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(a) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
(n) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon; "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
(n) the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
(n) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
(n) something approximating the shape of a square
(n) someone who doesn''t understand what is going on
(n) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
(n) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
(n) a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"
(r) in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"
(r) with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square"
(r) in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"
(r) firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"
(s) characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing"
(s) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
(v) raise to the second power
(v) make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
(v) cause to match, as of ideas or acts
(v) position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"
(v) be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
(v) pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"
(v) turn the paddle; in canoeing
(v) turn the oar, while rowing

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