SQUARES

v. make square; multiply a number by itself (Mathematics); correspond; bring into agreement with; settle, make right (a debt, etc); straighten; bribe (Slang)

n. geometric figure having four equal sides; something shaped like a square; open area in a town or city, plaza; exponent of 2; tool with straight edges and a right angle; conservative person (Slang)

For the "Squares" game, see Dots and Boxes During the swing era, the late 1920s to 1947, jazz musicians and their followers were called hepcats, and hep was used to describe people who were in the know, about music, night life, drugs, sex, etc. Swingers were known as hepcats. People who were not swingers were called squares. In the early 40's, squares who were fond of swing music but did not necessarily follow the hep lifestyle began using the term hep to describe themselves, so the musicians, in an attempt to distinguish themselves from the squares, began using the term hip instead of hep and hence, the hepcats became hipsters. In the 50's, hipsters began to be called beatniks. Squares, however, remained squares until the 1960s, when hipsters and beatniks became hippies, and squares became straights.
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Noun
1. (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"
(synonym) foursquare
(hypernym) rectangle
(hyponym) quadrate
(derivation) square up
(classification) geometry
2. the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
(synonym) second power
(hypernym) number
3. an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
(synonym) public square
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(hyponym) Trafalgar Square
(part-holonym) city
4. something approximating the shape of a square
(hypernym) shape, form
5. someone who doesn't understand what is going on
(synonym) lame
(hypernym) simpleton, simple
6. a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
(synonym) square toes
(hypernym) conservative, conservativist
(classification) colloquialism
7. any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
(hypernym) artifact, artefact
(part-holonym) checkerboard
8. 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"
(hypernym) hand tool
(hyponym) carpenter's square
Verb
1. raise to the second power
(hypernym) multiply
(derivation) second power
(classification) arithmetic
2. make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
(synonym) square up
(hypernym) shape, form
3. cause to match, as of ideas or acts
(hypernym) adjust, conform, adapt
4. position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"
(hypernym) position
(hyponym) square up, jog, even up
5. be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
(hypernym) match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
6. pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"
(hypernym) settle
7. turn the paddle; in canoeing
(synonym) feather
(hypernym) paddle
8. turn the oar, while rowing
(synonym) feather
(hypernym) row
Adjective
1. having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
(antonym) round, circular
(similar) quadrate
(see-also) angular, angulate
2. leaving no balance; "my account with you is now all square"
(synonym) square(p)
(similar) paid
(classification) colloquialism
3. characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing"
(synonym) straight
(similar) honest, honorable
4. without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
(synonym) square(a), straightforward
(similar) direct
5. rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
(synonym) straight
(similar) conventional
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
Adverb
1. in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"
(synonym) squarely
2. with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square"
(synonym) squarely
3. in a square shape; "a squarely cut piece of paper"; "folded the sheet of paper square"
(synonym) squarely
4. firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"
(synonym) squarely

n. public garden

<language> A query language, a precursor to SQL.
["Specifying Queries as Relational Expressions: The SQUARE Data Sublanguage", R.E. Boyce et al, CACM 18(11):621-628 (Nov 1975)].
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