square

noun

1. A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
2. A cell in a grid.
3. A square piece, part, or surface.
4. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
5. A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
6. A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
7. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
8. A true measure, standard, or pattern.
9. An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
10. A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
11. The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
12. A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
13. A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
14. A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.
15. The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
16. The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
17. A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
18. A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
19. A mortarboard.
20. Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.