In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
To play the game of cricket.
The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
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.
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.
A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
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.
Directly.
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