Multangular and 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.

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