Quadrate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A square or cube.
  • n. An approximately square or cubic area, space, or object.
  • n. Zoology A bone or cartilaginous structure of the skull, joining the upper and lower jaws in birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • adj. Having four sides and four angles; square or rectangular.
  • adj. Zoology Of or being the quadrate bone or cartilage.
  • verb-intransitive. Archaic To correspond; agree.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
  • adj. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
  • adj. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
  • adj. Squared; suited; correspondent.
  • n. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
  • n. An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
  • n. The quadrate bone.
  • v. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
  • v. To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  • v. To square (in various senses).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
  • adj. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
  • adj. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
  • adj. Squared; suited; correspondent.
  • n. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The quadrate bone.
  • verb-intransitive. To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
  • v. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having four equal and parallel sides; square; arranged in a square; four-sided.
  • Square by being the product of a number multiplied into itself.
  • Square, as typifying justice according to the Pythagoreans; well-balanced.
  • Fitted; suited; applicable.
  • In heraldry, of square form, or having square corners: thus, a cross quadrate in the center has four rectangular projections in its reëntrant angles. Also quarter-angled.
  • The quadratus lumborum, or square muscle of the loins, lying on each side of the lumbar region, between the lower ribs and the pelvis.
  • The square muscle of the chin, which draws down the lower lip: commonly called depressor labii inferioris.
  • The quadratus nictitantis, one of the two muscles (the other being the pyramidal) on the back of the eyeball of birds, etc., subserving the movements of the nictitating membrane, or third eyelid. See third cut under eye.
  • n. A plane figure with four equal sides and four equal angles; a square.
  • n. In astrology, an aspect of two heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
  • n. In zoology and anatomy: The os quadratum, or quadrate bone (see I.); the os pedicellatum, or pedicellate bone; the suspensorium, or suspender bone of the mandible, or that one which is in connection with the lower jaw, in vertebrates below mammals.
  • n. Any quadrate muscle.
  • n. In musical notation: Same as natural, ♮: so called because derived from B quadratum (which see, under B).
  • n. Same as breve, 1.
  • To square; adjust; trim, as a gun on its carriage.
  • To divide into four equal parts: quarter.
  • To square; fit; suit; agree: followed by with.
  • n. A quarter; a quadrant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a cubelike object
  • adj. having four sides and four angles
  • n. a square-shaped object
  • Equivalent
    square   
    Verb Form
    quadrated    quadrates    quadrating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    note    aspect   
    Form
    quadrated    quadrating   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    square    even    balanced    equal    exact