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squared

/skwair/US // skwɛər //UK // (skwɛə) //

成正比的,成方形的,成平方数的,成正比

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
    • : anything having this form or a form approximating it, as a city block, rectangular piece of candy, etc.
    • : an open area or plaza in a city or town, formed by the meeting or intersecting of two or more streets and often planted with grass, trees, etc., in the center.
    • : a rectangularly shaped area on a game board, as in chess or checkers.
    • : a try square, T square, or the like.
    • : Mathematics. the second power of a quantity, expressed as a2 = a × a, where a is the quantity.a quantity that is the second power of another: Four is the square of two.
    • : Slang. a person who is ignorant of or uninterested in current fads, ideas, manners, tastes, etc.; an old-fashioned, conventional, or conservative person.
    • : Military. a body of troops drawn up in quadrilateral form.
    • : Building Trades. a unit of measure for roofing materials, equal to 100 square feet.
    • : a flower bud of the cotton plant.
    • : Nautical. the area at the bottom of a hatchway.
    • : Usually squares. Informal. a square meal: to get three squares a day.
    • : Astrology. a situation in which two heavenly bodies or groups of heavenly bodies have celestial longitudes differing by 90 degrees, an aspect indicative of internal tension with an equally strong and conflicting need for adjustment.
    • : Obsolete. a pattern, standard, or example.
v.有主动词 verb
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    squared, squar·ing.

    • : to reduce to square, rectangular, or cubical form: He squared off the log to make a timber for his house.
    • : to mark out in one or more squares or rectangles.
    • : to test with measuring devices for deviation from a right angle, straight line, or plane surface.
    • : Mathematics. to multiply by itself; raise to the second power.to describe or find a square that is equivalent in area to: to square a circle.
    • : to bring to the form of a right angle or right angles; set at right angles to something else.
    • : to even the score of: to square a game.
    • : to set in an erect posture so they form an angle similar to a right angle.
    • : to make straight, level, or even: Square the cloth on the table.
    • : to regulate, as by a standard; adapt; adjust.
    • : to adjust harmoniously or satisfactorily: How could you square such actions with your conscience?
    • : to balance; pay off; settle: to square a debt.
    • : Slang. to secure a desired action or attitude by means of bribery; bribe.
v.无主动词 verb
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    squared, squar·ing.

    • : to accord or agree: Your theory does not square with the facts.
    • : to settle, even, or balance a matter, as by paying a bill, returning a favor, or tying a score.
    • : to form buds.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    squar·er, squar·est.

    • : formed by or as a right angle; having some part or parts rectangular: a square corner.
    • : having four sides and four right angles in two dimensions or three pairs of parallel sides meeting at right angles in three dimensions; having each dimension in the shape of a square or rectangle and all angles right angles: a square box.
    • : noting any unit of area measurement having the form of a square and designated by a unit of linear measurement forming a side of the square: one square foot.
    • : noting a system of area measurement in terms of such units.
    • : equal to a square of a specified length on a side: five miles square.
    • : at right angles, or perpendicular.
    • : Nautical. at right angles to the mast and the keel, as a yard.
    • : having a square or rectangular section: a square bar.
    • : having a solid, sturdy form, especially when characterized by a rectilinear or angular outline.
    • : straight, level, or even, as a surface.
    • : leaving no balance of debt on either side; having all accounts settled: I'm all square with my landlord.
    • : just, fair, or honest.
    • : straightforward, direct, or unequivocal.
    • : Slang. conventional or conservative in style or outlook; not hip.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : so as to be square; in square or rectangular form.
    • : at right angles.
    • : fairly or honestly.
    • : directly or straightforwardly.
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    • : square around, Baseball. to shift the feet and body from a conventional batting stance to a position facing the pitcher, with the bat held across and in front of the body.
    • : square away, Nautical.to arrange the yards so as to sail before the wind.to prepare; get ready: Square away for dinner.to assume a position of defense or offense: The wrestlers squared away for the first fall.to organize or complete satisfactorily; put in order: I want to square away the work before going on vacation.
    • : square off, to assume a posture of defense or offense, as in boxing: They squared off for a fight.to prepare to dispute with another; show signs of opposition or resistance: The governor and the legislature are squaring off over the landfill issue.
    • : square up, to pay or settle an account, bill, etc.: We squared up with the cashier and checked out of the hotel.

Phrases

  • square away
  • square deal
  • square meal, a
  • square off
  • square one's shoulders
  • square peg in a round hole
  • square the circle
  • square up
  • square with
  • back to the drawing board (square one)
  • fair and square
  • on the square
  • round peg in a square hole
  • shoot straight (square)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter of Earth’s dayside surface, after racing here from the outer envelope of a natural giant thermonuclear reactor we call the sun.

  • It makes the same prediction for spaces of every dimension — that in covering, say, 12-dimensional space using 12-dimensional “square” tiles, you will end up with at least two tiles that abut each other exactly.

  • Treating arid land with LNC costs $2 to $5 per square meter, far more than many farmers can afford.

  • Most of these were “gridworlds”—literally two-dimensional grids with objects in some squares.

  • The median sales price of homes in Cheesman Park is $350,000 with an average of $401 per square foot.

  • Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.

  • This last trip it had felt as if there were more cameras around Havana than Times Square.

  • Records describe this house as 6,916 square feet, with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

  • The international media had been waiting on Wenceslas Square since early afternoon.

  • In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

  • Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.

  • For years his lordship was seldom seen in London, the great house in Grosvenor Square was never opened.

  • She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.

  • I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

  • The building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.