square
make square
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,177 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 15,603 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- make square also: square up Square the circlesquare the wood with a file
- raise to the second power
- cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- position so as to be square He squared his shoulders
- be compatible with one idea squares with another
- pay someone and settle a debt I squared with him
square in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Write down what I tell you.--Colonel Mostyn Ray, No. 17, Sussex Square.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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Far off above us a square of light trembled through the screen of snow.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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That part of the Roman forum, or public square, where the Patricians were accustomed to meet.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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She was thirty-four and a well-set-up creature, with fine square shoulders and a long small waist and good hips.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Here Smith was placed upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1