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Square can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.

square used as a noun:

  1. A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.
    "I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.—Kazimir Malevich"
  2. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
    "There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. - [http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/The_Carpenter_s_Square-Hand_Tools-A2046.html The Carpenter's Square]"
  3. An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
    "You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square. NewsRadio"
  4. Anything, such as tiles or cut pieces of material, primarily defined by being square in shape.
    "You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces."
  5. The second power of a number, value, term or expression.
    "64 is the square of 8."
  6. A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s
    "Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!"
  7. The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
    "Enter your account number followed by a square."
  8. The central area of a cricket field, containing several pitches laid out next to one another - only one being used at a time.
    "An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square."
  9. A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 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.
    "2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]"
  10. A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
  11. A mortarboard
  12. A square meal.
    "Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day."
  13. A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

square used as a verb:

  1. To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
    "The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared."
  2. To resolve.
    "John can square this question up for us."
  3. Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
  4. To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same [[area] as.
    "square the circle"

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

square used as an adjective:

  1. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
  2. At right angles to.
  3. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
    "square metre"
  4. Honest; straightforward.
    "It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day."
  5. Fair.
    "I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair."
  6. Socially conventional; boring.
  7. in line with the batsman's popping crease.
  8. Correctly aligned with respect to something else

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

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What type of word is square?

As detailed above, 'square' can be a noun, a verb or an adjective. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.—Kazimir Malevich
  2. Noun usage: There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. - [http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/The_Carpenter_s_Square-Hand_Tools-A2046.html The Carpenter's Square]
  3. Noun usage: You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square. NewsRadio
  4. Noun usage: You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
  5. Noun usage: 64 is the square of 8.
  6. Noun usage: Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
  7. Noun usage: Enter your account number followed by a square.
  8. Noun usage: An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
  9. Noun usage: 2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]
  10. Noun usage: 2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]
  11. Noun usage: Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
  12. Verb usage: The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
  13. Verb usage: John can square this question up for us.
  14. Verb usage: These results just don't square.
  15. Verb usage: square the circle
  16. Adjective usage: square metre
  17. Adjective usage: square mile
  18. Adjective usage: It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
  19. Adjective usage: I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of square are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of square, and guess at its most common usage.

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Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

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