square
part of speech
noun, adjective, verb (square, squares, squared, squaring); adverb (square — directly)
meaning for a pupil
1) A square is a flat shape with four equal sides and four right angles (square corners). A square has 4 sides. tree →
2) A square is an open place in a town with buildings around it. tree →
3) The square of a number is the number multiplied by itself: the square of 5 is 25. tree →
4) Square units measure area: square meters, square feet. tree →
5) Square means having the shape of a square or a right angle. tree →
6) To square something is to make it square or to multiply it by itself. tree →
7) «A square meal» is a good full meal; «all square» means even or equal. tree →
8) (casual, old slang) A square is a dull person who does not follow fashion: «Don't be such a square.» tree →
9) (casual) To square up is to pay what you owe: «I'll square up with you later»; «we're square» means we owe each other nothing. tree →
10) (rough) «Square up to someone» means get ready to fight them. tree →
11) (formal) «Quadrilateral with equal sides» and «raised to the second power» are stiff words in exams. tree →
12) A square root of a number is the number that, multiplied by itself, gives that number back: the square root of 25 is 5. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: a shape (perimeter = 4 × side, area = side × side), square units of area, square numbers (1, 4, 9, 16, 25). Everyday: the town square, a square of chocolate, squares on a chess board, graph paper with squares. Phrases: back to square one (start again), fair and square (honestly). In casual talk: «we're square», «square up». In the exam voice: «a quadrilateral possessing four sides of equal length», «the number raised to the second power».
examples
- A square has sides of 6 cm. tree →
- Find the area of the square. tree →
- The room is 20 square meters. tree →
- The square of 5 is 25. tree →
- A chessboard has 64 squares. tree →
- The market is held in the town square. tree →
- Can I have a square of chocolate? tree →
- Fold the paper to make a square. tree →
- gave u 5 last week, now u gave me 5, we're square (casual) tree →
- He squared up to me in the playground, the idiot. (rough) tree →
- We won fair and square, 3–2. tree →
- A quadrilateral possessing four sides of equal length, each measuring 7 cm; determine its area. (formal exam) tree →
- He tried it by square root and by cube root. tree →
note
Countable noun; verb squared, squaring. Perimeter = 4 × side, area = side × side; «square meters» is a unit of area. Trap: the square of 5 is 25, not 10. Trap: a square is a special rectangle and a special rhombus. Trap: «5 square metres» (an area) is not «5 metres square» (a square 5 m on each side, area 25). «We're square» means no money is owed, so the difference is 0. Formal «raised to the second power» = squared.
In the corpora
- Lions have a special voice box with square-shaped folds that make a very deep, loud sound.
- Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat.
- The big chart of coloured squares on the science-classroom wall is the periodic table, and every square is one element.
- In snakes and ladders, count from the next square, not the one you are on.
- Lake Superior, between Canada and the United States, is the largest freshwater lake by area, at about 82,000 square kilometres.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «square» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.