{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "skwɛr" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/square.jpg", "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/square.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/square.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/square.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- + quadro, from quadrus." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A cell in a grid.\nYou may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces." }, { "mean": "A square piece, part, or surface.\na square of glass" }, { "mean": "The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered." }, { "mean": "(Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert." }, { "mean": "(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.\nCoordinate term: column inch" }, { "mean": "(figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern." }, { "mean": "(often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.\nSynonym: place" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "square (comparative squarer, superlative squarest)\n\n Shaped like a square (the polygon).\n1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: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, .\nHypernyms: rectangular, polygonal\nCoordinate terms: circular, oval, triangular, trapezoidal, rectangular, rhomboid\n Forming a right angle (90°).\n2017, 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.\na square corner\nSynonyms: orthogonal, perpendicular, normal\nAntonyms: crooked, out of square, oblique\n (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.\n2019, 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.\nThe foundation has to be level and the framing has to be square.\nAntonyms: out of square, crooked, racked\n (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.\n Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.\nsquare metre\nsquare mile\nCoordinate terms: cubic, linear\n Honest; straightforward; fair.\nI'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.\nsquare dealing\nSynonyms: above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight\n1828, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Pelham, Or, Adventures of a Gentleman\nWhy, you would not be boosing till lightman's in a square crib like mine, as if you were in a flash panny?\n1900 , Allan Pinkerton, Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches, New York G. W. Dillingham, page 29:I believe you're a good, square man\n1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey\nI 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.\nSatisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.\n2007, 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.\n2009, 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?”\n Even; tied\nto make or leave the accounts square\n2000 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\n2003 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\n2003 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,\n2006 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.\nThe sides were square at the end of the half.\n (slang,derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.\n2014, A. W. Gray, In Defense of Judges:The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.\n2020, 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.\nSynonym: bourgeois\n (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.\n Solid, decent, substantial.\nIt may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.\nc. 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.\n1879, 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.\n1899 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.\n1986, Jan Irving, Robin Currie, Mudluscious, page 75:\"Sarah,\" said her grandmother. \"You should eat a good square meal.\"\n2012, 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.\n Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.\na man of a square frame" } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Directly.\n2012, 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." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:\nThe casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.", "submean": [ "(nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.\nto square the yards", "(rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.\nJohn can square this question up for us.\nThese results just don't square with what we expected." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.\nI cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.\nto square our actions by the opinions of others\n1634 October 9 (first performance), , H Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:  , London: 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." }, { "mean": "(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power." }, { "mean": "(transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.\nsquare the circle" }, { "mean": "(transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares." }, { "mean": "(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch\n2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport‎:First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert." }, { "mean": "(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel." }, { "mean": "To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.\n1782, William Cowper, Charity\nNo works shall find acceptance that square not truly with the Scripture plan." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.\nc. 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Are you such fools / To square for this?" }, { "mean": "To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.\n1860 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." }, { "mean": "To form with four sides and four right angles.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:A stately pallace built of squared bricke, Which cunningly was without morter laid" }, { "mean": "To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.\nto square mason's work\n2002, William Boyd: Any Human Heart:\nEverything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack." }, { "mean": "To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.\nc. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :to square the general sex By Cressid's rule" }, { "mean": "(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.\n1697, Thomas Creech, The five books of M. 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