square 中文

名词 (Noun)PLsquares

(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.

An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. - The Carpenter's Square

An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.

A cell in a grid.

You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.

(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.

64 is the square of 8.

(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

SLA A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s.

The sad sack was a sitting on a block of stone / Way over in the corner weepin' all alone. / The warden said, hey, buddy, don't you be no square / If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair.

(Britain) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

Enter your account number followed by a square.

(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.

(real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.

2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 [1]
2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [2]

(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

(Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.

(academia) A mortarboard.

COL (US) A square meal.

Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.

A pane of glass.

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.

The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

SLA Cigarette.

动词 (Verb)SGsquaresPRsquaringPT, PPsquared

VT To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
1. The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.

To resolve.

John can square this question up for us.
These results just don't square.

To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
to square our actions by the opinions of others

VT (mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

VT To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.

square the circle

(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch.

First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.

(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

OBS To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.

To form with four sides and four right angles.

To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

to square mason's work

To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

(nautical) To place at right angles with the keel.

to square the yards

形容词 (Adjective)COMsquarerSUPsquarest

Shaped like a square (the polygon).
1. 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, [ …] .

Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) 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.

a square corner

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

square metre ‎
square mile ‎

Honest; straightforward.

square dealing

Fair.

I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair. ‎

Even; tied.

to make or leave the accounts square

SLA Socially conventional; boring.

(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.

Correctly aligned with respect to something else.

hearty; vigorous.

It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day. ‎

Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

a man of a square frame

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- ... and insist upon forcing a square peg into a round hole, because in a round hole you, being a round peg, feel tight and comfortable.
- The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.
- The square roots of 4 are 2 and -2, the square root of 0 is 0, and -5 has no square root.

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