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squared

skwɛrd
WordNet
Square table on four curved legs
Square table on four curved legs
Square porcelain table covered with a monochrome turquoise blue glaze. With four curved legs, between which a modeled and openwork decoration of lambrequins and volutes. Two legs restored; crack in the top and base; some pieces missing from the decoration. Monochromes.
  1. (adj) squared
    having been made square
Illustrations
Above a view of St. Mark's Square, below Weymouth harbor.
St Mark's square and doge's palace
A view of Port Elizabeth's market square and a view of Hill Street in Grahamstad
Porcelain dish, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green and black. In the center an openwork flower basket; on the edge a square frame with turned corners, decorated with loose flowers and lotus tendrils; around it stylized chrysanthemums and half lotuses against a background of napkin. A crack in the rim. Famille rose.
Dish with a flower basket in a square frame with turned corners
Irregularly shaped, square stoneware bowl, covered with a red glaze [?] And painted in green, yellow and black. The front with a river landscape in relief with a scholar on horseback followed by two servants in the foreground. In the background a group of scholars sitting on the shore. A boat in the water. The landscape with trees (pine, banana plant), mountains and rocks. The back with karakusa tendrils against a yellow background. Old label on the bottom with 'W727'. Kyoyaki in imitation of red paintwork.
Square scale with scholars in a river landscape with trees and rocks
Square porcelain dish with squeezed corners and a round tray, painted in underglaze blue and red and gold on the glaze. In the center a flower-shaped cartouche with flowering plants in each compartment. Flower tendrils on the edge. The outer edge with four flower sprays (prunus, peony). Four proons on the bottom. Imari.
Square saucer with a flower-shaped cartouche of flowering plants
Square porcelain vase with flat body and neck, rounded parts on the shoulder and above the base and square, wide neck with a flat rim, covered with a lightly crackled, monochrome turquoise glaze. Two ears modeled in the shape of an elephant's head with ring. Monochromes.
Square vase with ears in the shape of an elephant's head
Square flower pot or vase made of porcelain on a spreading foot and an upward tapering wall, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. The walls are covered with napkin, with whimsically shaped cartouches with people on a terrace in front of a pavilion or three birds on a branch. tendrils on the foot containing a horse cartouche with birds and plants; matching loose plate on top with five holes for loose flowers, decorated with flower sprays. Contemporary silver ears. Plate has been broken: a crack in the vase. European shapes with famille rose / mandarin.
Square flower pot or vase made of porcelain on a spreading foot and an upward tapering wall, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. The walls are covered with napkin, with whimsically shaped cartouches with people on a terrace in front of a pavilion or three birds on a branch. tendrils on the foot containing a horse cartouche with birds and plants; matching loose plate on top with five holes for loose flowers, decorated with flower sprays. Contemporary silver ears. Plate has been broken: a crack in the vase. European shapes with famille rose / mandarin.
Christ blesses the children. Christ sits on the steps of an arched building near a ruin and blesses the children who come to him, some with their mothers.
Christ blesses the children. Christ sits on the steps of an arched building near a ruin and blesses the children who come to him, some with their mothers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
There are 6,272,640 square inches in an acre.
  1. squared
    Made square; also, marked off in squares: as, squared paper. See. coördinate paper.
Quotations
Woody Allen
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Woody Allen
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
Frank Dane
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Source Unknown
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Square meals often make round people.
E. Joseph Cossman
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Lawrence Durrell
Idioms

All square - If something is all square, nobody has an advantage or is ahead of the others.

Back to square one - If you are back to square one, you have to start from the beginning again.

Fair and square - If someone does something fair and square, they do it correctly, following any rules or laws.

Four-square behind - If someone stands four-square behind someone, they give that person their full support.

Square meal - A square meal is a substantial or filling meal.

Square Mile - (UK) The Square Mile is the City, the financial area of London.

Usage in the news

Alas, its midnight, and you're either too lazy, too square, or too bad ass to take part in Thirsty Thursday celebrations. kjhk.org

Cynthia McCormack, Medical Director for the Cheyenne VA says the new 22,000 square foot outpatient clinic will include 43 exam rooms and will enable them to provide more outpatient services. kingfm.com

It's to serve as anchor tenant for a three-story, 57,200-square-foot retail center dubbed Publix at 18Biscayne. miamitodaynews.com

In addition to the grocery store, the retail center is to house 8,000 square feet of retail facing Biscayne Boulevard. miamitodaynews.com

Occupiers reappear at Dewey Square for April Fools' Day. metro.us

It's really not a square job. lamag.com

All together, the companies have agreed to lease 600,000 square feet in Santa Clara. contracostatimes.com

In this file photo taken April 24, 2006, a 23,000-square-foot mansion in Mercer Island, Wash. csmonitor.com

The 91-room hotel re-development features 70 feet of beachfront and 900 square feet of water frontage. lhonline.com

With the debut of Three Squares Cafe, however, he believes he's found the perfect reinvention for the space near Santa Rosa 's Railroad Square, where he's cooking not only with his heart but for his heart. sfgate.com

Redico LLC refinanced One Kennedy Square in downtown Detroit for $27.3 million or $112 per square foot. crainsdetroit.com

Tata's new tiny studio and one-bedroom apartments will range from about $7,800 to $13,400 and will be between 218 square feet and 373 square feet. businessweek.com

Square One Aims to Place The Parking Spot on Travelers' Maps DALLAS--Square One has a new client seeing spots in a campaign that launches this month. adweek.com

The guessing game is over about 5 Times Square : Crain's reports that Boston Properties will sell the 1.1-million- square -foot, Class A office tower to AVR Realty for $1.28 billion. observer.com

For an overview of this grand square and the buildings that surround it, start from the west end of the square and follow along with this guide. smithsonianmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

Asymptotics of normalized traces like in (7) cannot be computed with free probability theory, because our random matrices are not square, and we cannot reduce the problem, as for M (1, n)M (2, n)∗ , to a problem which involves only independent square random matrices.
Rectangular random matrices. Related convolution

We choose a family F ′′ ⊂ F ′ of cA−2r−1R “4Ar-separated squares” (that is, all the distances between the centers of these squares are not less than 4Ar), and discard the rest of F ′ .
Transportation to random zeroes by the gradient flow

If the domain Ei with Ri 6 R intersects the square Q, then Ei is contained in the square with side length 4R + 1 homothetic to Q.
Transportation to random zeroes by the gradient flow

The proof of maximal theorems and noncommutative versions of Rosenthal’s inequality often uses square function and conditioned square function estimates, see and the references therein.
Theory of Amalgamated Lp Spaces in Noncommutative Probability

The following tail bound on the sum of squares of n independent Gaussians, also known as the chisquare distribution with n degrees of freedom, can be proved Chernoff-style using the moment generating function of the square of a Gaussian random variable.
Random measurement bases, quantum state distinction and applications to the hidden subgroup problem

Usage in literature

The town is handsome, square in form, enclosed in a wall with towers. "Across Coveted Lands" by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

The square dances were exceedingly vigorous, all jigging on the corners and always taking fancy steps. "Old Rail Fence Corners" by Various

The pressure in pounds per square inch = 0.433 x height of column in feet. "Steam, Its Generation and Use" by Babcock & Wilcox Co.

You're a square chap and I can afford to be square, now that the job is done and paid for. "Joan of Arc of the North Woods" by Holman Day

The above glasses may be had in sheets from 0.25 to 1 inch thick, and 6 to 12 inches square, at a cost of, say, 7s. "On Laboratory Arts" by Richard Threlfall

There was a small, square rug before every chair, and a large one before the sofa. "Rollo in Paris" by Jacob Abbott

Square, calm, strong, like the professional gambler he always seemed to have a winning card to play at the right moment. "The Heart of Unaga" by Ridgwell Cullum

Be sure to get the pieces for the posts with their surfaces square to each other and their ends sawed square off. "Mission Furniture" by H. H. Windsor

To make it, square up a piece to 16-1/2 by 16-1/2 in. "Mission Furniture" by H. H. Windsor

L. No; I mean a square, or a cross, or a diamond. "The Crown of Wild Olive" by John Ruskin

Usage in poetry
In this street there lived a housemaid,
If you particklarly ask me where—
Vy, it vas at four-and-tventy
Guilford Street, by Brunsvick Square.
What is the matter with the landscape?
Familiar landmarks are not there.
Ploughed fields, like squares upon a chessboard,
Today are scattered everywhere.
For could you mount yon glittering stairs
And on their topmost turret stand,—
Still endless shining courts and squares,
And lanes of lamps on every hand.
’T is midnight,—­street and square are still;
Dark roll the whispering waves
That lap the piers beneath the hill
Ridged thick with ancient graves.
On that Caucasian head
There is no crown of hair;
It has gone, it has fled!
And Echo sez "Where?"
And I asks, "Is this Nation a White Man's, and is generally things
on the square?"
Not in the street and not in the square,
The street and square where you went and came;
With shuttered casement your house stands bare,
Men hush their voice when they speak your name.