a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
someone who doesn't understand what is going on
the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon; "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
something approximating the shape of a square
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
raise to the second power
position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"
pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"
be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"
conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information"
making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month"
a detailed list of all the items in stock
(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory all books before the end of the year"