The meaning of Square

noun

A covered passage with arches along one or both sides.

Usage examples:

The arcade became an important passageway between fox street and the square.

adjective

Not interesting; tedious.

Usage examples:

I've got a boring job in an office

verb

Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging.

Usage examples:

Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through

verb

Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour.

Usage examples:

She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes

adjective

Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

Usage examples:

A rich, bored, bourgeois family

noun

A bourgeois person.

Usage examples:

A self-confessed and proud bourgeois

verb

Dishonestly persuade (someone) to act in one's favour by a gift of money or other inducement.

Usage examples:

They attempted to bribe opponents into losing

noun

A sum of money or other inducement offered or given to bribe someone.

Usage examples:

Lawmakers were caught accepting bribes to bring in legalized gambling

verb

Obtain in exchange for payment.

Usage examples:

She bought six first-class stamps

noun

A purchase.

Usage examples:

Wine is rarely a good buy in duty-free shops

verb

To obtain something by paying money for it

Usage examples:

She was saving to buy a car., he bought some flowers for his girlfriend., she’ll never buy that sto…

adjective

Only a short distance away or apart in space or time.

Usage examples:

The hotel is close to the sea

adverb

Very near to someone or something; with very little space between.

Usage examples:

They stood close to the door

noun

Another term for high (sense 7 of the adjective).

noun

A person who conforms to accepted behaviour or established practices.

Usage examples:

Organizations where employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists

adjective

Conforming to accepted behaviour or established practices; conventional.

Usage examples:

The poet became more conformist in his later years

noun

Someone who behaves or thinks like the other people in a group and doesn't do anything unusual

adjective

Averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

Usage examples:

They were very conservative in their outlook

noun

A person who is averse to change and holds traditional values.

Usage examples:

He was considered a conservative in his approach to catholic teachings

adjective

Tending to emphasize the importance of preserving traditional cultural and religious values, and to oppose change, esp. sudden change

Usage examples:

He wore a conservative business suit for his interview., she was conservatively dressed in a gray s…

adjective

Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.

Usage examples:

A conventional morality had dictated behaviour

adjective

Following the usual practices of the past

Usage examples:

We were raised in a conventional, middle-class family., it’s a conventional hot-water heater (= of …

adjective

Relating to accepted or traditional ways of doing something

Usage examples:

Conventional accounting/business practices/methods, it is estimated that over one-third of sub-prim…

adjective

Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.

Usage examples:

Unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials

verb

Cause to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.

Usage examples:

There is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts

adjective

Dishonest and willing to use your position or power to your own advantage, esp. for money

Usage examples:

It’s been called the most politically corrupt city in the nation., your philosophy is corrupt., pol…

noun

An unroofed area that is completely or partially enclosed by walls or buildings, typically one forming part of a castle or large house.

Usage examples:

The long thin office wings enclose two hermetic internal courtyards or patios.

noun

An area of flat ground outside and partly or completely surrounded by one or more buildings

Usage examples:

Entrance to the apartment building is through a central courtyard.

adjective

Having the shape of a cube.

Usage examples:

A cubic room

noun

A cubic equation, or a curve described by one.

Usage examples:

After subsequent work failed to solve equations of higher degree, lagrange undertook an analysis in…

adjective

Used in units of volume to show when the length of something has been multiplied by its width and height

Usage examples:

A cubic centimeter is a centimeter high, a centimeter long, and a centimeter wide.

noun

A person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition.

Usage examples:

A diehard yankees fan

adjective

Unwilling to change or give up your ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so

Usage examples:

A diehard conservative

noun

A fossil reptile of the mesozoic era, in many species reaching an enormous size.

Usage examples:

These great birds were the last successors of the mighty theropod dinosaurs of the mesozoic.

noun

A reptile (= cold-blooded animal), some types of which were extremely large, that stopped existing a very long time ago

Usage examples:

The old car was a gas-guzzling dinosaur and we had to get rid of it.

noun

A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.

Usage examples:

We hope these pages act as a forum for debate

noun

An occasion or a place for talking about a matter of public interest

Usage examples:

The university sponsored a forum on affirmative action.

noun

A meeting in which people can discuss subjects that are important to them with others

Usage examples:

Create/provide a forum for sth the meeting provided a valuable forum for discussing the issue from …

noun

The remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form.

Usage examples:

Sites rich in fossils

noun

Part of a plant or animal, or its shape, that has been preserved in rock or earth for a very long period

noun

A person who has old-fashioned ideas and opinions

Usage examples:

They think i'm an old fuddy-duddy because i don't approve of tattoos.

noun

A collection of small shops under a single roof; an arcade.

Usage examples:

Toplit, the galleria is fundamentally part of the mall with its roof taken off and built up with la…

noun

A building or covered area that contains a group of stores

Usage examples:

I was thinking of going to the galleria on sunday.

adjective

Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical.

Usage examples:

A horizontal line

noun

A horizontal line, plane, etc.

Usage examples:

Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals an…

adjective

Flat or level; parallel with the ground

Usage examples:

Keep the patient in a horizontal position with her feet slightly raised.

noun

A horizontal plane or line with respect to the distance above or below a given point.

Usage examples:

The front garden is on a level with this floor

adjective

Having a flat, horizontal surface.

Usage examples:

We had reached level ground

verb

Give a flat and even surface to.

Usage examples:

Contractors started levelling the ground for the new power station

noun

A large enclosed shopping area from which traffic is excluded.

Usage examples:

Once your store is in every mall, how do you get more growth - especially if the chain is narrowly …

noun

A very large building or buildings containing a lot of stores and often restaurants, and usually with space around it outside for parking

Usage examples:

Judy likes to hang out at the mall with her friends.

noun

A large building or covered area where there are a lot of stores, restaurants, etc. close together. cars are not allowed inside a mall, but there is usually an area for them to park in outside

Usage examples:

Shoppers arrived early at the mall for the black friday sales., bangkok's modern, multi-storey mall…

noun

An open space where a market is or was formerly held.

Usage examples:

The quaint cobbled marketplace

noun

Something that is very old-fashioned and should no longer be used

Usage examples:

That old car is a museum piece - you should get a new one.

noun

A rectangular object or flat figure with unequal adjacent sides.

Usage examples:

An oblong of grass

adjective

Having the shape of an oblong.

Usage examples:

Oblong tables

noun

A shape that is longer than it is wide, esp. a rectangle that is not a square

adjective

Not modern; belonging to or typical of a time in the past

Usage examples:

Old-fashioned clothes/ideas/music, she’s old-fashioned (= her views are typical of the past, not th…

adjective

(of lines, planes, or surfaces) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.

Usage examples:

Parallel lines never meet

noun

A person or thing that is similar or analogous to another.

Usage examples:

A challenge which has no parallel in peacetime this century

verb

Be side by side with (something extending in a line), always keeping the same distance; run or lie parallel to.

Usage examples:

A big concrete gutter that paralleled the road

adjective

At an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface or to the ground.

Usage examples:

Dormers and gables that extend perpendicular to the main roofline

noun

A straight line at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface.

Usage examples:

At each division draw a perpendicular representing the surface line

adjective

At an angle of 90° to another line or surface

Usage examples:

Two perpendicular lines form a right angle., the cliff was nearly perpendicular and impossible to c…

noun

A public square or marketplace, especially in an italian town.

Usage examples:

Here, folks stop to ‘take a coffee’ in one of the town's many piazzas, or public squares, as well a…

noun

Especially in italy, an open area with a hard surface in a town, especially where there is no traffic

noun

A flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points on it would wholly lie.

Usage examples:

The horizontal plane

adjective

Completely level or flat.

Usage examples:

A plane surface

verb

(of a bird or an airborne object) soar without moving the wings; glide.

Usage examples:

Seagulls swooped and planed overhead

noun

A public square, marketplace, or similar open space in a built-up area.

Usage examples:

The plaza is lively in the evenings when the pavement cafes are full

noun

An open, public area in a city or town, or a group of buildings with stores, often including an open, public area

Usage examples:

New york city’s rockefeller plaza

noun

The area within the walls or perceived boundaries of a particular building or place.

Usage examples:

A former mp who still works in the precincts of the house

noun

A quadrangle.

Usage examples:

Students greeted him as he walked through the quad

adjective

Quadruple or quadraphonic.

Usage examples:

Last year i landed my first quad toe loop.

noun

A square or rectangular outside area with buildings on all four sides, often part of the land of a college or university

noun

A four-sided plane figure, especially a square or rectangle.

Usage examples:

You can make rectangles, octagons, septagons, or quadrangles… or you can make ovals as we did.

noun

A flat shape with four straight sides

Usage examples:

Squares and rectangles are forms of quadrangles.

noun

A four-sided figure.

Usage examples:

Cut an 8x8 chessboard into two triangles and two quadrilaterals.

adjective

Having four straight sides.

Usage examples:

The bilobate living area has quadrilateral contours and is partly flanked by some horizontal logs a…

noun

A flat shape with four straight sides

adjective

Denoting or shaped like a rectangle.

Usage examples:

A neat rectangular area

noun

A triangle that has one angle of 90°

noun

A sedate and serious person.

Usage examples:

Fred may develop into such a careful old sobersides that his mother will be ashamed of him.

noun

A person who is dull and unadventurous and who resists change.

Usage examples:

They see many of their colleagues as stick-in-the-muds and sentimental neanderthals

noun

Someone who is old-fashioned and too serious and avoids enjoyable activities

Usage examples:

My dad's a real stick-in-the-mud.

adjective

Extending or moving uniformly in one direction only; without a curve or bend.

Usage examples:

A long, straight road

adverb

In a straight line; directly.

Usage examples:

He was gazing straight at her

noun

(especially of drama) serious as opposed to comic or musical.

Usage examples:

A straight play

adjective

Having old-fashioned and unchanging morals, especially relating to sexual matters

Usage examples:

The joke shocked her strait-laced parents.

adjective

(of a place) lacking fresh air or ventilation.

Usage examples:

A stuffy, overcrowded office

adjective

Formal, boring, and not modern

Usage examples:

A stuffy, arrogant man, the office gets so stuffy in the afternoon.

verb

Bribe or otherwise induce (someone) to commit an unlawful act such as perjury.

Usage examples:

He was accused of conspiring to suborn witnesses

verb

To persuade someone, for example by offering them money, to commit an illegal act, especially to tell lies in a court of law

Usage examples:

He is a liar, and he suborned perjury from her early on in this investigation., such agreements cou…

noun

An advocate of maintaining tradition, especially so as to resist change.

Usage examples:

Traditionalists feared that the character of the building might be lost

adjective

Advocating the upholding or maintenance of tradition.

Usage examples:

A latin prayer used by traditionalist catholics

noun

(especially in prehistoric times) a person who lived in a cave.

Usage examples:

Some may be prehistoric in origin, but most are more recent, some being occupied as houses until th…

noun

A person who lives in a cave, especially a person who lived in a cave in prehistoric times (= the period before there were written records)

Usage examples:

Most people associate troglodytes with prehistoric times, but troglodyte communities still exist in…

adjective

In accordance with fact or reality.

Usage examples:

A true story

adverb

Truly.

Usage examples:

Hobson spoke truer than he knew

verb

Bring (an object, wheel, or other construction) into the exact shape or position required.

Usage examples:

The bench sander is ideal for truing up faces of timber

adjective

Not offering, involving, or eager for new or stimulating things.

Usage examples:

He was the unadventurous type

adjective

Not willing to try new or difficult things

Usage examples:

He was often criticized for his unadventurous tactics., i find her books repetitive and unadventuro…

adjective

(of a person) sitting or standing with the back straight.

Usage examples:

An upright posture

adverb

In or into an upright position.

Usage examples:

She was sitting upright in bed

noun

A post or rod fixed vertically, especially as a structural support.

Usage examples:

The stone uprights of the parapet

adjective

At right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom.

Usage examples:

The vertical axis

noun

A vertical line or plane.

Usage examples:

The columns incline several degrees away from the vertical

adjective

Standing or pointing straight up or at an angle of 90 to a horizontal surface or line

Usage examples:

Water that had leaked from above formed a vertical line down one wall.