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Noun square has 8 senses

square, foursquare - (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"
--₁ is a kind of rectangle; regular polygon
--₁ has particulars: quadrate
Derived form: verb square₂
square, second power - the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
--₂ is a kind of number

Derived form: verb square₁
public square, square - an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
--₃ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₃ is a part of city
--₃ has particulars: Trafalgar Square; plaza, place, piazza
square - something approximating the shape of a square
--₄ is a kind of shape, form
square, lame - someone who doesn't understand what is going on
--₅ is a kind of simpleton, simple
square, square toes - a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
--₆ is a kind of conservative, conservativist
square - any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
--₇ is a kind of artifact, artefact
--₇ is a part of checkerboard
Derived forms: verb square₄, verb square₂
square - 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"
--₈ is a kind of hand tool
--₈ has particulars: carpenter's square; try square; T-square

Verb square has 8 senses

square - raise to the second power
--₁ is one way to multiply

Derived form: noun square₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
square, square up - make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
--₂ is one way to shape, form

Derived forms: noun square₇, noun square₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
square - cause to match, as of ideas or acts
--₃ is one way to adjust, conform, adapt
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
square - position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"
--₄ is one way to position

Derived form: noun square₇
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
square - be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
--₅ is one way to match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
square - pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"
--₆ is one way to settle
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
feather, square - turn the paddle; in canoeing
--₇ is one way to paddle
Sample sentence:
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feather, square - turn the oar, while rowing
--₈ is one way to row
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s