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Definition: Square |
SquareAdjective1. Having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner". 2. (informal) leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square". 3. Characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing". 4. Without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears". 5. (slang) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned. Adverb1. In a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me". 2. With honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square". 3. In a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square". 4. Firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy". Noun1. (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". 2. The product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance". 3. An open area at the meeting of two or more streets. 4. Someone who doesn't understand what is going on. 5. (informal) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views. 6. Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares". 7. 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". Verb1. Raise to the second power. 2. Make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file". 3. Cause to match, as of ideas or acts. 4. Position so as to be square: "He squared his shoulders". 5. Be compatible with; "one idea squares with another". 6. Pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him". 7. Turn the paddle; in canoeing. 8. Turn the oar, while rowing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "square" was first used: sometime around 1250. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Square |
Food & Agriculture | Any piece of timber that is square-cut and of equal dimensions on all 4 sides, i. e. having 4 faces of equal size. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | 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. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Square To put oneself in the attitude of boxing, to quarrel. (Welsh, cwer' - i.e. cweryl, cwerylu, to quarrel.) "Are you such fools To square for this?" Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, ii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | The square end of a machine part, especially of one intended to be gripped and turned; e. g. a driving square for tools. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A term used in the slate industry with reference to roofing slate. A square is a sufficient number of any size to lay 100 ft2 (9.29 m 2 ) of roof, allowing the standard 3-in (7.62-cm) lap. The estimated weight of a square of 1/4-in (6.4-mm) slate is 1,000 lb (454kg). (references) |
Religion & Philosophy | Planets 90 degrees apart. Bad. Major aspect. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SQUARE. Honest, not roguish. A square cove, i.e. a man who does not steal, or get his living by dishonest means. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Round, Square. When a thing is round or square it cannot be rounder or squarer. These adjectives do not admit of comparative and superlative forms. But we may say more nearly round or less nearly square. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In plane geometry, a square is a polygon with four equal sides and equal angles. Those angles are then necessarily right angles. Squares are regular quadrilaterals.
The coordinates for the vertices of a square centered at the origin and with side length 2 are (±1, ±1), while the interior of the same consists of all points (x0, x1) with -1 < xi < 1.
See also:
In algebra, the square of x is written x2 and is defined as the product of x with itself: x × x. If x is a positive real number, the value of x2 is equal to the area of a (geometric) square of edge length x. If y = x2 and x≥0, then x is the square root of y.
- unit square
A positive integer that is the square of some other integer is known as a square number, or more simply a square.
In urban planning, a square is a planned open area in a city, usually or originally square in shape. See Red Square, Tiananmen Square, Times Square and Trafalgar Square for examples. Some are permanently or on certain days of the week used for an open market.
In carpentry, a square is a guide for establishing right angles (ninety-degree angles), usually made of metal and in the shape of a right triangle.
In the geometry narrative Flatland, A Square is the name of the main narrator of the story.
In video games, Square is short for Squaresoft.
In the parlance of jazz, a square was a person who failed to appreciate the medium, i.e. one who was out of date or out of touch. The term has persisted and permeated into mainstream cultures, as exemplified in Elvis Costello's hit Hip to be square, which, in ultimate self-reference, was used by Sesame Street to illustrate the geometrical meaning of "square".
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In mathematics, a square number, sometimes also called a perfect square, is a positive integer that can be written as the square of some other integer. So for example, 9 is a square number since it can be written as 3×3. By convention, the first square number is 1. The number m is a square number if and only if one can arrange m points in a square:
1:
+ x4:
x + x x + + x x9:
x x + x x x x x + x x x + + + x x x16:
x x x + x x x x x x x + x x x x x x x + x x x x + + + + x x x x25:
x x x x + x x x x x x x x x + x x x x x x x x x + x x x x x x x x x + x x x x x + + + + + x x x x xThe formula for the nth square number is n2. This is also equal to the sum of the first n odd numbers, as can be seen in the above pictures, where a square results from the previous one by adding an odd number of points (marked as '+'). So for example, 52 = 25 = 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9.
A square number is also the sum of two consecutive triangular numbers.
Lagrange's four-square theorem states that any positive integer can be written as the sum of at most 4 perfect squares. 3 squares are not sufficient for numbers of the form 4k(8l + 7). This is generalized by Waring's problem.
A positive integer that has no perfect square divisors except 1 is called square-free.
See also:
- Triangular number
- Polygonal number
- Euler's four-square identity
- Automorphic number
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A square wave is a kind of basic waveform. Ideally a square wave has instantaneous alternation between a maximum and a minimum (which can be zero or negative) amplitude level.
A bandlimited square wave pictured in the time domain (top) and frequency domain (bottom). The fundamental is at 220 Hz (A2).
Origins and uses
Square waves are universally encountered in digital switching circuits.In musical terms, it is often described as sounding hollow, and is therefore used as the basis for wind instrument sounds created using subtractive synthesis.
Examining the square wave
In contrast to the sawtooth wave, which contains all integer harmonics, the square wave contains only odd integer harmonics.Using Fourier series we can write an ideal square wave as an infinite series of the form
A curiosity of the convergence of the Fourier series representation of the square wave is the Gibbs phenomenon. Ringing artifacts in non-ideal square waves can be shown to be related to this phenomenon. Gibbs phenomenon can be prevented by the use of σ-approximation, which uses the Lanczos sigma factors to help the sequence converge more smoothly.
An ideal square wave requires that the signal changes from the maximum to the minimum state cleanly and instantaneously. This is impossible to achieve in real-world systems, as it would require infinite bandwidth.
Real-world square-waves have only finite bandwidth, and often exhibit ringing effects similar to those of the Gibbs phenomenon, or ripple effects similar to those of the σ-approximation.
For a reasonable approximation to the square-wave shape, at least the fundamental and third harmonic need to be present, with the fifth harmonic being desirable. These bandwidth requirements are important in digital electronics, where finite-bandwidth analog approximations to square-wave-like waveforms are used. (The ringing transients are an important electronic consideration here, as they may go beyond the electrical rating limits of a circuit).
The ratio of the high to low periods of a square wave are called the duty cycle. A true square wave has a 50% duty cycle - equal high and low periods. The average level of a square wave is also given by the duty cycle, so by varying the on to off periods, it is possible to represent any value between the two limiting levels. This is the basis of pulse width modulation.
See also
- Sine wave
- Triangle wave
- Sawtooth wave
- Waves
- Sound
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Squaresoft (often just called Square) is a Japanese video game company that was created in 1983 as a part of a software development firm called Denyuusha.
In 1985, Squaresoft began making games for the Nintendo Famicom (called the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe). Their early games were not very successful, and by 1987 the company was facing the possibility of going out of business. However, that same year, Squaresoft employee Hironobu Sakaguchi was given a chance to make a game that would either make or break the company. He named his creation Final Fantasy, a console role-playing game that revolved around four sacred crystals, one for each of the four elements in the fantasy world. Final Fantasy did much better than Sakaguchi had ever hoped, in both Japan and the U.S; the game was followed by a sequel in 1988, marketed exclusively in Japan until Final Fantasy Origins. Squaresoft has made nine other Final Fantasy games since, and has become a defining force in the role-playing genre.
Square has also made other games such as Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy Tactics, Threads of Fate (a.k.a. DewPrism), Vagrant Story, and Kingdom Hearts (with Disney Interactive). The company's Square Pictures division also made a CGI movie based on Final Fantasy called Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within in 2001.
Square agreed to merge with Enix (another Japanese company best known for its popular Dragon Quest series) in 2002 so as to curb development costs and become more competitive. In April of 2003 the merger was completed, forming the new company, Square Enix. =Softography=
- NES
- 1986: King's Knight
- 1987: 3-D WorldRunner, Rad Racer
- 1989: Final Fantasy
- 1989: Final Fantasy II (Japan only for the NES, fan-translated in 1998; Playstation remake released in the United States under Final Fantasy Origins)
- 1990: Final Fantasy III (Japan only, but fan-translated in 1999), Rad Racer 2
- Super NES
- 1991: Final Fantasy IV, Romancing SaGa (Japan only)
- 1992: Final Fantasy V (JAP only for the Super NES, but fan-translated in 1998; released in the United States on the Sony Playstation under Final Fantasy Anthology), Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
- 1993: Secret Of Mana, Romancing SaGa 2 (Japan only)
- 1994: Final Fantasy VI, Live A Live (Japan only, but fan-translated in 2001)
- 1995: Chrono Trigger, Secret Of Evermore, Seiken Densetsu III (Japan only, but fan-translated in 2000), Romancing SaGa 3 (Japan only), Front Mission (Japan only, but fan-translated in 2001)
- 1996: Bahamut Lagoon (Japan only, but fan-translated in 2002), Rudra no Hihou (Japan only, fan-translated in 2003), Super Mario RPG, Treasure Hunter G (Japan only, fan-translated in 2003)
- 1998: Radical Dreamers (Japan only, fan-translated in 2003)
- Playstation
- 1996: Tobal No. 1
- 1997: Bushido Blade, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics,
- 1998: Brave Fencer Musashi, Bushido Blade 2, Einhander, Final Fantasy VIII, Parasite Eve, Saga Frontier, Xenogears
- 1999: Chocobo Racing, Chocobo's Dungeon 2, Final Fantasy Anthology,
- 2000: Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy IX, Front Mission 3, Legend of Mana, Parasite Eve II, Saga Frontier 2, Threads of Fate, Vagrant Story
- 2001: Final Fantasy Chronicles
- 2003: Final Fantasy Origins
- Playstation 2
- 2000: The Bouncer
- 2001: All-Star Pro Wrestling II, Final Fantasy X
- 2002: Kingdom Hearts, World Fantasista
- 2002: Unlimited SaGa
- Game Boy
- 1989: Final Fantasy Legend
- 1991: Final Fantasy Adventure, Final Fantasy Legend II
- 1992: Final Fantasy Legend III
- Game Boy Advance
- 2003: Chocoboland, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- PC
- 1998: Final Fantasy VII
- 1999: Final Fantasy VIII
External links
- Squaresoft official homepage
- The History of Square
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Squaresoft."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| sq | English | Square | Mathematics, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SquareSynonyms: square(a) (adj), square(p) (adj), straight (adj), straightforward (adj), squarely (adv), foursquare (n), lame (n), public square (n), second power (n), square toes (n), feather (v), square up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: iron-on (mechanical engineering). |
| Antonym: round (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Render accordant; Adjective: fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust; (render, equal); dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize,. reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square. |
Angularity | Triangle, trigon, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon. |
Fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate, multangular, oxygonal; triangular, trigonal, trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal; Noun: cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal. | |
Compensation | Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone). |
Contention | Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel). |
Four | Verb: reduce to a square, square. |
Noun: quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quarter. | |
Adjective: four; quaternary, quaternal; quadratic; quartile; tetract, tetractic, tetractinal; tetrad, tetragonal; square, quadrate. | |
Place | Noun: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; (corner); hole; pigeonhole; (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality; (situation). |
Probity | Adjective: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious; virtuous; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white. |
Verticality | Elevation, erection; square, plumb line, plummet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, we sat together at Bell Square. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) I always dreamed of going to Madison Square Gardens, see the Knicks play (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) In two minutes primary charges will blow base charges and a few square blocks will be reduced to smoldering rubble (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) The theatuh, the theatuh -- what book of rules says the theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Detective dress kinda square. If you look like a detective people are gonna think you're packing something (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox) | |
Lyrics | Then she looked me right square in the eye (What Would You Do; performing artist: City High) Hit be square in the chest, wasn't wearin a vest (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) Where a square should be (Hole Hearted; performing artist: Extreme) Had cleared the square (Rock the Casbah; performing artist: The Clash) So come up close and don't be square (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cricket in Times Square (1973) Café du square (1969) King Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table (1966) All Square (1966) Butternut Square (1964) | |
Song Titles | Hip To Be Square (performing artist: Huey Lewis & The News) Washington Square (Instrumental) (performing artist: The Village Stompers) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (2) color slides show a single, square cut brownie. (1) plain chocolate, (1) with nuts. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | 2 square black marble cutting boards (1 large, 1 small) on a grey marble table top. The small board has a peapod split open; the large board is decorated with swipes of light blue paint and has tomatoes, carrots, squash, beans and spinach. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Building 11, Corporate Square, CDC. March 1999. Credit: CDC. |  | This composite image shows the location of a one-light-year square region in the Orion Nebula ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Monterey Bay Case Study - Photo #9 3-D image of 9,000 square nautical miles Shows Monterey Canyon, continental slope, Pioneer and Guide Seamounts, etc. This image was constructed from over 5,000,000 soundings. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Sigsbee Escarpment and bizarre topography of Texas-Louisiana Slope Image shows approximately 9,000 square nautical miles. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | San Francisco in April 1850, showing Clay Street, opposite Portsmouth Square. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 270. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | East side of Portsmouth Square, spring of 1850. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 358. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The Wizard speaking in Cathedral Square in Christchurch New Zealand. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Marking off the planting site, the large square is a quadrant to establish where the plantings should go. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Hosok square Budapest/Hungary" by Sandor Fegyverneky Commentary: "A perfect aerial shot of the most famous square in Budapest." | "Times square station" by Sabine Grund Commentary: "Sign in times square station, nyc." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | A very stiff and square style of playing in which the emphasis is on the beat. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Mencius | The compass and square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages, the human relations are perfectly exhibited. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The neighbourhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Silently the Professor drew from his pocket a square gold watch, with six or eight hands, and held it out for my inspection |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A breath of air, coming through the broken square, helped to dissipate the charcoal odour and to conceal the furnace |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was a mean thing to do, to shoulder him into the square ditch, they were saying |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The square closes up and the dancing starts, feet on the bare ground, beating dull, strike with your heels |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The most common form of LSD is called "blotter acid" - sheets of paper soaked in LSD and perforated into 1/4-inch square, individual dosage units. (references) | |
Business | The least cost steel-framed house is $400 per square meter. (references) | |
The country’s annual roof insulation market alone is 50 million square meters. (references) | ||
At least eight protesters were picked up by police in Tiananmen Square during the 15th Party Congress. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | In late May, approximately 1,500 persons marched through central Hong Kong to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (references) |
China | In the wake of a series of large protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the Government stepped up the use of the reeducation-through-labor system to sentence practitioners administratively to up to 3 years in detention. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | Flag: Square, white cross on red field. (references) |
Human Rights | Madagascar | Prison cells average less than 1 square yard of space per inmate. (references) |
Ethiopia | Prisoners often are allocated fewer than 21.5 square feet of sleeping space in a room that may contain up to 200 persons. (references) | |
Cameroon | Authorities confirmed to Rodley that 1 cell measuring 6 square meters housed 16 persons; 1 prisoner stated that the cell sometimes held up to 23 persons. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Mexico | Their trip, which included a 2-day congress of indigenous people culminated in a meeting in the main square of Mexico City with some 100,000 supporters in attendance. (references) |
Canada | The treaty gave the Nisga'a control over 765 square miles of tribal lands, a cash settlement, fishing and timber-cutting rights, and certain rights of self-government. (references) | |
Botswana | The formation of the 20,000 square mile Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) by the colonial government in 1961 on traditional Basarwa lands set the stage for conflict between the Basarwa's pursuit of their traditional way of life and wildlife conservation. (references) | |
Minorities | Georgia | In December 2000, Basilists encircled a 5,000 square meter plot of land where a local Pentecostal congregation planned to build a multi-purpose building. (references) |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The tax rises to $100,000 for casinos of 5,000-10,000 square feet. (references) |
China | According to Amnesty International (AI) 211 persons remain in prison for their activities during the June 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Others vary in size from a simple warehouse to several square kilometers. (references) |
Kuwait | The Kuwait Free Trade Zone at Shuwaikh Port opened in 1999 and covers 1.7 million square meters. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Chittagong port has 116,375 square meters of covered warehouse space, with a capacity to hold 50,000 metric tons. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Rents are generally between USD 7 and 25 per square foot per month. (references) |
Egypt | A new line now runs from Tahrir Square passing by the Cairo Opera House and ending at Cairo University in Giza. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Typical rental costs in a modern commercial center are approximately $220 per square meter, inclusive of maintenance and utility charges. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Croatia | During the year, authorities permitted labor demonstrations both in Zagreb's main square and in front of the Parliament. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day -- an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Julie Nixon Eisenhower | I doubt it. I don't think so. I don't think so. But they certainly were happy to have the exhibit, which was wonderful. In Tiananmen Square, right next to Mao's tomb. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed, and the tendency of Southern legislation today is toward the enactment of electoral qualifications which shall square with that amendment. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. |
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| "Square" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 34.53% of the time. "Square" is used about 5,262 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 34.53% | 1,817 | 4,663 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.13% | 1,796 | 4,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.8% | 1,411 | 5,700 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.83% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.53% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,262 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "square" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Square | Last name | 1,000 | 11,624 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "square". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Reba | N/A | Biblical | A square |
| Rechab | N/A | Biblical | Square |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Israel | Blue Square - Israel Limited | Japan | Square Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "square": a square deal ♦ a square meal ♦ a square peg in a round hole ♦ across the square ♦ act on the square ♦ barrack square ♦ be back to square one ♦ be square with ♦ be square with smb. ♦ beacon Square ♦ bevel square ♦ by the square ♦ Caliper square ♦ candela per square meter ♦ candela per square metre ♦ carpenter's square ♦ center square ♦ central Square ♦ chi square distribution ♦ circular square ♦ countersunk square neck bolt for woodwork ♦ country square ♦ death Square ♦ driving square ♦ driving square for tools ♦ Epstein square ♦ Error of the mean square ♦ Face of a square ♦ Fair and square ♦ form into a square ♦ Frankfort Square ♦ Franklin Square ♦ Geometric square ♦ Geometrical square ♦ get a matter square ♦ get square ♦ get square with ♦ get things square ♦ give smb. a square deal ♦ he is a square peg in a round hole ♦ hit smb. square on the nose ♦ hollow square ♦ in the square ♦ Inner square ♦ into square ♦ Kennett Square ♦ knight of the square flag ♦ large square ♦ Latin square ♦ Least square ♦ lumen per square meter ♦ lumen per square metre ♦ Madison Square Garden network ♦ magic square ♦ magic square design ♦ main square ♦ make accounts square ♦ market square ♦ mean square deviation ♦ mesh size of a square meshed pan or window ♦ Miter square ♦ New Square ♦ Newtown Square ♦ of a square shape ♦ on the square ♦ on the square with ♦ optical square ♦ out of square ♦ perfect square ♦ play square ♦ pounds per square inch ♦ public square ♦ put a square peg into a round hole ♦ quarter square ♦ red square ♦ reduce to a square ♦ Rich Square ♦ root mean square ♦ root mean square value ♦ Sarasota Square ♦ seed sown in square ♦ seed sown in square groups ♦ set square ♦ set two beams square ♦ small square ♦ solid square ♦ square a number ♦ square a theory to fit the facts ♦ square accounts ♦ square accounts with ♦ square accounts with smb. ♦ square an account ♦ square and rabbet ♦ square away ♦ square block ♦ square bracket ♦ square brackets ♦ square built ♦ square centimeter ♦ square centimetre ♦ square chin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "square": square-backed, square-balled, square-based, square-bashed, square-bashing, square-bodied, square-boned, square-built, square-by-square, square-chinned, square-cut, square-dance, square-dance music, square-dancing, square-drives, square-driving, square-drove, square-edged, square-ended, square-eyed, square-faced, square-flanked, square-foot, square-go, square-headed, square-headed boyfriend, square-headed girlfriend, square-jawed, square-jointed, square-lattice, Square-law, square-leaded, square-leg, square-lipped, square-low detection, square-meshed, square-metre, square-mile, square-neck, square-necked, square-necks, square-on, square-palmed, square-pass, square-plan, square-plate, square-pyramidal, square-rigged, square-rigger, square-riggers, square-root, square-rooting, square-sawn, square-section, square-sectioned, square-set, square-shaped, square-shouldered, square-sided, square-skulled, square-slabbed, square-tailed, square-tails, square-tipped, square-toed, Square-toes, square-topped, square-to-square, square-towered, square-up, square-wall, square-wave, square-wave, square-well. | |
Ending with "square": all-square, circle-in-the-square, cross-in-square, mid-square, set-square, three-mile-square. | |
Containing "square": Chi-Square Distribution, eight-square-kilometre, eight-square-mile, four-square-to-the-wind, hundred-square-foot, Mean-square error, one-square-kilometre, three-square-mile, two-hundred-square-mile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
madison square garden | 2,074 | square one mall | 169 |
sponge bob square pants | 1,792 | square dancing | 168 |
square d | 1,029 | newtown square pa | 162 |
breakers d i line square | 802 | bellevue square | 162 |
times square | 675 | square d breakers | 160 |
square dance | 655 | emerald square mall | 159 |
spongebob square pants | 434 | jack london square | 157 |
square | 404 | square peg | 152 |
hollywood square | 308 | chi square | 150 |
sponge bob square pants picture | 286 | maryland square | 146 |
square root | 268 | playhouse square | 145 |
tiananmen square | 254 | station square | 139 |
kennett square pa | 253 | magic square | 136 |
square one | 247 | acre foot in square | 133 |
square foot | 226 | trafalgar square | 128 |
franklin square ny | 224 | acre foot square | 124 |
square time | 205 | square baler | 123 |
builder square | 197 | union square cafe | 116 |
baker square | 181 | in square thursday | 116 |
enix square | 177 | union square | 114 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "square"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | reghoekig (right-angle). (various references) | |
Albanian | Skuadër (crew, gang, navy, party, section, squad, team), Sinqerisht (frankly, genuinely, openly, sincerely, truly), Shlyej (clear, discharge, expiate, forgive, liquidate, make good, make up, purge, redeem, satisfy, settle, work off), Shesh (circus, course, court, esplanade, field, ground, place, platform, table), Përputhem (add up, agree, coincide, conform, fit, tally), Fuqi I Dytë, I Drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, impartial, just, kosher, lank, regular, right, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white), I Jap Formë Katrore, I Sinqertë (candid, devout, earnest, explicit, Frank, free, free-hearted, free-spoken, genuine, honest, ingenuous, onefold, open, outgiving, outspoken, plain spoken, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, transparent, true, true-hearted, truthful, unaffected, unreserved, whole-souled), Katror (check, checker, Chequer, chequered, foursquare, quadrate, quadratic), Kuadrat (Chequer, inset, quad), Kuti (box, canister, case, casket, container, crate, receptacle, sandbank, thriftbox, tray), Lagje (neighbor, neighborhood, neighbour, neighbourhood, quarter, section, Vicinage, ward), Drejt (aright, direct, directly, endlong, erect, fair, flat, orderly, plump, right, rightly, smack, straight, to, toward, towards), Ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), Vë Në Skuadër, Pajtoj (attune, bring together, engage, moderate, propitiate, reconcile), Pres Në Kënd Të Drejtë (square up), Qoshelie, Vë Në Rregull (arrange, fix up, methodize, place, sort out), Ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up). (various references) | |
Arabic | التربيع, بأمانة (at close quarters, closely, faithfully, sincerely), عريض جدا, ضبط (accuracy, adjust, check, control, dam, detect, exactitude, frame, govern, inspect, measure, monitor, police, preciseness, precision, punctuality, regularize, regulate, regulation, rightness, school, set, setting, strictness, test, tune, tuning), صفى حسابه, صراحة (candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness, roundness, straightforwardness, straightness), جانبي (lateral, profiling, side, sidelong, sidy), على زاوية قائمة, الكوس زاوية النجار, زاوية قائمة, إنسجم (blend, chime, concord, consort, correspond, get along with, harmonize, mesh, tone), رشا (bribe, buy, corrupt, grease the palm, oil, suborn, tamper), ربع (quarter), بقوة (hardly, heatedly, highly, mightily, narrowly, pithily, robustly, strongly, substantially), باتا, بات (bed, categorical, decisive, home, roost, unqualified), امين (secretary), وجها لوجه (face to face, vis a vis), مطعم الضباط, مربع قائم الزاوية, مربع تقريبا, مربع (quadrate), قسم الي مربعات, قطعة شبه مكعبة, عادل نتيجة المباراة, وقف وجها لوجه, ميدان (arena, domain, field, line, place, province, sphere), وازن (balance, balancing, collate, compare, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equate, equilibrate, equipoise, even, offset, poise, set off, stabilize, strike a balance), واجه (be faced with, be facing, brave, confront, cope, encounter, experience, face, head, manage, meet, pull faces, shoulder, stand up, stand up to), تربيعى, سوي (normal, regular, right, smooth, straight), ساحة (field, piazza, site, yard), سدد حسابا (settle, square up), وقف منتصبا (stand at attention, stand erect, stand up). (various references) | |
Asturian | cuadráu. (various references) | |
Basque | lauki. (various references) | |
Bavarian | blooz (plaza, public square). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Точен, Квадратен, Квадрат На число, Квадрат, Консервативен човек, Каре, Недвусмислен, Закостенял човек, На Квадрат, Сверявам С Последни Данни, Уреден, Квадратно Кърпа, Линеал, Давам Рушвет, Връщам Си, Балансирам, Изравнявам Резултат, Изравнен, Измервам Квадратурата На, Изправям, перпендикулярен (normal, perpendicular), Уреждам Си Сметките, Правилен, честно (above board, fair, fair and square, fairly, faithfully, honestly, in good faith, on the level, squarely, uprightly), честен (above board, clean-fingered, downright, fair, fair dealing, foursquare, honest, honorable, honourable, loyal, right, righteous, single, sportsmanlike, straight, straightforward, truthful, upstanding, veracious, white, worthy), Открито, Отмъщавам Си, Ограждам С Квадрат, Оправям, Прям (Frank), Правя Правоъгълен, Правя Квадратен, Квадратна Кърпа, Право, Квадратно Шалче, Придавам Квадратна Форма На, Поставям Под Прав Ъгъл, Повдигам На Квадрат, Подравнявам, Под Прав Ъгъл, Перпендикулярно, Площаден, Площад (Piazza, Plaza), ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), Правоъгълен. (various references) | |
Catalan | plaça (plaza, public square). (various references) | |
Cebuano | iskinado. (various references) | |
Chamorro | kuadráo. (various references) | |
Chinese | 正方形 . (various references) | |
Cornish | pedrak. (various references) | |
Czech | námìstí (Plaza). (various references) | |
Danish | plads (location, place, place to sit, plaza, public square, seat, spot), firkant (quadrangle, quadrilateral), kvadrat, firkantet. (various references) | |
Dutch | vierkant, plein (plaza, public square), kwadraat (power of two). (various references) | |
Esperanto | placo (plaza, public square), orta (right-angle), kvadrato, kvadrata. (various references) | |
Faeroese | torg (plaza, public square), fjørhyrningur. (various references) | |
Farsi | چارگوش , بتوان دوم بردن , راست حسینی , جذر, جوردراوردن , عادلانه , توان دوم , حسابی (Arithmetic, Smackdab), برابر (Abreast, Breast, Equal, Equivalent, Plain, Tantamount), وفق دادن (Accord, Adapt, Adjust, Assimilate, Attune, Conform, Jump, Reconcile, Suit, Tune), میدان (Aim, Ground, Place, Plaza, Purview, Ring, Scope), چهارگوش کردن , مربع (Quadrangle, Quadrangular), مربع کردن , مجذور, مجذورکردن , منظم (Ordered, Orderly, Regular), منصف (Author, Just, Unprejudiced), واریزکردن (Even, Settle). (various references) | |
Finnish | tori (market-place, plaza, public square), neliö (quad), aukio (open place). (various references) | |
French | Place (public square), Carré (squarish), Square, rond-point (public square). (various references) | |
Frisian | kwadraat, fjouwerkant, fjouwekant. (various references) | |
German | Quadrat (quad, quadrat), Platz (accommodation, center, centre, cirrus, course, court, field, green, links, location, pew, Piazza, pitch, place, plaza, position, public square, room, seat, site, space, spot, stand, station, town, yard), viereckig (four-side, foursquare, quadrangular, quadrilateral), Viereck (four-sided figure, quad, quadrangle, quadrilateral), Winkelmaß (goniometer, level, Norma), Winkel (aangles, angle, angles, bracket, chevron, corner, nook, nooks, place, recess, stripe), vierschrötig (burly, square built), rechtwinklig (orthographical, right angled, right-angle, right-angled), Quadrieren, quadratisch (quadrate, quadratic, quadratically), Karree (block, rectangle, rhombus), Karo (check, diamond, lozenge). (various references) | |
Greek | πλατεία (place), τετράγωνο (quadrangle, quadrate, quod, tetragon). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ַזקה ניה, ״בועי, ״חבה, ״ובע, כיכר, ִגון, ֱהגינות, ״בוע, ֶויתון, ־וסדר, ּרבע, ּהסדיר, ּאזן, ־רובע, ־אוזן, ־שבצת (Chequer), ֻכר (Plaza). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Négyzetes (quadratic, squaring, tetragonal), Négyzet (em, quadrant, quadrat), Derékszögben (at right angles, on the square, squarely). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fermetri (square metre). (various references) | |
Indonesian | persegi, kuadrat (quadratic), bujur sangkar, alun-alun (plaza, town square). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kippaariktuq. (various references) | |
Italian | Quadrato (quadrate, ring), Piazza (market, Piazza, place, plaza, public square), Quadro (description, management, outline, painting, panel, picture, scene, sight, table, tableau), Squadra (crew, gang, party, side, squad, team), Elevare Al Quadrato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 平方 , スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid), 四角 , 四角い , 四角四面 (formal), 四角形 (quadrangle, quadrilateral), 升形 , 堅人 (trustworthy person), まっ四角 , 真四角 , 平方形 , 正方 , 正方形 , 方形 , 枡形 , 枡目 (measure), 升目 (box, measure). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まっしかく, へいほうけい, スクウェア , スクエア , スクェア , かたじん (trustworthy person), せいほう (formula, manufacturing method, recipe, western direction), へいほう (art of war, me, mine, strategy, tactics, the advance of an army, the point of a sword), ほうけい (phimosis), しかくしめん (formal), ましかく, ますめ (box, measure), ますがた, しかく (assassin, blind spot, capabilities, dead space, qualifications, requirements, sense of sight, vision, visual angle), しかっけい (quadrangle, quadrilateral), しかくけい (quadrangle, quadrilateral), しかくい, せいほうけい. (various references) | |
Korean | 사각. (various references) | |
Macedonian | kvadraten. (various references) | |
Manx | kerrinagh (quadratic, square-built), kerrin (canton, pane), kernaghey (quadrate, quadrature, squaring), faaie (court, flat field, green, lawn, paddock). (various references) | |
Norwegian | plass (ground, location, place, plaza, public square, spot). (various references) | |
Occitan | cairat. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kuadrat, kuadrá, firkant. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | square. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aresquay.(various references) | |
Polish | plac (plaza, public square). (various references) | |
Portuguese | quadrado (four-square, pane, quadrate, quadratic, super), praça (cabrank, cabs, cabstand, circus, pawn, piazza, playground, plaza, praam, pram, public square, soldier), largo (ample, bagging, baggy, broad, flyaway, large, largo, plaza, public square, roomy, slip-on, wide), adro (churchyard, forecourt, plaza, public square). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | rossio (Rossio Square). (various references) | |
Provencal | carrat. (various references) | |
Quechua | plasaneqpi (near the town square), plasaman (to the town square). (various references) | |
Romanian | Substanţial (cogent, rich, solid, substantial, substantially, well grounded), Solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, massy, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), Scuar, Bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off), Deschis (above board, artless, avowedly, bald, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, broad, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, light, naked, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, pale, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved), Cvartal (block), Cumpãra (bribe, buy, buy off, purchase, reserve), Corespunde (answer, check, fulfil, homologize, meet, tally), Corect (accurate, aright, correct, correctly, exact, fair, faultless, flawless, honest, just, justly, mensurable, perfect, precise, right, rightful, rightly, upright), Colţar (boss, corner, crampon, cupboard, quoin, triangle), Cinstit (above board, candid, chaste, clean-fingered, correctly, fair, foursquare, gentlemanlike, guileless, honest, honestly, honest-minded, honorable, honourable, mensurable, on the level, on the up and up, open, reliable, reputable, respectable, righteous, scrupulous, simple, sincere, sincerely, sporting, sportsmanlike, straightforward, true, trustful, truthful, unfeigned, upright, venerable, virtuous), Categoric (absolute, absolutely, beyond peradventure, categorical, categorically, clear, curt, decided, decisive, definite, definitely, dogmatic, downright, emphatic, explicit, explicitly, flat, flatly, formal, much, on the dead, peremptorily, peremptory, plump, positive, positively, simply, stiff, unanswerable, unbending, unqualified), Drept (as, attribution, claim, correct, Dexter, direct, directly, due, end on, endways, equitable, erect, even, evenly, exactly, fair, fairly, for, forthright, honest, just, justice, justly, kind, law, legitimate, patent, permission, plain, point blank, precisely, privilege, real, reasonable, right, right foot, right leg, righteous, stand, stand up, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, unprejudiced, upright), Bondoc (dumpling, dumpy, runt, squab, stocky, stumpy), Fi În Concordanţã Cu, Îndrepta, Îndoi, În Unghi Drept, În Ordine, Ajusta (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, dovetail, fit, modulate, shape, tally, true up), Adevãrat (actual, correct, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, proper, quite right, real, really and truly, regular, sheer, sooth, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), Careu (mess), Ochi De Geam (a pane of glass, pane, panel), Ridica La Pãtrat, Pune De Acord (accord, agree, attune, harmonize), Pune În Ordine, Potrivi (accommodate, accord, adapt, adjust, arrange, correct, dovetail, fit, fit in, match, put, reconcile, rectify, register, regulate, reset, shape, smooth, trim, trim in), piaţå (plaza, public square), Piaţã Publicã, Piaţã (circus, market, mart, Piazza), Echer, Onest (candid, foursquare, honest, honorable, honourable, mensurable, upright), Achita (acquit, clear, defray, discharge, exonerate from, liquidate, pay, pay down, pay off, quit, receipt, remit, satisfy, trace), Netezi (arrange, dress, edge, flatten, grade, iron, plane, satinize, sleek, smooth, smooth down, stroke, tabulate, trim), Net (avowedly, clear, clear-cut, decided, decidedly, flat, net, plump), Lat (broad, flat, flatly, prone, wide), Just (accurate, correct, equitable, even, exact, fair, fairly, just, just so, justly, reasonable, right, righteous, rightful, suitable, that's the thing, truly, uprightly), Grup De Case, Tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, stop, strike out, switch off), Egal (coequal, commensurate, coordinate, equal, equally, even, even tempered, evenly, fellow, identic, identical, level, match, peer, proportionate, regular, smooth, unchangeable, uniform), Pãtrat (foursquare, quadrate, regular tetragon, tetragon). (various references) | |
Russian | Квартал, Согласовывать, Сквер, Сходиться, Возводить В Квадрат, квадрат квадратный, Кантовать, Каре, Квадрат, Сбалансировать, Квадратный, честно (above board, aboveboard, above-board, fairly, honestly, in good faith, on the level, uprightly), Площадь (Piazza, Plaza), Подкупать, Подрезать Торец, Придавать Форму Квадрата, Правильный, Прямоугольный, Обтесывать (Spall), четырехугольник (quadrangle, quadrilateral, tetragon), Квадрат числа. (various references) | |
Samoan | sikuea. (various references) | |
Scottish | earasaid (a square of tartan worn over the shoulders by females and fastened by a brooch). (various references) | |
Sepedi | sekwere. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skver, pošteno (fair, fairly, honestly, straight), biti u skladu, ispravno (correctly, lawfully, order: in order, upright, uprightly), kruta osoba, kvadrat (quadrate), kvadratni (quadrate), kvit (quits), četvrtasta površina, pošten (bona fide, clean-handed, fair, fair dealing, honest, straight, white-handed), vezana vreća (misfit), podići na kvadrat, podmiriti, prilagoditi (adapt, assimilate, gear to, modify, pitch, suit, tailor), trg (piazza, place, plaza), uglast (angular), napraviti četvrtastim. (various references) | |
Spanish | plaza (arena, lieu, Piazza, place, plaza, pp, public square, seat), cuadrado (chequered, quadrate), escuadra (carpenter's square, pistol, squad, squadron), cuadro (bed, board, cadre, chart, delineation, diaphragm, frame, likeness, painting, parterre, patch, picture, plot, table, tableau). (various references) | |
Sranan | pren (plaza, public square), fokanti. (various references) | |
Swahili | mahali (place, plaza, public square). (various references) | |
Swedish | torg (market, market place, marketplace, market-place, plaza, public square), kvadrat (quadrat), fyrkant (quadrilateral), ruta (check, criss cross, lozenge, panel, screen). (various references) | |
Tagalog | parisukát. (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นสี่เหลี่ยม, ไม้ฉากของช่างไม้, ผลที่ได้จากกำลังสอง, สี่เหลี่ยมจัตุรัส (quad), ทำให้เป็นรูปสี่เหลี่ยม, อย่างตั้งฉาก, ตึกที่มีถนนสี่ด้าน, ลานกว้าง, ยกกำลังสอง, ปรับให้ตรง. (various references) | |
Turkish | Standart Kural, Satranç Tahtası (chessboard, draught-board), Sütun Kaidesi (Patten, plinth), Beraberliği Sağlamak (equalize), Doğru (above board, according to cocker, according to hoyle, accurate, aright, authentic, cheese, correct, direct, due, exact, exactly, fair, fair enough, faithful, for, guileless, honest, honest injun, just, on time, ortho-, orthodox, precisely, prompt, proper, punctual, quite so, right, righteous, sincere, spot-on, straight, straight as a die, straight line, the right, the thing, the truth, thro, through, thru, true, truthful, up to, upstanding), Dik Tutmak (draw up, hold straight, hold upright, poise), Dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, sheer, stand up, steep, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), Düzgün (clear-cut, Dandy, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, regular, right, shapely, shipshape, slick, smooth, Spruce, straight, trim, unruffled), Düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), Dürüst (above board, candid, christian, conscientious, dinkum, direct, downright, fair, faithful, Frank, guileless, honest, incorruptible, jannock, just, level, moral, on the square, open, plain, regular, right, righteous, right-minded, sincere, single minded, single-hearted, sporting, straight, straight as a die, straight out, straightforward, upfront, upright, upstanding, virtuous), Dörtlü (four, foursome, quad, quadr-, quadraphonic, quadripartite, quadro-, quadrophonic, quadruple, quadruplet, quart, quartet, quartette, quater-, quaternary, tetra-, tetrad), Dörtgen (quad, quadrangle, quadrilateral, tetragon), Eski Kafalı Kimse (antediluvian, back number, die hard, fogey, fogy, fossil, fuddy-duddy, old fogey, old fogy), Dördül (quadrate), Kare (Chequer, foursquare, frame), Bağdaşmak (accord, agree, comport, consort, reach an agreement, square with), Bağdaşan (compatible, consonant), Ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, fix up, gear, justify, lay on, measure, proportion, regularize, regulate, reset, scale, set, standardize, syntonize, time, tone, trim, tune), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, susceptive, theater, theatre, tract, yard), Ödemek, Dört Köşeli (four-cornered, quadrangular, quadrate), Karesini Almak, Uymak (abide by, accommodate oneself, accord, adapt, agree, answer, assort, become, chime, chime in with, coincide, comply, comply with, comport, conform, consist, consort, correlate, correspond, defer, do, do for, fall with, fit, follow, gear, go, go together, go with, harmonize, keep, keep to, match, mate, obey, observe, pertain, quadrate, respect, sort together, square with, string along with, suit, tally, tally with, tone, work in with), Uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), Uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, cook up, dream up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, romance, spin, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), Tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), Para Yedirmek (bribe, grease, grease smb.'s palm, grease the palm), meydaný'ný, Meydan (agora, arena, common, esplanade, maidan, open space, Piazza), Gönye (miter, miter joint, mitre, rule, setsquare, t square), Katı (callous, emphatic, emphatical, firm, fold, hard, hard and fast, hard boiled, hard line, insensitive, ironclad, rigid, sclerous, solid, steel, steely, stern, stiff, strict), Açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy), Karelere Bölmek (square off), Kare Yapmak, Kare Kare Yapmak (Chequer), Kare Þeklinde Þey, Kare Þeklinde, Yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, ensconce, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, station, Stow), Halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), Kesin (absolute, accurate, assertive, categorical, certain, cheese it, clean-cut, clear-cut, conclusive, decided, decisive, declared, definite, definitive, determined, dogmatic, downright, exact, express, extreme, final, firm, flat, frozen, implicit, indisputable, indubitable, irreversible, irrevocable, mathematical, ocular, outright, peremptory, point blank, pointed, precise, pronounced, rigid, rigorous, round, safe, scientific, specific, spot-on, stark, sure, sure as death, unambiguous, uncompromising, undoubted, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, utter). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kwadrat (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чотирикутний (quadrangular), чесно (above board, fair, fairly, faithfully, honestly, honorably, honourably, scrupulously, sincerely, straight, uprightly), Підносити До Квадрата, Під Прямим Кутом, Прямо, Приводити В Порядок (Marshal), Площа (Piazza, Plaza), Квадратний, Квадрат, Зрівняний, Надавати Квадратної Форми, Точний, Вирівнювати, Сквер. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vuông vắn thẳng góc với; trúng thật thà, vuông to ngang đẫy, thật thà sòng phẳng ngang hàng, thẳng thắn (downright, fair, fair-dealing, fairly, forthright, frank, free-hearted, hunky, level, plain-spoken, sporting, sporty, straight), ngăn nắp kiên quyết, ních bụng có thứ tự, lỗi thời (fossil, mouldy, out of date, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date), không úp mở thẳng thắn, dứt khoát (blankly, clear-cut, decisive, distinct, final, flatly, outright, specific, squarely). (various references) | |
Welsh | sgwar (plaza, public square). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | angularem, angulari, angularibus, ex-, q, quadratum, quadratus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | esquire. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | plaza. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 22, Verse 55 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ayantwn de pur en mesw thV aulhV kai sugkaqisantwn autwn ekaqhto o petroV en mesw autwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Accenso autem igni in medio atrio et circumsedentibus illis erat Petrus in medio eorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And petrus wæs mid him onmiddan þam cafertune: þar hig æt þam fyre sæton; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne a fier was kyndelid in the myddil of the greet hous, and thei saten aboute, Petir was in the myddil of hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | They had kyndled a fyre in the middes of the palys and were set doune to geder Peter also sate doune amonge them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And a fire was lighted in the middle of the open square, and they were seated together, and Peter was among them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 22, Verse 55 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakahaling na silag kalayo sa taliwala sa hawanan sa tugkaran ug nanglingkod libut niini, si Pedro usab milingkod uban kanila. |
| Croatian | A posred dvorišta naložiše vatru i posjedaše uokolo. Meðu njih sjedne Petar. |
| Danish | Og de tændte en Ild midt i Gården og satte sig sammen, og Peter sad midt iblandt dem. |
| Dutch | En als zij vuur ontstoken hadden in het midden van de zaal, en zij te zamen nederzaten, zat Petrus in het midden van hen. |
| Finnish | Ja he virittivät valkean keskelle esipihaa ja asettuivat yhdessä istumaan, ja Pietari istui heidän joukkoonsa. |
| French | Ils allumèrent du feu au milieu de la cour, et ils s`assirent. Pierre s`assit parmi eux. |
| German | Da zündeten sie ein Feuer an mitten im Hof und setzten sich zusammen; und Petrus setzte sich unter sie. |
| Hungarian | És mikor tüzet gerjesztettek az udvar közepén, és õk együtt leültek, Péter is leüle õ velök. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di tengah-tengah halaman itu api unggun sudah dinyalakan dan Petrus pergi duduk bersama dengan orang-orang yang duduk di sekelilingnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila mereka itu sudah menyalakan api di tengah-tengah halaman balai dan duduk bersama-sama, lalu Petrus pun datang duduk di antara mereka itu. |
| Italian | Siccome avevano acceso un fuoco in mezzo al cortile e si erano seduti attorno, anche Pietro si sedette in mezzo a loro. |
| Maori | A, no ka oti i a ratou he kapura te tahu ki waenga marae, i a ratou e noho tahi ana, ka noho hoki a Pita i waenganui o ratou. |
| Modern Greek | Αφου δε αναψαντες πυρ εν τω μεσω της αυλης συνεκαθησαν, εκαθητο ο Πετρος εν μεσω αυτων. |
| Norwegian | De hadde tendt en ild midt i gårdsrummet og satt der sammen, og Peter satt midt iblandt dem. |
| Portuguese | E tendo eles acendido fogo no meio do pátio e havendo-se sentado à roda, sentou-se Pedro entre eles. |
| Rumanian | Au aprins un foc kn mijlocul curyii wi au wezut jos. Petru s`a awezat wi el printre ei. |
| Russian | лПЗДБ ПОЙ ТБЪЧЕМЙ ПЗПОШ УТЕДЙ ДЧПТБ Й УЕМЙ ЧНЕУФЕ, УЕМ Й рЕФТ НЕЦДХ ОЙНЙ. |
| Shuar | Tura aach jinia Ikiapárarmiayi. Túrawar anamuk pujuarmiayi. Pítrusha niijiai pujusmiayi. |
| Swahili | Moto ulikuwa umewashwa katikati ya ua, nao wakawa wameketi pamoja Petro akiwa miongoni mwao. |
| Swedish | Och de tände upp en eld mitt på gården och satte sig där tillsammans, och Petrus satte sig ibland dem. |
| Uma | Hi laintongo' berewe, rapobaa apu raponerui, pai' Petrus hilou wo'o-hawo mohura dohe-ra mpotololiki apu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "square": squared, squarely, squareness, squarenesses, squarer, squarers, squares, squarest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "square": foursquare. (additional references) | |
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"Square" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eskuara, Esquadra, esquare, esquarre, quare, saquaro, Saquier, sauoure, sequor, shquare, spuare, squabe, squade, squale, squar, squard, squarel, squarey, squariel, squarm, squarrel, squart, squate, squave, squear, squege, squere, squice, squie, squiren, squirk, squirl, squirle, squre, suare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "square" (pronounced skwe"r) |
| 3 | -w e" r | aware, beware, forswear, swear, unaware, ware, wear, where. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-q-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: aures, quare, urase, ureas, ursae. | |
-2 letters: ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, rues, ruse, sear, sera, suer, sura, sure, urea, ursa, user. | |
-3 letters: are, ars, ear, eau, era, ers, qua, ras, res, rue, sae, sau, sea, ser, sue, suq, use. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, as, er, es, re, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-q-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: barques, marques, masquer, quaeres, quakers, quartes, quasher, quatres, quavers, squared, squarer, squares. | |
+2 letters: acquires, aquifers, arquebus, baroques, claquers, equators, lacquers, marquees, marquess, marquise, masquers, parquets, quaestor, quaffers, quarrels, quarries, quarters, quartets, quartzes, quashers, queasier, queridas, racquets, squaller, squander, squarely, squarers, squarest, squasher, squatter, squawker, squeaker, squealer, vaqueros. | |
+3 letters: acquirers, aequorins, antiquers, arabesque, barbeques, claqueurs, equaliser, harquebus, marquises, paraquets, paroquets, pratiques, quadrates, quaestors, quagmires, quarriers, quarterns, quartiles, quartzose, quatorzes, quaverers, quinaries, ramequins, remarques, requitals, sequestra, squabbier, squabbler, squalider, squallers, squallier, squanders, squashers, squashier, squatters, squattier, squawkers, squeakers, squeakier, squealers. | |
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