'squares'
[square.n.01] as in: (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



'squares'
[square.n.02] as in: the product of two equal terms


Examples:
nine is the second power of three
gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance



'squares'
[public_square.n.01] as in: an open area at the meeting of two or more streets



'squares'
[square.n.04] as in: something approximating the shape of a square



'squares'
[square.n.05] as in: someone who doesn't understand what is going on



'squares'
[square.n.06] as in: a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views



'squares'
[square.n.07] as in: 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



'squares'
[square.n.08] as in: 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



'squares'
[square.v.01] as in: make square


Examples:
Square the circle
square the wood with a file



'squares'
[square.v.02] as in: raise to the second power



'squares'
[square.v.03] as in: cause to match, as of ideas or acts



'squares'
[square.v.04] as in: position so as to be square


Examples:
He squared his shoulders



'squares'
[square.v.05] as in: be compatible with


Examples:
one idea squares with another



'squares'
[square.v.06] as in: pay someone and settle a debt


Examples:
I squared with him



'squares'
[feather.v.03] as in: turn the paddle; in canoeing



'squares'
[feather.v.04] as in: turn the oar, while rowing



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