Square and Patch

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.

patch

noun

A small contrasting part of something.
- usage: "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"
- synonyms: spot, speckle, dapple, fleck, maculation
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
- usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
- synonyms: plot, plot of land, plot of ground
A piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole.
A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.
- usage: "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
- synonyms: while, piece, spell
A short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program.
A connection intended to be used for a limited time.
- synonyms: temporary hookup
Sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment. )
- usage: "her stockings had several mends"
- synonyms: mend, darn
A protective cloth covering for an injured eye.
- synonyms: eyepatch
A piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body.
- synonyms: bandage

verb

To join or unite the pieces of.
- usage: "patch the skirt"
- synonyms: piece
Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
- usage: "The field was patched with snow"
Mend by putting a patch on.
- usage: "patch a hole"
- synonyms: patch up
Repair by adding pieces.
- usage: "She pieced the china cup"
- synonyms: piece

(n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
(n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
(n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
(v.t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
(v.t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
(n.) A piece of cloth or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
(v.t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
(n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
(n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
(n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck, to hide a defect or to heighten beauty.
(v.t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather or the like; as, to patch a coat.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Patch is a masculine given name

Name Meaning: Form of Peter. A rock
Name Origin: American

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