Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuadrado
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the…
cuadrado
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
A floor that measures 4 feet square has an area of 16 square feet.
square mile
aguacatado • anticuado • cuadrado • cuadriculado • momio • zanahorio
Socially conventional; boring.
It was a square town, but that didn't bother me. I knew I didn't have to live a square life.
The square Johns lie more than the in-guys do.
Phrases
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuadrado • cuadro
A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.
casilla
Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
cuadrado
The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
64 is the square of 8.
aguacatado • cabeza cuadrada • carca • carroza • momio • soso • zanahorio
A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends.
Good looks are important, but good looks don't hold if he's a square.
Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
almohadilla • numeral
The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
Enter your account number followed by a square.
Phrases
Cartesian squareGolden SquareGreco-Latin squareL squareLatin squareLogan SquareMalcolm Square-PerfectoParker squarePolybius squarePunnett squareRice Krispie squareRoman square capitalsSator squareSquare and CompassSquaresvilleSquarialSquarielT-squareTimes SquareTrafalgar SquareWillington SquareYorkshire squarealphamagic squareantimagic squareback to square onebacon squarebe there and be squarebimagic squareblack squareblue squarecall it squarecapsquarecarpenter's squarecarpentry squarecatch a squarecenter squarecentre squarechi-squarechi-square distributionchi-square test
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuadrar • resolver
To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
John can square this question up for us.
These results just don't square with what we expected.
elevar al cuadrado
Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
Phrases