Complement and Square

complement

noun

A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
A complete number or quantity.
- usage: "a full complement"
Number needed to make up a whole force.
- usage: "a full complement of workers"
- synonyms: full complement
Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
- usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
- synonyms: accompaniment
One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

verb

Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
- usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

(v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
(v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
(v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
(v.t.) To compliment.
(v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
(v.t.) A compliment.
(v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
(v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
(v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
(v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

square

noun

Geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon. (
- usage: "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
- synonyms: foursquare
The product of two equal terms.
- usage: "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
- synonyms: second power
An open area at the meeting of two or more streets.
- synonyms: public square
Something approximating the shape of a square.
Someone who doesn't understand what is going on.
- synonyms: lame
A formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.
- synonyms: square toes
Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles.
- usage: "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
A hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles.
- usage: "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"

verb

Make square.
- usage: "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
- synonyms: square up
Raise to the second power.
Cause to match, as of ideas or acts.
Position so as to be square.
- usage: "He squared his shoulders"
Be compatible with.
- usage: "one idea squares with another"
Pay someone and settle a debt.
- usage: "I squared with him"
Turn the paddle; in canoeing.
- synonyms: feather
Turn the oar, while rowing.
- synonyms: feather

adjective

Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle.
- usage: "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
Characterized by honesty and fairness.
- usage: "straight dealing"; "a square deal"
- synonyms: straight
Providing abundant nourishment.
- usage: "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"
- synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial
Leaving no balance.
- usage: "my account with you is now all square"
Without evasion or compromise.
- usage: "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
- synonyms: straightforward, straight
Rigidly conventional or old-fashioned.
- synonyms: straight

adverb

In a straight direct way.
- usage: "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"
- synonyms: squarely
In a square shape.
- usage: "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"
- synonyms: squarely
Firmly and solidly.
- usage: "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"
- synonyms: squarely

(n.) One hundred superficial feet.
(n.) A pane of glass.
(n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.
(n.) To compare with or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
(a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
(n.) To form with right angles and straight lines or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
(a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
(a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
(n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
(a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
(n.) A square piece or fragment.
(a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
(n.) The corner or angle, of a figure.
(n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
(n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
(n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.
(v.i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.
(v.i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense or of defiance; to quarrel.
(n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony or exact agreement; equality; level.
(n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
(n.) The act of squaring or quarreling; a quarrel.
(v.i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
(a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
(n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
(n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
(a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
(n.) Hence, anything which is square or nearly so.
(n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
(n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
(a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
(n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
(n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
(n.) A body of troops formed in a square, especially one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
(n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

square is an area of 100 square feet, in terminology referring to the size of a roof.

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