Square

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; 'a checkerboard has 64 squares'.

(noun.) a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views.

(noun.) someone who doesn't understand what is going on.

(noun.) the product of two equal terms; 'nine is the second power of three'; 'gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance'.

(noun.) (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'.

(noun.) something approximating the shape of a square.

(verb.) make square; 'Square the circle'; 'square the wood with a file'.

(verb.) raise to the second power.

(verb.) position so as to be square; 'He squared his shoulders'.

(verb.) pay someone and settle a debt; 'I squared with him'.

(verb.) be compatible with; 'one idea squares with another'.

(verb.) cause to match, as of ideas or acts.

(adj.) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned .

(adj.) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; 'a square peg in a round hole'; 'a square corner' .

(adj.) without evasion or compromise; 'a square contradiction'; 'he is not being as straightforward as it appears' .

(adj.) leaving no balance; 'my account with you is now all square' .

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• How she had to work and thrum at these duets and sonatas in the Street, before they appeared in public in the Square! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He might have seen his old acquaintance Amelia on her way from Brompton to Russell Square, had he been looking out. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I went into the next room, and so saw Rachel again for the first time since we had parted in Montagu Square. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Even the circle, square, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering gloom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He ran across the streets and the great squares of Vanity Fair, and at length came up breathless opposite his own house. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The squares are to enable the player to properly judge the angles of play. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It operates to exclude recognition of everything except what squares up with the fixed end in view. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• These hundreds of green squares, marked by their black lava walls, make the hills look like vast checkerboards. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• While still warm dip porous paper (cut into small squares) in the solution and dry them. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Mr. George approaches softly to the bedside, makes his bow, squares his chest, and stands, with his face flushed, very heartily ashamed of himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The treatment seemed entirely moral and squared very well with the conscience of that community. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He had squared himself on the threshold, his hands thrust deep in his pockets. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The letter, which was scrawled in pencil uphill and downhill and round crooked corners, ran thus: 'OLD RIAH, Your accounts being all squared, go. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And presently the Oracle stepped out with his eternal spy-glass and squared himself on the deck like another Colossus of Rhodes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was walled three feet above ground with squared and heavy blocks of stone, after the manner of Bible pictures. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Although he squared himself again directly, he expressed a great amount of natural emotion by these simple means. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There we stood, well squared up before it, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us, not budging an inch. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I know somewhere about what things are likely to be; but there's no trimming and squaring my affairs, as Chloe trims crust off her pies. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I have been a thoughtless rascal about squaring prices--but come, dear, sit down and forgive me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Old problems like squaring the circle, trisec ting the angle, and doubling the cube, were now attempted in a new spirit and with fresh vigor. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But with agriculture began the difficult task of squaring the lunar month with the solar year; a task which has left its scars on our calendar to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The geometer is always talking of squaring, subtending, apposing, as if he had in view action; whereas knowledge is the real object of the study. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• One day the footman found him squaring his fists at Lord Steyne's hat in the hall. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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