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Square Up

Definition: Square Up

Square Up

Verb

1. Make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file".

2. Even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing.

3. Settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Square Up

Synonyms: determine (v), even up (v), jog (v), settle (v), square (v), square off (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Square Up

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Painting

Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Image Slideshow: Square Up

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Expressions: Square Up

Expressions using "square up": square up to square up to problem square up with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Square Up

Language Translations for "square up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shlyhem (check out), vihem ballëpërballë, pres në kënd të drejtë (Square). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سدد حسابا (settle, square). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уреждам сметките си с някого (square away), приготвям се за бой (square away), поставям в пълен ред. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyrovnat úèet, vypořádat se (tackle). (various references)

   

Danish

  

afregne (settle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afrekenen (settle). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kvitiĝi (settle). (various references)

   

French

  

régler ses comptes. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

rekkenje (account, calculate, count, figure, settle, work out), ôfrekkenje (settle). (various references)

   

German

  

kampfstellung annehmen (square off), in kampfstellung gehen, abrechnen (cash up, count down, deduct, get even, liquidate, settle, settle up, take off, to deduct). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעשות חשבון (make up an account, reckon, score, take stock), ל"ס"יר (adjust, order, put to order, regularize, regulate, settle), לס'ור חשבו ות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szögletesre levág, derékszögben lemunkál (to square off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

saldare (balance, discharge, join, knit, link, link up with, pay, pay off, reckon up, settle, solder, Square, strike, strike a balance, weld, welding), affrontare (affront, brave, breast, come to blows, confront, dare, deal with, encounter, face, face up to, head, meet, stand up to, tackle). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cormal (adapt, balance, counterbalance, equalization, equate, equilibrate, even). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aresquay upay

   

Portuguese

  

preparar (arrange, coach, confection, do, do up, draw up, finish, fix up, frame, groom, lay, make, mobilize, prepare, process, ready, study, temper, to prepare, train), lavar (bath, buddle, do up, lave, mop, wash), arranjar (accomodate, achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, do up, dress, fare, figure out, filibeg, find, fix, fix up, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, remake, schedule, settle, size, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

încheia o socotealã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

спрямлять, приводить в порядок (adjust, arrange, brush up, do up, fix, order, put in order, put into shape, rearrange, set in order, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim), изготавливаться к бою. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

srediti račun. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

saldar cuentas (settle up), tener en cuenta (allow for, count, heed, keep a tally of, make allowances for, take into account, think). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

göra sig redo att slåss. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kavga vaziyeti almak (square off, square up to), göğüs germek (brave, breast, face, resist, square up to, stand, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to, survive). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

установлювати під прямим кутом, рішуче братися, приготуватися до бою. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Square Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-p-q-r-s-u-u"

-2 letters: aureus, pareus, pauser, pursue, square, uraeus.

-3 letters: apers, apres, asper, aures, pares, pareu, parse, pause, pears, prase, praus, presa, purse, quare, rapes, reaps, spare, spear, sprue, super, supra, urase, ureas, ursae, usque, usurp.

-4 letters: aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, eras, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, prau, pure, purs, rape, raps, rase, rasp.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-p-q-r-s-u-u"
 

+2 letters: quadrupeds, quadruples.

 

+3 letters: quadruplets, quadrupoles.

 

+4 letters: superquality.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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