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noun
- A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
- A cell in a grid.
- The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- 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.
- A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
- The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- Cigarette.
- The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- 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.
- 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.
- The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- A mortarboard.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A vat used for fermentation.
verb
- To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To hold a quartile position respecting.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular
- To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
adv
adj
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- Even; tied
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Socially conventional; boring.
- Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
noun
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
verb
noun
- A group of soldiers; military forces.
- Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
- A group of meerkat families living together.
- A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- A company of actors; a troupe.
- A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- A group of baboons.
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- An individual soldier or member of a military force.
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- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An excursion or side trip.
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
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noun
- A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- The favorite in a sporting event.
- The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- Tailor's chalk.
- A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
- A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
verb
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
noun
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
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- The body of soldiers thus assembled.
- Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times.
- Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.
- Synonym of road, used in place names.
- A row of shops beside a street.
- Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.
- Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.
- Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.
- Synonym of show: any similarly orderly or ostentatious display, especially of a variety of people or a series of things paraded around.
- A public procession, especially one commemorating a holiday or special event or (dated) in protest.
- The body of promenaders thus assembled.
verb
- Synonym of show off: to display or reveal prominently or ostentatiously, especially in a kind of procession.
- To march through or along.
- To march past.
- To assemble soldiers for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- To assemble for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
- To walk in a row led by one parent, often trailed by the other.
- To move slowly through or among.
- To march impressively or ostentatiously.
- Synonym of promenade: to walk up and down, especially in public in order to show off and be seen by others.
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- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
noun
- An air force formation.
- A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- A subset of a culture or of a society.
- A functional group.
- A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- A collection of formations or rock strata.
- A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A commercial organization.
- A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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noun
- bringing together military forces
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- increase in density
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- great and constant diligence and attention
noun
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- a job in an organization
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- A message on a social media website
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
verb
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a post; put into a post
- assign to a station
- display, as of records in sports games
- enter on a public list
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- mark with a stake
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- mark or expose as infamous
- To post a message on a social media website
noun
- A small detachment of soldiers.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- The primary item on the menu bar, containing commands such as open, save, print, etc.
- Course of thought; thread of narration.
- A roll or list.
- An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
verb
- To submit a formal request to some office.
- To corrupt.
- To commit (official papers) to some office.
- To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- To move in a file.
- To submit (a story) to a newspaper or similar publication.
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noun
- A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
- The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
- The extraction of a root from a given power.
- Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
- A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
- A turning movement, especially of the body.
- The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
- The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
noun
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- a meeting arranged in advance
- a mutual promise to marry
- the act of giving someone a job
- employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
- contact by fitting together
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
noun
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
verb
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
noun
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- a disagreement or argument about something important
verb
noun
- A coordinated group of artillery weapons.
- The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
- Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.
- The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.
- A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.
- An array of similar things.
- The catcher and the pitcher together
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
noun
- A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- A piece of residential land; a plot.
- Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan surveys and (historical) American land grants.
- A sequence of rock layers.
- A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- A right inverse.
- A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
verb
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
noun
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- a branch of knowledge
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- extensive tract of level open land
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land
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noun
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