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Look up: Square

  1. Square
    A term of respect. Any man of courage, honesty, self- reliance, and devotion to what he believed to be right was ' square ' and darn proud of-it.
    Found on http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm/gloss

  2. Square
    A ram air parachute as opposed to a round parachute
    Found on http://www.dropzone.com/safety/resources

  3. Square
    An unopened cotton flower with its enclosing bracts
    Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos

  4. square
    [adj] - having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle 2. [adj] - characterized by honesty and fairness 3. [adj] - (slang) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned 4. [n] - (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles 5. [n] - the product of two equal terms 6. [n] - someone who doesn`t understand what is going on 7. [n] - (informal) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views 8. [n] - any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles 9. [n] - a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles 10. [v] - cause to match, as of ideas or acts 11. [v] - be compatible with 12. [v] - pay someone and settle a debt 13. [v] - position so as to be square 14. [v] - raise to the second power 15. [v] - make square
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Square
    The square is a single sheet of netting which joins the belly and the top wings and acts as a cover to prevent the fish from escaping the path of the trawl by swimming upwards clear of the net
    Found on http://www.cefas.co.uk/glossary.aspx

  6. Square
    A number raised to the power 2 ie 2 x 2 = 22 = 4. Also, a 2 dimensional figure with the height and width having the same lengths,and at right angles to each other.function init(){}
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  7. Square
    Definition: The # keyboard symbol. See Octothorpe Variant spellings: squaresign; squaremark; squaresymbol; squarekey
    Found on http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/dictio

  8. Square
    (language) A query language, a precursor to SQL. ['Specifying Queries as Relational Expressions: The SQUARE Data Sublanguage', R.E. Boyce et al, CACM 18(11):621-628 (Nov 1975)]. (1995-05-02)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  9. square
    A rectangle with 4 equal sides
    Example:
    26 in.
    26 in.26 in.
    26 in.
    Found on http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/math2/i

  10. square
    the square end of a machine part, especially of one intended to be gripped and turned; e.g. a driving square for tools Category: Mechanical engineering • a) a unit of 100ft2 (9.3m2)of sawn, hewn or cleft timber, irrespective of thickness; b) the amount of timber required to cover an area of 100ft2 (9.3m2)exclusive of overlap, as with shingles, weatherboarding Category: Various indus...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  11. Square
    A unit of measure, e.g. 100 square feet, usually applied to roofing material. Sidewall coverings are sometimes packed to cover 100 square feet and are sold on that basis.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/

  12. Square
    Definition (keystage 1) A shape with four sides which are all the same length.
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  13. Square
    Definition (keystage 2) A regular quadrilateral. <br /> It is a rectangle whose sides are all the same length. <br /> It has four lines of symmetry.<br /> Opposite sides are parallel, and all four angles are right angles (90 ∘ ).
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  14. Square
    Definition (keystage 3) A regular quadrilateral.<br /> It is a rectangle whose sides are all the same length<br /> It has four lines of symmetry, and rotational symmetry of order 4. <br /> Opposite sides are parallel, and all four angles are right angles (90 ∘ ). <br /> Its diagonals bisect each other at right angles, ...
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  15. Square
    Square noun [ Old French esquarre , esquierre , French équerre a carpenter's square (cf. Italian squadra ), from (assumed) Late Latin exquadrare to make square; Latin ex + quadrus a square, from quattuor four. See Four , and confer Quadrant , Squad , Squer a square.] 1. (Geom.) (a) The corner, ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/177

  16. Square
    Square adjective 1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure. 2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner. 3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame. 4. Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. « She's a ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/177

  17. Square
    Square transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Squared ; present participle & verbal noun Squaring .] [ Confer Old French escarrer , esquarrer . See Square , noun ] 1. To form with four sides and four right angles. Spenser. 2. To form with right angles and s ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/177

  18. Square
    Square intransitive verb 1. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit. « No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan.» Cowper. 2. To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel. [ Obsolete] « Are you such fools To ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/177

  19. square
    1. <geometry> The corner, or angle, of a figure. A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles. ... 2. Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so; as: A square piece or fragment. 'He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches.' (Sir W. Scott) ... A pane of glass. ... One hundred superficial feet. ... 3 ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  20. square
    straight adjective rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  21. square
    adjective having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; `a square peg in a round hole`; `a square corner`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. square
    noun 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  23. square
    square toes noun a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  24. square
    second power noun the product of two equal terms; `nine is the second power of three`; `gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  25. square
    foursquare noun (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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?


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