Square vs. Tetragon

(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.

(metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.

A cell in a grid.

Example: ‘You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.’;

A square piece, part, or surface, such as a square of glass.

The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

A true measure, standard, or pattern.

An open space often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.

(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.

Example: ‘64 is the square of 8.’;

(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.

(1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.

Example: ‘Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!’;

(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

Example: ‘Enter your account number followed by a square.’;

(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

Example: ‘An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.’;

(real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.

Example: ‘2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]’;

(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

(academia) A mortarboard

A square meal.

Example: ‘Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.’;

(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.

(slang) Cigarette.

(brewing) A vat used for fermentation.

Shaped like a square the polygon.

Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

Example: ‘a square corner’;

Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.

Example: ‘9 is a square number.’;

Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

Example: ‘square metre’; ‘square mile’;

Honest; straightforward.

Example: ‘square dealing’;

Fair.

Example: ‘I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.’;

Even; tied

Example: ‘to make or leave the accounts square’; ‘The sides were square at the end of the half.’;

(slang) Socially conventional; boring.

(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.

Correctly aligned with respect to something else.

hearty; vigorous

Example: ‘It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.’;

Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

Example: ‘a man of a square frame’;

(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:

Example: ‘The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.’;

(nautical) To place at a right angle to the keel.

Example: ‘to square the yards’;

To resolve or reconcile.

Example: ‘John can square this question up for us.’; ‘These results just don't square.’;

To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.

Example: ‘I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.’; ‘to square our actions by the opinions of others’;

Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.

(transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.

Example: ‘square the circle’;

(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch

(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.

(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.

To form with four sides and four right angles.

To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.

Example: ‘to square mason's work’;

To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so

Example: ‘He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches.’;

A pane of glass.

An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.

Example: ‘The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.’;

An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.

Hence, a pattern or rule.

The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8

Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

Example: ‘They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.’; ‘I have not kept my square.’;

A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.

Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

Example: ‘We live not on the square with such as these.’;

The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.

The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.

Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.

Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.

Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.

Example: ‘She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.’;

Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest; as, square dealing.

Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.

Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.

Example: ‘By Heaven, square eaters.More meat, I say.’;

At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; - said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

To form with four equal sides and four right angles.

To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square masons' work.

To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.

Example: ‘Square my trialTo my proportioned strength.’;

To make even, so as to leave no remainder or difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.

To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.

To hold a quartile position respecting.

Example: ‘The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales.’;

To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.

Example: ‘No works shall find acceptance . . .That square not truly with the Scripture plan.’;

To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

Example: ‘Are you such foolsTo square for this?’;

To take a boxing attitude; - often with up, sometimes with off.

(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon;

Example: ‘you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides’;

the product of two equal terms;

Example: ‘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

someone who doesn't understand what is going on

a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles;

Example: ‘a checkerboard has 64 squares’;

a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles;

Example: ‘the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square’;

raise to the second power

make square;

Example: ‘Square the circle’; ‘square the wood with a file’;

cause to match, as of ideas or acts

position so as to be square;

Example: ‘He squared his shoulders’;

be compatible with;

Example: ‘one idea squares with another’;

pay someone and settle a debt;

Example: ‘I squared with him’;

turn the paddle; in canoeing

turn the oar, while rowing

having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle;

Example: ‘a square peg in a round hole’; ‘a square corner’;

leaving no balance;

Example: ‘my account with you is now all square’;

characterized by honesty and fairness;

Example: ‘a square deal’; ‘wanted to do the square thing’;

without evasion or compromise;

Example: ‘a square contradiction’; ‘he is not being as straightforward as it appears’;

rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

in a straight direct way;

Example: ‘looked him squarely in the eye’; ‘ran square into me’;

with honesty and fairness;

Example: ‘dealt squarely with his customers’; ‘always treated me square’;

in a square shape;

Example: ‘a squarely cut piece of paper’; ‘folded the sheet of paper square’;

firmly and solidly;

Example: ‘hit the ball squarely’; ‘the bat met the ball squarely’; ‘planted his great bulk square before his enemy’;

a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles

Example: ‘a grid of ruled squares’;

a thing that is square or approximately square in shape

Example: ‘she tore a bit of cloth into a four-inch square’;

a thing having the shape or approximate shape of a cube

Example: ‘a small square of chocolate’;

a small square area on the board used in a game

Example: ‘move the white king's pawn forward two squares’;

a body of infantry drawn up in rectangular form.

a unit of 100 square ft used as a measure of flooring, roofing, etc.

a square scarf.

a mortar board.

the portion of the cover of a bound book which projects beyond the pages.

an open, typically four-sided, area surrounded by buildings in a village, town, or city

Example: ‘a market square’; ‘Leicester Square’;

an open area at the meeting of streets.

a closer-cut area at the centre of a ground, any strip of which may be prepared as a wicket.

an area within a military barracks or camp used for drill.

a block of buildings bounded by four streets.

the product of a number multiplied by itself

Example: ‘a circle's area is proportional to the square of its radius’;

an L-shaped or T-shaped instrument used for obtaining or testing right angles

Example: ‘a carpenter's square’;

an aspect of 90° (one quarter of a circle)

Example: ‘Venus in square to Jupiter’;

a person considered to be old-fashioned or boringly conventional in attitude or behaviour

Example: ‘Reg is such a square’;

a cigarette containing tobacco rather than cannabis.

a square meal

Example: ‘three squares a day’;

having the shape or approximate shape of a square

Example: ‘a square table’;

having the shape or approximate shape of a cube

Example: ‘a square block of flats’;

having or in the form of two right angles

Example: ‘a suitable length of wood with square ends’;

having an outline resembling two corners of a square

Example: ‘his square jaw’;

broad and solid in shape

Example: ‘he was short and square’;

denoting a unit of measurement equal to the area of a square whose side is of the unit specified

Example: ‘30,000 square feet of new gallery space’;

denoting the length of each side of a square shape or object

Example: ‘the office was fifteen feet square’;

at right angles; perpendicular

Example: ‘these lines must be square to the top and bottom marked edges’;

in a direction transversely across the field or pitch

Example: ‘Keen's square pass was rammed home first time by Bishop’;

having or denoting an aspect of 90°

Example: ‘Jupiter is square to the Sun’;

level or parallel

Example: ‘place two pieces of wood one on top of the other, ensuring that they are exactly square’;

properly arranged; in good order

Example: ‘we should get everything square before we leave’;

compatible or in agreement

Example: ‘he wanted to make sure we were square with the court's decision and not subject to a lawsuit’;

fair and honest

Example: ‘she'd been as square with him as anybody could be’;

(of two people) owing nothing to each other

Example: ‘an acknowledgement that we are square’;

with both players or sides having equal scores in a game

Example: ‘the goal brought the match all square once again’;

old-fashioned or boringly conventional

Example: ‘Elvis was anything but square’;

(of rhythm) simple and straightforward.

directly; straight

Example: ‘the ball hit me square in the forehead’;

fairly; honestly

Example: ‘I'd acted square with him’;

in a direction transversely across the field or pitch

Example: ‘the ball bounced almost square to the left’;

make square or rectangular; give a square or rectangular cross section to

Example: ‘you can square off the other edge’;

mark out in squares

Example: ‘a sheet of squared paper’;

multiply (a number) by itself

Example: ‘5 squared equals 25’;

convert (a linear unit of measurement) to a unit of area equal to a square whose side is of the unit specified

Example: ‘there were only three people per kilometre squared’;

make compatible; reconcile

Example: ‘I'm able to square my profession with my religious beliefs’;

be compatible

Example: ‘do those announcements really square with the facts?’;

balance (an account)

Example: ‘institutions are anxious to square their books before the election’;

settle or pay (a bill or debt)

Example: ‘would you square up the bill?’;

make the score of (a match or game) even

Example: ‘his goal squared the match 1–1’;

bring (one's shoulders) into a position in which they appear square and broad, typically to prepare oneself for a difficult task or event

Example: ‘chin up, shoulders squared, she stepped into the room’;

adopt a posture of defence.

secure the help or acquiescence of (someone), especially by offering an inducement

Example: ‘trying to square the press’;

pass (a ball) across the field, especially towards the centre.

set (a yard or other part of a ship) at right angles to the keel or other point of reference.

(of a planet) have a square aspect with (another planet or position)

Example: ‘Saturn squares the Sun on the 17th’;

In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, or 100-gradian angles or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle in which two adjacent sides have equal length.

Quadrilateral.

An aspect of two planets with regard to the Earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or a quarter-circle.

A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.

An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.

a four-sided polygon