaaree)
  • Korean: 정사각형(正四角形) (ko) (jeongsagakhyeong)
  • Kumyk: квадрат (kwadrat), дёртгюл (dörtgül)
  • Kyrgyz: квадрат (kvadrat), чарчы (ky) (carcı)
  • Lao: ຈະຕຸຣັດ (cha tu rat), ຈັດຕຸລັດ (chat tu lat)
  • Latin: quadrum n, quadrātum (la) n
  • Latvian: kvadrāts (lv) m
  • Lithuanian: kvadratas m
  • Macedonian: ква́драт (mk) m (kvádrat)
  • Malay: segi empat sama (ms), petak (ms)
  • Malayalam: സമചതുരം (ml) (samacaturaṁ)
  • Maltese: kwadru m
  • Manx: kerrin m
  • Māori: tapawhā rite
  • Marathi: चौरस m (ċauras), चौकोन m (caukon)
  • Mauritian Creole: kare
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: дөрвөлжин (mn) (dörvölžin), квадрат (mn) (kvadrat), тэгш дөрвөлжин (tegš dörvölžin) (Inner Mongolia)
  • Navajo: dikʼą́
  • Nepali: वर्ग (varga)
  • Norman: cârré m (Jersey)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: kvadrat (no) n
    Nynorsk: kvadrat n
  • Occitan: carrat (oc) m
  • Pashto: مربع m (moraba')
  • Persian:
    Dari: مُرَبَّع (murabba')
    Iranian Persian: مُرَبَّع (morabba')
  • Polish: kwadrat (pl) m inan
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt) m
  • Quechua: t'asra
  • Romanian: pătrat (ro) n, cvadrat (ro) n
  • Russian: квадра́т (ru) m (kvadrát)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceàrnan m, ceàrnag f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: ква̀дра̄т m
    Latin: kvàdrāt (sh) m
  • Silesian: kwadrat m
  • Slovak: štvorec m
  • Slovene: kvadrat (sl) m
  • Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: kwadrat m
    Upper Sorbian: kwadrat m
  • Spanish: cuadro (es) m, cuadrado (es) m
  • Swedish: kvadrat (sv) c, fyrkant (sv) c (informal)
  • Tagalog: kuwadrado, parisukat (tl)
  • Tajik: мураббаъ (tg) (murabba')
  • Tamil: கட்டம் (ta) (kaṭṭam), சதுரம் (ta) (caturam)
  • Tatar: квадрат (kwadrat)
  • Telugu: చతురస్రం (te) (caturasraṁ)
  • Thai: สี่เหลี่ยมจัตุรัส (th) (sìi-lìiam-jàt-dtù-ràt), จัตุรัส (th) (jàt-dtù-ràt)
  • Tibetan: གྲུ་བཞི (gru bzhi)
  • Turkish: kare (tr) n, dörtgen (tr), murabba (tr) (dated)
    Ottoman Turkish: مربع (murabba)
  • Turkmen: kwadrat
  • Ukrainian: квадра́т (uk) m (kvadrát)
  • Ulithian: kaahool’
  • Urdu: مُرَبَّع m (murabba')
  • Uyghur: كۋادرات (kwadrat)
  • Uzbek: kvadrat (uz)
  • Vietnamese: vuông (vi), hình vuông (vi)
  • Walloon: cwåré (wa) m
  • Welsh: sgwâr (cy) m or f, pedrongl (cy) m, petryal (cy) m
  • Xhosa: isikwere class 7/8
  • Yiddish: קוואַדראַט m (kvadrat)
  • Yoruba: súkúà
  • Zazaki: çarkusi f
  • Zulu: isikwele class 7/8
tool
  • Arabic: كُوس (kūs)
  • Bulgarian: ъ́гълник m (ắgălnik), ви́нкел (vínkel), линеа́л m (lineál)
  • Catalan: escaire (ca) m
  • Czech: úhelník (cs) m
  • Dutch: winkelhaak (nl) m
  • Finnish: suorakulma (fi)
  • Franco-Provençal: êquarra
  • French: équerre (fr) f
  • Greek: γνώμονας (el) m (gnómonas)
    Ancient Greek: προσαγωγεῖον n (prosagōgeîon), ἀλφάδιον n (alphádion), γνώμων (gnṓmōn), γωνία (gōnía)
  • Hungarian: derékszög (hu), derékszögmérő, szögvonalzó
  • Icelandic: réttskeið f
  • Italian: squadra (it) f
  • Japanese: 曲尺 (ja) (かねじゃく, kanejaku)
  • Korean: 곡척(曲尺) (gokcheok)
  • Latin: norma f
  • Lithuanian: kampainis m
  • Malay: sesiku
  • Māori: koea
  • Norman: êtchèrre f (Jersey)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: vinkelhake m
    Nynorsk: vinkelhake m
  • Old English: rihtebred
  • Polish: węgielnica (pl) f, kątownik m inan, ekier m
  • Portuguese: esquadro (pt) m
  • Romanian: echer (ro) n
  • Russian: уго́льник (ru) m (ugólʹnik)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceàrn-righailt f, cromadh-dìreach m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: пра̏в у̏гао m, вѝнкл m, винкла f
    Latin: prȁv ȕgao m, vìnkl (sh) m, vinkla (sh) f
  • Spanish: escuadra (es) f, cartabón (es) m (45º)
  • Sundanese: pasékon
  • Swedish: vinkelhake (sv) c
  • Turkish: gönye (tr)
open space in a town
  • Abkhaz: ашҭа (aŝta)
  • Afrikaans: plein
  • Albanian: shesh (sq) m
  • Amharic: አደባባይ (ʾädäbabay)
  • Arabic: مَيْدَان (ar) m (maydān)
  • Armenian: հրապարակ (hy) (hraparak)
  • Azerbaijani: meydan (az)
  • Bashkir: майҙан (mayðan)
  • Belarusian: пло́шча f (plóšča), майда́н m (majdán), пляц m (pljac)
  • Bulgarian: площа́д (bg) m (ploštád), пло́щад (bg) f (plóštad) (archaic stress and gender)
  • Burmese: ရင်ပြင် (my) (rangprang)
  • Catalan: plaça (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: 廣場 / 广场 (gwong2 coeng4)
    Eastern Min: 廣場 / 广场 (guōng-diòng)
    Hakka: 廣場 / 广场 (kóng-chhòng)
    Hokkien: 廣場 / 广场 (kóng-tiûⁿ / kóng-tiôⁿ)
    Mandarin: 廣場 / 广场 (zh) (guǎngchǎng)
    Wu: 廣場 / 广场 (5kuaon-zan)
  • Coptic: ⲕⲓⲙⲉⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲛ m (kimenasion)
  • Crimean Tatar: meydan
  • Czech: náměstí (cs) n
  • Danish: torv (da) n
  • Dutch: plein (nl) n, markt (nl) f, plaats (nl) f
  • Esperanto: placo
  • Estonian: väljak, plats (et)
  • Faroese: torg n
  • Finnish: aukio (fi), tori (fi)
  • French: place (fr) f, square (fr) m, square (fr) m
  • Gagauz: meydan
  • Galician: praza (gl) f, rueiro m, quinteiro m
  • Georgian: მოედანი (moedani)
  • German: Platz (de) m
  • Greek: πλατεία (el) f (plateía)
    Ancient Greek: πλατεῖα f (plateîa), τετράδειον n (tetrádeion)
  • Hebrew: כיכר / כִּכָּר (he) (kikár), רְחָבָה (he) f (r'ẖavá)
  • Hindi: चौक (hi) m (cauk)
  • Hungarian: tér (hu)
  • Icelandic: torg (is) n
  • Indonesian: lapangan (id)
  • Irish: cearnóg an bhaile f
  • Istriot: piassa f
  • Italian: piazza (it) f, sagrato (it) m
  • Japanese: 広場 (ja) (ひろば, hiroba)
  • Kazakh: алаң (alaŋ)
  • Khmer: វាល (km) (viəl)
  • Korean: 광장(廣場) (ko) (gwangjang)
  • Kyrgyz: аянт (ky) (ayant), майдан (maydan)
  • Lao: ຈັດຕຸລັດ (chat tu lat), ລານ (lān)
  • Latin: forum (la) n
  • Latvian: skvērs m, laukums m
  • Lithuanian: aikštė (lt) f
  • Macedonian: пло́штад m (plóštad)
  • Malay: dataran (ms)
  • Malayalam: കവല (ml) (kavala), ചത്വരം (ml) (catvaraṁ)
  • Manx: kerrin m, faaie f
  • Māori: tahua, marae
  • Marathi: चौक (mr) m (ċauk)
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: талбай (mn) (talbai)
  • Neapolitan: chiazza f
  • Nepali: चोक (ne) (cok)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: torg (no) n, plass (no) m
    Nynorsk: torg n, plass m
  • Occitan: plaça (oc) f
  • Old English: cēapstōw f, tēge m
  • Pashto: ميدان m (maydān)
  • Persian:
    Dari: مَیْدَان (maydān)
    Iranian Persian: مِیْدان (meydân)
  • Polish: skwer (pl) m inan, plac (pl) m inan, majdan (pl) m (sometimes)
  • Portuguese: praça (pt) f
  • Quechua: kancha
  • Romanian: piață (ro) f
  • Russian: пло́щадь (ru) f (plóščadʹ), сквер (ru) m (skver), плац (ru) m (plac) (military)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceàrnag f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: тр̏г m
    Latin: tȑg (sh) m
  • Slovak: námestie (sk) n
  • Slovene: trg (sl) m
  • Southern Altai: сквер (skver)
  • Spanish: plaza (es) f
  • Sranan Tongo: pren
  • Swedish: torg (sv) n
  • Tajik: майдон (tg) (maydon)
  • Tatar: мәйдан (tt) (mäydan)
  • Thai: สแควร์ (sà-kwɛɛ), จัตุรัส (th) (jàt-dtù-ràt), ลาน (th) (laan), พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa)
  • Turkish: meydan (tr)
    Ottoman Turkish: میدان (meydan)
  • Turkmen: meýdan (tk)
  • Ukrainian: пло́ща (uk) f (plóšča), майда́н (uk) m (majdán), плац m (plac)
  • Urdu: مَیدان m (maidān), چَوک m (cauk)
  • Uyghur: مەيدان (meydan)
  • Uzbek: maydon (uz)
  • Vietnamese: quảng trường (vi) (廣場)
  • Welsh: sgwâr (cy) m
  • Zazaki: meydan m
  • Zhuang: gvangjcangz
cell in a grid
  • Arabic: بيت (ar) m (bayt, literally “house”) (chess)
  • Bulgarian: квадра́тче n (kvadrátče)
  • Catalan: casella f
  • Czech: buňka (cs) f, čtverec (cs) m, pole (cs) n
  • Dutch: veld (nl)
  • Finnish: ruutu (fi)
  • French: case (fr) f
  • German: Feld (de) n, (chess) Schachfeld n
  • Greek: τετράγωνο (el) n (tetrágono)
  • Hungarian: mező (hu), négyzet (hu), cella (hu)
  • Italian: casella (it) f
  • Japanese: マス (ja) (masu)
  • Portuguese: casa (pt) f
  • Romanian: pătrat (ro) n
  • Russian: по́ле (ru) n (póle), кле́тка (ru) f (klétka)
  • Spanish: casilla (es) f
  • Swedish: fyrkant (sv) c, ruta (sv) c
  • Thai: ตาราง (th) (dtaa-raang)
  • Turkish: alan (tr), hane (tr) (chess)
  • Volapük: feled (vo), (chess) cögafeled
second power
  • Bulgarian: квадра́т (bg) m (kvadrát)
  • Catalan: quadrat (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 平方 (zh) (píngfāng)
  • Czech: druhá mocnina f, kvadrát (cs) m
  • Dutch: kwadraat (nl) n, tweede macht f
  • Finnish: neliö (fi), toinen potenssi
  • French: carré (fr) m
  • German: Quadrat (de) n
  • Greek: τετράγωνο (el) n (tetrágono)
  • Hungarian: négyzet (hu)
  • Icelandic: (please verify) annað veldi n, ferningstala f
  • Irish: uimhir chearnach f
  • Italian: quadrato (it) m
  • Japanese: 平方 (ja) (へいほう, heihō), 二乗 (ja) (にじょう, nijō), 自乗 (ja) (じじょう, jijō)
  • Korean: 제곱 (ko) (jegop), 평방(平方) (ko) (pyeongbang), 이승(二乘) (iseung), 자승(自乘) (ko) (jaseung)
  • Lithuanian: kvadratas m
  • Macedonian: ква́драт (mk) m (kvádrat)
  • Malay: kuasa dua
  • Malayalam: വർഗ്ഗം (vaṟggaṁ)
  • Marathi: वर्ग m (varga)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: kvadrat (no) m
    Nynorsk: kvadrat m
  • Polish: kwadrat (pl) m inan
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt) m
  • Romanian: pătrat (ro) n
  • Russian: квадра́т (ru) m (kvadrát)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: ква̀дра̄т m, дру̏гӣ сте̏пе̄н m
    Latin: kvàdrāt (sh) m drȕgī stȅpēn m
  • Slovene: kvadrat (sl) m
  • Spanish: cuadrado (es) m
  • Swahili: kipeo cha pili
  • Swedish: kvadrat (sv) c
  • Telugu: వర్గం (te) (vargaṁ)
  • Turkish: kare (tr)
  • Vietnamese: bình phương (vi)
  • Zazaki: kare (diq) c
body of troops in a square formation
  • Bulgarian: каре́ n (karé)
  • Catalan: quadre (ca) m
  • Finnish: neliö (fi)
  • Greek:
    Ancient Greek: πλινθίον n (plinthíon)
  • Italian: squadra (it) f
  • Russian: каре́ (ru) n (karɛ́)
  • Turkish: kale (tr)
    Ottoman Turkish: قلعه (kalʼe)
slang: socially conventional person — see also goody two shoes
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Catalan: carca (ca) m or f
  • Finnish: jäykkis
  • French: lambda (fr)
  • German: Normalo (de) m, Spießer (de) m, Stino (de) m
  • Hungarian: nyárspolgár (hu), begyöpösödött/begyepesedett alak
  • Italian: quadrato (it) m, convenzionale (it) m, equilibrato (it) m
  • Malay: seorang yang sosialnya konvensional, orang skema
  • Norwegian: A4
  • Polish: normik (pl) m pers
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt) m, careta (pt) m (Brazil)
  • Russian: обыва́тель (ru) m (obyvátelʹ), мещани́н (ru) m (meščanín)
  • Spanish: carca (es) m, carroza (es) m, cabeza cuadrada m or f, soso (es) m, zanahorio m (Colombia), aguacatado m (rare, Colombia), momio (es) m
  • Turkish: süt kuzusu (tr), muhallebi çocuğu (tr), iyilik timsali
the # symbol on a telephone
  • Bulgarian: решетка (bg) f (rešetka)
  • Catalan: coixinet (ca) m
  • Czech: křížek (cs) m
  • Danish: firkant (da)
  • Dutch: hekje (nl) n
  • Finnish: ruutu (fi), risuaita (fi)
  • French: carré (fr) m, dièse (fr) m
  • German: Doppelkreuz (de) n
  • Greek: δίεση (el) f (díesi)
  • Hebrew: סולמית (solamit)
  • Hungarian: kettős kereszt (hu)
  • Icelandic: ferningur (is) m
  • Indonesian: pagar (id)
  • Irish: hais f
  • Italian: cancelletto (it) m
  • Japanese: 井桁 (ja) (いげた, igeta), 番号記号 (ばんごうきごう, bangō kigō), ナンバーサイン (nambā sain)
  • Macedonian: та́раба f (táraba)
  • Malay: hash
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: firkanttast m
    Nynorsk: firkanttast m
  • Portuguese: cerquilha (pt) m, jogo da velha m
  • Russian: решётка (ru) f (rešótka)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: та̀раба f
    Latin: tàraba (sh) f
  • Spanish: almohadilla (es) f, numeral (es) m
  • Swedish: fyrkant (sv) c, brädgård (sv) c (slang), fyrkant (sv)
  • Turkish: kare (tr)
central area of a cricket field
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: neliö (fi)
  • Zazaki: werte (diq) c
unit of measurement of area
  • Bulgarian: квадрат (bg) m (kvadrat)
  • Finnish: sata neliöjalkaa
  • Italian: quadrato (it) m
  • Marathi: चौरस (cauras)
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt) m
unit for measuring roof area
  • Bulgarian: квадрат (bg) m (kvadrat)
  • Finnish: sata neliöjalkaa
  • Greek: τετραγωνικό (el) (tetragonikó) (sense: 100 sq.ft)
  • Italian: quadrato (it) m
  • Malay: kaki persegi (sense: 100 sq.ft)
dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: ruutu (fi)
mortarboard — see mortarboard
square meal — see square meal
pane of glass
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: ruutu (fi)
  • German: Scheibe (de) f
  • Swedish: ruta (sv) c
printing: portion of a column
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: neliön muotoinen palsta-alue
exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: suhta (fi)
harmony or exact agreement
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: sopusointu (fi)
astrology — see quadrate
act quarrelling — see quarrel
front of a woman's dress
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: miehusta (fi)
  • Zazaki: dolık f
slang: cigarette
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: rööki (fi), spaddu (fi)
  • Turkish: cigara
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Translations to be checked
  • French: (please verify) carreau (fr) m
  • German: (try square) (please verify) Anschlagwinkel (de) m, (T-square) (please verify) Zeichenschiene f
  • Indonesian: (please verify) persegi (id) (sense: 100 sq.ft)
  • Interlingua: (please verify) quadrato, (please verify) esquadra, (please verify) placia, (please verify) conventional, (please verify) conservator
  • Latin: (please verify) quadrum, (please verify) quadratum (la)
  • Māori: (please verify) porowhā rite
  • Romanian: (please verify) pătrat (ro) n, (please verify) echer (ro) n, (please verify) piață (ro) f

Adjective

square (comparative squarer, superlative squarest)

  1. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
    Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
    Coordinate terms: circular, oval, triangular, trapezoidal, rectangular, rhomboid
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […] .
  2. Forming a right angle (90°).
    Synonyms: orthogonal, perpendicular, normal
    Antonyms: crooked, out of square, oblique
    a square corner
    • 2017, Julia Rai, Making Metal Clay Jewellery:
      Take care to make the cut completely square to the edges of the wire to give a good butt join for the ends of the wire.
    • 2023 November 6, Joseph Bernstein, “Young Men Seek Answers to an Age-Old Question: How to Be Hot”, in The New York Times‎[7], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 January 2024:
      A September video from the TikTok user syrianpsycho, who promotes softmaxxing to his 1.2 million followers, bemoans the experience of going to restaurant while “mewing” (a technique that involves placing the tongue on the roof of the mouth, which Looksmaxxers believe makes the jaw grow squarer and stronger) and “starvemaxxing” (the Looksmaxxers’ term for extreme fasting).
    1. (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
      Antonyms: out of square, crooked, racked
      The foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.
      • 2019, Bruce W. Herdman, Ozarks Lite:
        The stacks had to be neat and square or the old guy grumbled and insisted on getting it just so.
    2. (nautical) Forming 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.
  3. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
    Coordinate terms: cubic, linear
    A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.
    square mile
    • 2025 August, “The International System of Units (SI)”, in Bureau International des Poids et Mesures‎[8], archived from the original on 17 September 2025, page 147:
      It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm2 or square millimetre), cc (for either cm3 or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
  4. Honest; straightforward; fair.
    Synonyms: above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight
    I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
    square dealing
    • 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
      Why, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?
    • 1900 [1878], Allan Pinkerton, Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches‎[9], New York: G. W. Dillingham, page 29:
      I believe you're a good, square man
    • 1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey:
      I am not very good at analysing things, but I felt that she talked a little uncomfortably and with a suspicion of effort, smiled rather conventionally, and was obviously glad to go. These things seem trifling enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was not square.
  5. Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
    • 2007, Lauren Heaton, Holly Bollinger, Catherine Lee Phillips, Susan Gartner, Women of the Harvest, page 63:
      By the confident tone in her voice, you can tell she is square with that.
    • 2009, Ramona Holliday, Winter Murders:
      " […] I will never act on it, but if you're satisfied with the way things are then I am, too. […] So, are we square?”
  6. Even; tied
    to make or leave the accounts square
    The sides were square at the end of the half.
    • 2000 December 16, “Islanders, Devils Make It Tough For Canadian Teams”, in Bryan Times:
      The teams were square while at even strength. have to play better than even if we want to win games." said Montreal goalie Jose Theodore
    • 2003 April 9, “Lowe Struggles Again In Sox Setback”, in Record-Journal:
      But the Jays were square again by the end of the inning, as Myers hit a 2-and-0 pitch into the left-center field seats
    • 2003 November 24, “Els's mates get better with time”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic.:
      The sides were square to the 14th hole when Goosen took birdie,
    • 2006 September 23, Jim McCabe, “As usual, Americans trailing after first day”, in The Columbus Dispatch:
      In each of the last three afternoon foursomes, the Americans were square through 15, but could only come in with two halves and a loss.
  7. (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
    • 1974, Jack Olsen, The Girls on the Campus, page 100:
      It was a square town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live a square life.
    • 1990, A. W. Gray, In Defense of Judges:
      The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.
    Synonym: bourgeois
  8. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
  9. Solid, decent, substantial.
    It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
    • c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
      By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.
    • 1879, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, Volume 9, page 1594:
      It is obvious two o'clock will arrive in about five and a half hours from now, and I presume every gentleman in the House would like to get a square breakfast.
    • 1899 February, “Stray Shots From Solomon”, in Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 12, number 2, page 51:
      If some of you who read this paragraph would quit scheming and get down to honest, square effort this year, your creditors would get their due and your families would be better kept.
    • 1986, Jan Irving, Robin Currie, Mudluscious, page 75:
      "Sarah," said her grandmother. "You should eat a good square meal."
    • 2012, Cathy MacPhail, Worse Than Boys:
      I said that because I didn't want any knives involved, and if Wizzie agreed to a square go now, with half the school listening, she couldn't go back on it.
  10. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
    a man of a square frame
  11. (automotive) Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
    Coordinate terms: oversquare, undersquare

Derived terms

  • all square
  • be there or be square
  • fair and square
  • oversquare, over-square, over square
  • square bracket
  • square centimetre, square centimeter
  • square circle
  • square dancing
  • square deal
  • square drive
  • square engine
  • square flipper, squareflipper
  • square foot
  • squarehead
  • square-headed
  • square inch
  • square knot
  • square Kufic
  • square leg
  • squarely
  • square matrix
  • square meal
  • square metre, square meter
  • square mile
  • squareness
  • square number
  • square pyramid
  • square rod
  • square root
  • square sail
  • square serif
  • square shooter
  • square-shouldered
  • square-toed
  • square wave
  • square yard
  • squround
  • T-squared
  • turn square corners
  • undersquare, under-square, under square

Translations

shaped like a square
  • Arabic: مُرَبَّع (ar) (murabbaʕ)
    Egyptian Arabic: مربع (murabbaʕ)
  • Asturian: cuadráu (ast)
  • Bulgarian: квадра́тен m (kvadráten)
  • Catalan: quadrat (ca)
  • Czech: čtvercový (cs)
  • Danish: kvadratisk
  • Dutch: vierkant (nl), vierkantig (nl)
  • Esperanto: kvadrata
  • Farefare: wẽkɔ
  • Finnish: neliömäinen (fi), neliskulmainen (fi)
  • French: carré (fr)
  • Galician: cadrado (gl)
  • German: quadratisch (de)
  • Greek: τετράγωνος (el) m (tetrágonos)
    Ancient Greek: τετράγωνος (tetrágōnos), τετραγωνικός (tetragōnikós), τετραγλώχις (tetraglṓkhis)
  • Hungarian: négyszögletes (hu)
  • Icelandic: ferningslaga
  • Indonesian: kotak (id), segiempat
  • Irish: cearnógach
  • Italian: quadrato (it)
  • Japanese: 四角い (ja) (しかくい, shikakui)
  • Kannada: ಚೌಕ (kn) (cauka)
  • Latin: quadrātus, quadrus
  • Malay: segi empat sama (ms)
  • Mauritian Creole: kare
  • Norman: cârré (Jersey)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: kvadratisk (no), firkantet (no), firkanta
    Nynorsk: kvadratisk, firkanta
  • Old English: fēowerecge, fēowerecgede, fēowersċīte, fiþerscȳte
  • Polish: kwadratowy (pl)
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt)
  • Romanian: pătrat (ro)
  • Russian: квадра́тный (ru) (kvadrátnyj)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceàrnagach
  • Spanish: cuadrado (es)
  • Swedish: kvadratisk (sv), fyrkantig (sv)
  • Telugu: చతురస్ర (caturasra)
  • Unami: ahshae
  • Walloon: cwåré (wa) m, cwårêye f
forming a right angle
  • Bulgarian: правоъгълен (pravoăgălen)
  • Czech: kolmý (cs) m
  • Danish: vinkelret på
  • Dutch: met rechte hoek
  • Finnish: kohtisuora (fi); suorakulmaisesti (adverb)
  • French: perpendiculaire à
  • German: rechtwinklig (de)
  • Greek: ορθογώνιος (el) m (orthogónios)
    Ancient Greek: τετράμετρος (tetrámetros), εὐγώνιος (eugṓnios), ἐγγώνιος (engṓnios), ἐπικάρσιος (epikársios), ὀρθός (orthós)
  • Hungarian: derékszögű (hu), merőleges (hu)
  • Icelandic: hornréttur
  • Italian: perpendicolare a
  • Malay: persegi
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: vinkelrett på
    Nynorsk: vinkelrett på
  • Portuguese: perpendicular (pt)
  • Russian: прямоуго́льный (ru) (prjamougólʹnyj)
  • Spanish: perpendicular (es)
  • Swedish: vinkelrät mot
  • Vietnamese: vuông (vi)
formed by multiplying two equal numbers
  • Bulgarian: точен квадрат m (točen kvadrat)
  • Finnish: neliö-
  • Greek:
    Ancient Greek: ἰδιομήκης (idiomḗkēs), ἰσόπλευρος (isópleuros), ἰσάκις ἴσος (isákis ísos), τετράγωνος (tetrágōnos), ποσάκις πόσος (posákis pósos), ὅμοιος (hómoios), αὐτομήκης (automḗkēs)
  • Russian: квадра́тный (ru) (kvadrátnyj)
used in the names of units
  • Arabic: مُرَبَّع (ar) (murabbaʕ)
  • Asturian: cuadráu (ast)
  • Bulgarian: квадра́тен m (kvadráten)
  • Catalan: quadrat (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 平方 (zh) (píngfāng)
  • Czech: čtvereční (cs)
  • Dutch: vierkant (nl)
  • Finnish: neliö- (fi)
  • French: carré (fr)
  • Galician: cadrado (gl)
  • Georgian: კვადრატული (ḳvadraṭuli)
  • German: Quadrat- (used as a prefix to form compound words)
  • Greek: τετραγωνικός (el) m (tetragonikós)
  • Hungarian: négyzet (hu)
  • Icelandic: fer-
  • Italian: quadrato (it)
  • Japanese: 平方 (ja) (へいほう, heihō)
  • Malay: persegi
  • Māori: pūrua
  • Norman: cârré (Jersey)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: kvadrat-
    Nynorsk: kvadrat-
  • Occitan: cairat (oc)
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt)
  • Russian: квадра́тный (ru) (kvadrátnyj)
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceàrnagach
  • Spanish: cuadrado (es)
  • Swedish: kvadrat-
  • Telugu: చదరపు (cadarapu)
  • Vietnamese: vuông (vi)
honest, straightforward
  • Bulgarian: прям (bg) (prjam), честен (bg) (česten)
  • Czech: čestný (cs) m, férový (cs) m, poctivý (cs) m
  • Finnish: suora (fi)
  • Russian: че́стный (ru) (čéstnyj), прямолине́йный (ru) (prjamolinéjnyj)
fair — see fair
even, tied
  • Bulgarian: правиле (pravile), наравно (bg) (naravno)
  • Finnish: tasoissa (fi), tasan (fi) (adverbs)
socially conventional
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Czech: nudný (cs) m
  • Finnish: konventionaalinen (fi), tiukkapipoinen (fi)
  • German: spießig (de)
  • Hungarian: kockafejű
  • Malay: (informal) skema
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: firkantet (no), firkanta
    Nynorsk: firkanta
  • Portuguese: quadrado (pt) m
  • Spanish: anticuado (es), cuadrado (es), cuadriculado (es), zanahorio (Colombia), aguacatado (rare, Colombia), momio (es)
  • Swedish: fyrkantig (sv)
cricket: in line with batsman's popping crease
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: samansuuntainen lyöjän lyöntialueen viivan kanssa
correctly aligned
  • Bulgarian: подравнен (bg) (podravnen)
  • Finnish: oikeansuuntainen
hearty, vigorous
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Czech: výživný m, vydatný (cs) m
  • Finnish: kunnollinen (fi)
having shape broad for the height, with angular outlines
  • Bulgarian: квадра́тен (kvadráten)
  • Finnish: neliömäinen (fi)
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  • Esperanto: (please verify) kvadrata
  • German: (4): (please verify) anständig (de); (5): (please verify) spießig (de)
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Adverb

square (comparative more square, superlative most square)

  1. Directly.
    • 2012, Allan A. Zarbock, Nobody, page 211:
      Staash tipped up the rim of his hat and looked me square in the eyes as the cigarette dangled from his lips.

Verb

A squared square (a square tiled with squares)

square (third-person singular simple present squares, present participle squaring, simple past and past participle squared)

  1. (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
    The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
    1. (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
      to square the yards
    2. (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
  2. (ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
    John can square this question up for us.
    These results just don't square with what we expected.
    • 2006, Gary Chartier, “Non-Human Animals and Process Theodicy”, in Religious Studies‎[10], volume 41, number 1, page 10:
      […] the process theist may not regard the killing of non-human animals for food or other reasons as generally acceptable. Call the process thinker who regards the killing of non-human animals for food as (usually) morally wrong a zoophile. Even if the zoophile regards human beings as more capable of experience and insight than another animals, and as therefore more valuable than other animals, she may regard non-human animals as moral patients. She may well not regard predatory animals as full moral agents; she will then have no reason to see their killing of other animals for food as itself morally wrong, because predators are not themselves subject to moral assessments. But she may still find it difficult to square God's encouragement of predation with an attractive account of divine goodness.
  3. (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
    I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
    to square our actions by the opinions of others
    • 1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
      Square my trial
      To my proportioned strength.
  4. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
  5. (transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
    square the circle
  6. (transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
  7. (slang) To settle; to put right.
    • 1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 90:
      'Sounds fine,' said Bond. 'I've talked to M and he'll square Washington if there's any trouble. Look after yourself too,' he added.
  8. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
    • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport‎[11], archived from the original on 7 January 2012:
      First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.
  9. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
  10. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
    • 1782, William Cowper, Charity:
      No works shall find acceptance […] that square not truly with the Scripture plan.
  11. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
    • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      Are you such fools / To square for this?
  12. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:
      There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder, and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch.
  13. To form with four sides and four right angles.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      A stately pallace built of squared bricke,
      Which cunningly was without morter laid
  14. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
    to square mason's work
    • 2002, William Boyd, Any Human Heart:
      Everything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.
  15. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
    • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
      to square the general sex By Cressid's rule
  16. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
    • 1697, Thomas Creech, The five books of M. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology, done into English verse:
      the icy Goat, the Crab that square the Scales

Derived terms

  • square around
  • square away
  • square off
  • square one's shoulders
  • square the circle
  • square up
  • square with
  • ²

Translations

to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle
  • Bulgarian: подравнявам (bg) m (podravnjavam), подравня (bg) pf (podravnja)
  • Catalan: arreglar (ca), escairar (ca)
  • Czech: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: suoristaa (fi)
  • French: please add this translation if you can
  • Greek: εξισώνω (el) (exisóno)
    Ancient Greek: τετραγωνίζω (tetragōnízō)
  • Latvian: please add this translation if you can
  • Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
  • Māori: tapawhā
  • Portuguese: alinhar (pt)
  • Romanian: please add this translation if you can
  • Spanish: alinear (es)
  • Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
to resolve — see also resolve
  • Bulgarian: съгласувам (bg) (săglasuvam)
  • Dutch: oplossen (nl)
  • Finnish: ratkaista (fi)
  • Interlingua: resolver
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: løse (no)
    Nynorsk: løyse
  • Portuguese: resolver (pt)
  • Spanish: resolver (es), cuadrar (es)
to adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something
  • Bulgarian: съгласувам (bg) (săglasuvam)
  • Finnish: sovittaa (fi), selittää (fi)
  • Greek: κανονίζω (el) (kanonízo)
  • Russian: согласо́вывать (ru) impf (soglasóvyvatʹ)
  • Ukrainian: узго́джувати impf (uzhódžuvaty), узго́дити pf (uzhódyty)
math: to multiply by itself
  • Bulgarian: повди́гам на квадра́т (povdígam na kvadrát)
  • Catalan: elevar al quadrat (ca)
  • Czech: umocnit
  • Danish: kvadrere (da)
  • Dutch: kwadrateren (nl), tot de tweede macht verheffen
  • Esperanto: kvadratigi (eo)
  • Finnish: korottaa toiseen potenssiin, korottaa neliöön
  • French: élever au carré (fr)
  • German: quadrieren (de)
  • Greek: υψώνω στο τετράγωνο (ypsóno sto tetrágono)
    Ancient Greek: τετραγωνίζω (tetragōnízō)
  • Indonesian: kuadrat (id), pangkat dua
  • Interlingua: quadrar
  • Japanese: 二乗する (nijō suru), 自乗する (jijō suru)
  • Malay: kuasa dua
  • Māori: pūrua
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: kvadrere
    Nynorsk: kvadrere
  • Polish: podnosić do kwadratu (pl), podnosić do drugiej potęgi
  • Portuguese: elevar ao quadrado
  • Spanish: elevar al cuadrado
  • Swedish: kvadrera (sv)
geometry: to draw a square with same area as something else
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: neliöidä (fi)
  • Greek:
    Ancient Greek: τετραγωνίζω (tetragōnízō)
soccer: to make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: syöttää poikittain, antaa poikittaissyöttö
to take opposing sides — see quarrel
to be consistent with
  • Bulgarian: схождам се (shoždam se)
  • Finnish: noudattaa (fi), olla jonkin mukainen
  • Russian: согласо́вываться (ru) impf (soglasóvyvatʹsja)
to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: asettua poikkiteloin
to take a boxing attitude
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: ottaa nyrkkeilyasento
to form with four sides and four right angles
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: muotoilla neliöksi, asettaa neliön muotoon
to form with right angles and straight lines
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: muotoilla neliöksi, asettaa neliön muotoon
to compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard
  • Finnish: verrata (fi), rinnastaa (fi)
astrology: to hold a quartile position respecting
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: olla suorassa kulmassa ... nähden
nautical: to place at right angles with the keel
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: jalustaa poikittain (of the sail)
rowing: to rotate oars to be perpendicular to the water
  • Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
  • Finnish: kääntää vetoasentoon, kääntää lapa pystyyn

See also

  • cubic
  • quadrilateral
  • rectangle
  • rhombus

Further reading

  • square on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Le square Victoria, à Montréal

Etymology

    Borrowed from English square. Doublet of équerre.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /skwaʁ/
    • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

    Noun

    square m (plural squares)

    1. square (public plaza)
      La manifestation a débuté au square Saint-Louis.
      The protest began in Saint Louis Square.
    2. small public garden in the middle of a square
      le square de la tour Saint-Jacques
      the park surrounding the Tour Saint-Jacques

    Further reading

    • “square”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

    Anagrams

    • arques, raques

    Middle English

    Alternative forms

    • sqware, squyre, squyer, sqyre, squar, sware

    Etymology

    From Old French esquarre, esquerre (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- +‎ quadro, from quadrus.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈskwaːr(ə)/, /ˈskwɛːr(ə)/, /ˈskwiːr(ə)/

    Noun

    square (plural squares)

    1. A square (tool used to ensure a right angle)
    2. A square (equilateral rectangle); a square plot of land.
    3. One of the edges of a square.
    4. In late medieval English, an esquire.

    Descendants

    • English: square
    • Scots: square

    References

    • “squār(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.
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