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say it: skwer
square is a noun, verb, adjective and adverb meaning "(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon". It is pronounced /ˈskwɛɹ/ — skwer. It carries 25 recorded senses.
(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”
geometry
the product of two equal terms
“nine is the second power of three”
“gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance”
an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
something approximating the shape of a square
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
colloquialism
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
“a checkerboard has 64 squares”
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”
cause to match, as of ideas or acts
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
“a square peg in a round hole”
“a square corner”
providing abundant nourishment
“a hearty meal”
“good solid food”
“ate a substantial breakfast”
“four square meals a day”
without evasion or compromise
“a square contradiction”
“he is not being as straightforward as it appears”
firmly and solidly
“hit the ball squarely”
“the bat met the ball squarely”
“planted his great bulk square before his enemy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for square come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.