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What about a 3-year lease with more square footage and a higher rent?

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Quick take

(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"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of square gathered in one view.

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

the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"

noun

an open area at the meeting of two or more streets

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for square.

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

the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"

noun

an open area at the meeting of two or more streets

noun

something approximating the shape of a square

noun

someone who doesn't understand what is going on

noun

a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

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 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"

verb

make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"

verb

raise to the second power

verb

cause to match, as of ideas or acts

verb

position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"

verb

be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"

verb

pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"

verb

turn the paddle; in canoeing

verb

turn the oar, while rowing

adjective

having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"

adjective

characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal"

adjective

providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"

See also: hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial

adjective

leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square"

adjective

without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"

adjective

rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

adverb

in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"

adverb

in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"

adverb

firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"

Example sentences

What about a 3-year lease with more square footage and a higher rent?

Now the heavy checkbox has been replaced by a faint square, and the sender's name is about 2x further away from it.

So a square is symmetrical when transformed by reflection along either of two axes.

So if you press a "load picture" button, then maybe a gray square with a spinner will appear, but the rest of the interface should continue working as usual.

I kid, a little --- we pay recruiting bonuses too --- but I'm "kidding on the square".My sense of it is that the valley believes recruiting to be a "top of the funnel" problem.

As well as reading the data from the plot, it revealed a peak that had been covered up with a square - the author had deliberately obscured a peak in their data that was inconvenient.

Guess what though, taking the squares have a purpose: it penalizes big deviations so two situations which have the same mean deviation but one is more stable have different standard deviations.

Those are both very real life things just not the same thing.>>It is all due to a historical accident: in 1893, the great Karl Pearson introduced the term "standard deviation" for what had been known as "root mean square error".

As a user, I don't want to have to make this distinction, and it's hard to imagine most users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing* The address bar is square edged while the search bar is round edged, which is displeasingly visually.

I think David Foster Wallace gives the most accurate comparison I've read, and I always want to show it to those lucky souls who have never had to deal with this type of depression:The so-called psychotically depressed person who tries to kill herself doesnt do so out of quote hopelessness or any abstract conviction that lifes assets and debits do not square.

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How do you use square in a sentence?

What about a 3-year lease with more square footage and a higher rent?

What does square mean?

(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"