A Quick and Simple Dictionary

square

1. Noun.  Any simple object with four nearly straight and nearly equal sides meeting at nearly right angles.
2. Noun.  An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
3. Noun.  An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
4. Noun.  A cell in a grid.
5. Noun.  (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.
6. Noun.  (mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.
7. Noun.  (slang) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s.
8. Noun.  (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
9. Noun.  (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, containing several pitches laid out next to one another - only one being used at a time.
10. Noun.  (context, real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 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.
11. Noun.  (context, roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
12. Noun.  (North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
13. Noun.  (context, academia) A mortarboard.
14. Noun.  (colloquial, US) A square meal.
15. Adjective.  Shaped like a square (the polygon).
16. Adjective.  At right angles to.
17. Adjective.  Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
18. Adjective.  Honest; straightforward.
19. Adjective.  Fair.
20. Adjective.  Even; tied.
21. Adjective.  (slang) Socially conventional; boring.
22. Adjective.  (cricket) in line with the batsman's popping crease.
23. Adjective.  Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
24. Verb.  (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
25. Verb.  To resolve.
26. Verb.  To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony ''with'' something.
27. Verb.  (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term(,) or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
28. Verb.  (transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
29. Verb.  (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch.