squares

關於squares的翻譯

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square definition

1. (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
• examples: you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides
2. the product of two equal terms
• examples: nine is the second power of three
• examples: gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance
3. something approximating the shape of a square
4. someone who doesn't understand what is going on
5. a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
6. any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
• examples: a checkerboard has 64 squares
7. a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
• examples: the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square
8. make square
• examples: Square the circle
• examples: square the wood with a file
9. raise to the second power
10. cause to match, as of ideas or acts
11. position so as to be square
• examples: He squared his shoulders
12. be compatible with
• examples: one idea squares with another
13. pay someone and settle a debt
• examples: I squared with him
14. having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
• examples: a square peg in a round hole
• examples: a square corner
15. leaving no balance
• examples: my account with you is now all square
16. without evasion or compromise
• examples: a square contradiction
• examples: he is not being as straightforward as it appears
17. rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
18. in a straight direct way
• examples: looked him squarely in the eye
• examples: ran square into me
19. in a square shape
• examples: a squarely cut piece of paper
• examples: folded the sheet of paper square
20. firmly and solidly
• examples: hit the ball squarely
• examples: the bat met the ball squarely
• examples: planted his great bulk square before his enemy