squaresquare1 /skweə $ skwer/ ●●● S2 W3 adjective 
a large square room2angle forming a 90° angle, or being close to or similar to a 90° angle: square corners3square metre/mile etc an area of measurement equal to a square with sides a metre long, a mile long etc: about four square metres of ground4five feet/two metres etc square having the shape of a square with sides that are five feet, two metres etc long: The room is six metres square.5level [not before noun] parallel with a straight linesquare with I don’t think the shelf is square with the floor.6square meal a good satisfying meal: Children should have three square meals a day.7body if someone’s body or a part of their body is square, it looks broad and strong: a square jaw8all square British English to have the same number of points as your opponent in a competition: The teams were all square at the end of the first half.9(all) square informal if two people are square, they do not owe each other any money: Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square.10square deal honest and fair treatment from someone, especially in business: I’m not getting a square deal here.11boring informal someone who is square is boring and old-fashioned12a square peg in a round hole informal someone who is in a job or situation that is not suitable for them—squareness noun [uncountable] → win (something)/beat somebody fair and square at fair3(1)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a square backyard
- a square corner
- It's important to be square with clients.
- He was seated in a deep armchair with flat, square sides.
- In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.
- Rolling white sand dunes surrounded by a large oasis of swaying palm trees with a square fort in the middle.
- Roy Fredericks always favoured the square cut.
- The floor is only ten inches square so you can't sit down or squat in it.
- The pair moved down the centre line and halted square and dead centre.
- The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.
Longman Language Activatorhaving a particular shape
use this to say what shape something is: · The windows were round, like the windows on a ship.· "What shape is the table?" "It's long and rectangular."be round/square etc in shape: · There was another building, octagonal in shape, close by.
use this to say that something has the same shape as something else: star-shaped/heart-shaped/L-shaped etc: · He gave me a necklace with a heart-shaped locket.· Gus lived in an apartment in a U-shaped courtyard.shaped like: · On the table were salt and pepper shakers shaped like teddy bears.
use this to say that something has the same shape as something else: · a beautiful blue bowl in the shape of a flower· There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart on the main table.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square. I’m not getting a square deal here.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The dining room was square in shape. an area of 9,000 square yardsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square. I’m not getting a square deal here.· A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
(=a small square piece)· I only ate one small square of chocolate.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(also a proper meal British English) (=with enough good food to satisfy you)· I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
The dining room was square in shape. (=stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way)· She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
an area of 9,000 square yards· A square block of flats was almost finished; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper.· I soon learn there are six other resident hotels within a few square blocks.· Second, you could nail up corner blocks, those square blocks of pine with a an embossed circle in the middle.· With shops filling nearly four square blocks, the walk will be invigorating but not lengthy.· We had in mind to put in a square block of an indoor amusement park and we had it all designed.· It had 300, 000 inhabitants; its population could fit inside a few square blocks of Manhattan.
· The square bracket shows the position of the insert.· The square brackets reveal the position and length of the inserts.· Note: Practitioners must decide whether they wish to include the words in square brackets.· Unless otherwise specified, all fields have a maximum length of 20 characters, including colons, square brackets, etc.· These are the plus, the stroke, the colon, the square brackets and the double colon.· Remember that it must be 20 characters maximum, including square brackets.· The numbers in square brackets are the absolute numbers, given to illustrate the incidence of both in the data.
· Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.· Then everything reverses, as in a square dance.· It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance.
· By 1811 this nursery had over 30,000 square feet of glass.· When Bill and Melanie Parsons began designing their house, they figured they had 2, 200 square feet to play with.· Any personnel manager who has three or four square feet of desk space can install the equipment.· He pointed out that, with 20,000 square feet of space, the store can repair 20 tractors at a time.· The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team.· The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.· This 64,000 square foot office block went for £3m.· Its tallest building is 14 stories, while the two largest have nearly 500, 000 square feet each.
· Software houses have been slow to response but the square footage sold to date is reportedly ahead of schedule.· That way you could make do with a tenth the square footage.
· This is rather over 2000 tons per square inch.· Rats have less than a square inch of cortex, less than humans by a factor of 500.· You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.· In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.· Pluto and Lawrence & Wishart were there, all 18 square inches of them.· Each pad, about a square inch, treats half a cubic foot.· That means its print head can squirt 1, 440, 000 little dots of ink on each square inch of paper.· He looked me over carefully, appraising every visible square inch.
· Her sunken face, straight thin mouth, and square jaw spelled suffering and dedication as well as determination.· He was handsome, coffee colored, with close-cropped black hair, dark eyes, a square jaw, big hands.
· An array a square kilometre in size should see neutrino sources if there are any, Halzen says.· The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.· It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world.
· Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete.· In 5700 the principality of Piedmont measured about 16, 500 square kilometres in extent.· In total, the seven states lost 1,003 square kilometres of forest area and gained 492 square kilometres.· The Pantanal, at 140,000 square kilometres, is the world's largest wetland area.· So far palaeontologists have only scratched the surface of a formation that Rauhut estimates covers at least several hundred square kilometres.
· A square matrix having zeros everywhere except in the principal diagonal is called a diagonal matrix and is clearly symmetric.
· Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal.· So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
· It comes in 16 plain colours and costs £13 per square metre.· This is the amount that beams on average on to each square metre, even in cloudy, wintry Britain.· Two years later their numbers were still no higher than 2,000 per square metre.· Locusts can swarm in densities of 15,000 per square metre.· The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.· The project's treatments cost as little as 54p per square metre.· Order the terrazzo by the square metre.· The new 680 square metre hall will offer improved facilities.
· The central plaza of this city once covered 176,000 square metres.· We are planning to launch a test sail of 400 square metres, by the end of next year.· To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 square metres of exposed Chlorella.· The algae tanks were stacked so they took less than 8 square metres floor space.· The new plan measures 10,554 m2 of which only 8,322 square metres will be usable space.· Linear measurements may be given either in imperial or metric units, but area is normally quoted in square metres.· Only 10% of the total area, or approx. 1,500 square metres will be dedicated to displaying works of art.· The new machine is capable of producing 800-1000 square metres daily and should be operational before the Christmas holidays.
· The Exe Vale group served a largely rural area covering 2,000 square miles with a population of 600,000.· Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.· The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.· They filmed every aspect of life in an area of twenty-four square miles of north Oxfordshire.· The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.· A huge, 150 square mile, national forest is now in the process of being planted in the East Midlands.· Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.· They chose an area of twenty-four square miles in north Oxfordshire and spent a whole spring filming every aspect of life there.
· The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.· Millions of us, natives and refugees, lived in those few hundred square miles.· The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.· Walkup counts among his first-year triumphs the annexation of 26 square miles of state trust land on the city's southeast side.· A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.· Since Thursday, he said, Coast Guard cutters and smaller boats have criss-crossed 17, 500 square miles.· Fifty thousand square miles we covered.· However, when magnified over millions of square miles of ocean, the energy forces affecting the atmosphere can be substantial.
· Dinner in Luigi's, coffee and then later red wine in Hudson's large square room.· The interior was a large, square room.· It was big, square room with a polished floor and a high ceiling.
· The distribution remains normal but the standard deviation decreases as the square root of n, the sample size.· Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.· Therefore, taking the square root of this measure we get the correlation coefficient; i.e.. 11.· Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.· Excluding the few outliers, we can calculate the square root of the average squared error over all subjects for each repetition.· A number of early computers had an instruction to extract a square root, but nowadays this operation is achieved by software.· Does this have a square root?
· The kids are all scrubbed and coiffed, backpacks fitted firmly on square shoulders.
· This square tower has circular turrets on each side, the whole making a fortified place of retreat.· To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church.· There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.· After being severely damaged in a storm, the spire was replaced with a square tower in 1969.· It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.· At Brantford rounded ends were combined with a square tower.· The square tower is rib vaulted and its windows give good light to the cathedral.
· A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.· It seemed that there was not a square yard on the field free from fire.· Sadler's used 1,900 square yards - made more impervious to the gas by an inner coat of rubber.· I found where they had bedded down as a group, within about 50 square yards.· You can buy them in boxes of four to cover an area of a square yard.· The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 square yards.· A carpet costing around £33 per square yard may seem an unromantic substitute for a honeymoon.· All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► a square peg in a round hole► five feet/two metres etc square
1shape having four straight equal sides and 90° angles at the corners: - At the next they were all square when Lyle missed from three feet.
- Dennis Conner will start all square with no technological edge.
- Good play from Wilson at the 15 and a birdie 3 at the 16 brought the match all square once again.
- In the ultimate, within a reflecting boundary, all squares will be occupied.
- It seems they're all square in the sexy filming battle.
- It was a thrilling encounter with Colm going two up quite early in the round and getting pegged back to all square.
- That's how to keep things all square with the Umpire.
- At the next they were all square when Lyle missed from three feet.
- Dennis Conner will start all square with no technological edge.
- Good play from Wilson at the 15 and a birdie 3 at the 16 brought the match all square once again.
- In the ultimate, within a reflecting boundary, all squares will be occupied.
- It seems they're all square in the sexy filming battle.
- It was a thrilling encounter with Colm going two up quite early in the round and getting pegged back to all square.
- That's how to keep things all square with the Umpire.
- Can not you trust me to ensure a square deal and to ensure even justice between man and man?
- He likes the other fellow to have a square deal.
- We believe that that is a square deal for the housing movement.
- A square mile of orchards shows no sign of anyone picking anything.
- Half a dozen females share a nest, a simple hollow within the square mile or so of a male's territory.
- Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.
- It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country.
- Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.
- The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
- The Buxton Springs are surrounded by 550 square miles of spectacular natural landscape.
- This system was probably capable of supporting about 400 people per square mile.
- Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal.
- So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
- Some days he ate three square meals; sometimes he barely stopped to shove a doughnut into his mouth.
- When making wraps at home, the following tips will simplify rolling or wrapping these scrumptious square meals.
a large square room2angle forming a 90° angle, or being close to or similar to a 90° angle: square corners3square metre/mile etc an area of measurement equal to a square with sides a metre long, a mile long etc: about four square metres of ground4five feet/two metres etc square having the shape of a square with sides that are five feet, two metres etc long: The room is six metres square.5level [not before noun] parallel with a straight linesquare with I don’t think the shelf is square with the floor.6square meal a good satisfying meal: Children should have three square meals a day.7body if someone’s body or a part of their body is square, it looks broad and strong: a square jaw8all square British English to have the same number of points as your opponent in a competition: The teams were all square at the end of the first half.9(all) square informal if two people are square, they do not owe each other any money: Here’s your £10 back, so that makes us square.10square deal honest and fair treatment from someone, especially in business: I’m not getting a square deal here.11boring informal someone who is square is boring and old-fashioned12a square peg in a round hole informal someone who is in a job or situation that is not suitable for them—squareness noun [uncountable] → win (something)/beat somebody fair and square at fair3(1)