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Thesaurus: quadrate

Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

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  1. a. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
  2. a. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
  3. a. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
  4. a. Squared; suited; correspondent.
  5. a. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
  6. a. An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.
  7. a. The quadrate bone.
  8. a. To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
  9. v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  10. adj. having four sides and four angles
  11. n. a cubelike object
  12. n. a square-shaped object