I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a decent meal/a square meal ( also a proper meal British English ) (= with enough good food to satisfy you )
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I hadn’t had a decent meal in days.
a square chin
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A square chin may be taken as a sign of a stubborn character.
a square of chocolate (= a small square piece )
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I only ate one small square of chocolate.
round/oval/square
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Her face was round and jolly.
round/square etc in shape
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The dining room was square in shape.
set square
square bracket
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The words in square brackets should be deleted.
square dance
square knot
square root
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The square root of nine is three.
square yards
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an area of 9,000 square yards
straighten/square your shoulders (= stand with your shoulders straight, in a determined way )
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She squared her shoulders and knocked on the door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
block
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A square block of flats was almost finished; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper.
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I soon learn there are six other resident hotels within a few square blocks .
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Second, you could nail up corner blocks , those square blocks of pine with a an embossed circle in the middle.
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With shops filling nearly four square blocks , the walk will be invigorating but not lengthy.
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We had in mind to put in a square block of an indoor amusement park and we had it all designed.
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It had 300, 000 inhabitants; its population could fit inside a few square blocks of Manhattan.
bracket
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The square bracket shows the position of the insert.
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The square brackets reveal the position and length of the inserts.
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Note: Practitioners must decide whether they wish to include the words in square brackets .
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Unless otherwise specified, all fields have a maximum length of 20 characters, including colons, square brackets , etc.
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These are the plus, the stroke, the colon, the square brackets and the double colon.
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Remember that it must be 20 characters maximum, including square brackets .
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The numbers in square brackets are the absolute numbers, given to illustrate the incidence of both in the data.
dance
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Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.
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Then everything reverses, as in a square dance .
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It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance .
foot
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By 1811 this nursery had over 30,000 square feet of glass.
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When Bill and Melanie Parsons began designing their house, they figured they had 2, 200 square feet to play with.
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Any personnel manager who has three or four square feet of desk space can install the equipment.
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He pointed out that, with 20,000 square feet of space, the store can repair 20 tractors at a time.
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The 800,000 square foot plant is being leased back to the management team.
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The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet .
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This 64,000 square foot office block went for £3m.
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Its tallest building is 14 stories, while the two largest have nearly 500, 000 square feet each.
footage
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Software houses have been slow to response but the square footage sold to date is reportedly ahead of schedule.
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That way you could make do with a tenth the square footage .
inch
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This is rather over 2000 tons per square inch .
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Rats have less than a square inch of cortex, less than humans by a factor of 500.
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You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.
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In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.
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Pluto and Lawrence &038; Wishart were there, all 18 square inches of them.
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Each pad, about a square inch , treats half a cubic foot.
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That means its print head can squirt 1, 440, 000 little dots of ink on each square inch of paper.
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He looked me over carefully, appraising every visible square inch .
jaw
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Her sunken face, straight thin mouth, and square jaw spelled suffering and dedication as well as determination.
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He was handsome, coffee colored, with close-cropped black hair, dark eyes, a square jaw , big hands.
kilometre
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An array a square kilometre in size should see neutrino sources if there are any, Halzen says.
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The densities per square kilometre of its human and livestock populations are greater than anywhere else in the continent.
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It has more cars per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world.
kilometres
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Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete.
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In 5700 the principality of Piedmont measured about 16, 500 square kilometres in extent.
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In total, the seven states lost 1,003 square kilometres of forest area and gained 492 square kilometres.
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The Pantanal, at 140,000 square kilometres , is the world's largest wetland area.
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So far palaeontologists have only scratched the surface of a formation that Rauhut estimates covers at least several hundred square kilometres .
matrix
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A square matrix having zeros everywhere except in the principal diagonal is called a diagonal matrix and is clearly symmetric.
meal
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Indeed he often gave them whatever was in the till, feeling they looked in need of a square meal .
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So a catastrophic drop to 5 percent of its pre-deluge invertebrate quantities still provided them with three square meals a day.
metre
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It comes in 16 plain colours and costs £13 per square metre .
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This is the amount that beams on average on to each square metre , even in cloudy, wintry Britain.
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Two years later their numbers were still no higher than 2,000 per square metre .
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Locusts can swarm in densities of 15,000 per square metre .
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The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.
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The project's treatments cost as little as 54p per square metre .
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Order the terrazzo by the square metre .
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The new 680 square metre hall will offer improved facilities.
metres
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The central plaza of this city once covered 176,000 square metres .
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We are planning to launch a test sail of 400 square metres , by the end of next year.
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To achieve a balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide, one human needed 8 square metres of exposed Chlorella.
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The algae tanks were stacked so they took less than 8 square metres floor space.
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The new plan measures 10,554 m2 of which only 8,322 square metres will be usable space.
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Linear measurements may be given either in imperial or metric units, but area is normally quoted in square metres .
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Only 10% of the total area, or approx. 1,500 square metres will be dedicated to displaying works of art.
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The new machine is capable of producing 800-1000 square metres daily and should be operational before the Christmas holidays.
mile
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The Exe Vale group served a largely rural area covering 2,000 square miles with a population of 600,000.
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Below us was the battle zone, 464 square miles of urban decay, whose every street was a border to some one.
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The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
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They filmed every aspect of life in an area of twenty-four square miles of north Oxfordshire.
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The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.
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A huge, 150 square mile , national forest is now in the process of being planted in the East Midlands.
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Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles .
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They chose an area of twenty-four square miles in north Oxfordshire and spent a whole spring filming every aspect of life there.
miles
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The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
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Millions of us, natives and refugees, lived in those few hundred square miles .
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The Survey was under constant pressure to cover as many square miles of ground as possible every year.
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Walkup counts among his first-year triumphs the annexation of 26 square miles of state trust land on the city's southeast side.
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A decision which would produce an all-Highland single-tier authority covering 10,000 square miles may seem contradictory to that objective.
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Since Thursday, he said, Coast Guard cutters and smaller boats have criss-crossed 17, 500 square miles .
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Fifty thousand square miles we covered.
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However, when magnified over millions of square miles of ocean, the energy forces affecting the atmosphere can be substantial.
room
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Dinner in Luigi's, coffee and then later red wine in Hudson's large square room .
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The interior was a large, square room .
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It was big, square room with a polished floor and a high ceiling.
root
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The distribution remains normal but the standard deviation decreases as the square root of n, the sample size.
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Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.
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Therefore, taking the square root of this measure we get the correlation coefficient; i.e.. 11.
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Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.
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Excluding the few outliers, we can calculate the square root of the average squared error over all subjects for each repetition.
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A number of early computers had an instruction to extract a square root , but nowadays this operation is achieved by software.
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Does this have a square root ?
shoulder
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The kids are all scrubbed and coiffed, backpacks fitted firmly on square shoulders .
tower
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This square tower has circular turrets on each side, the whole making a fortified place of retreat.
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To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church.
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There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.
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After being severely damaged in a storm, the spire was replaced with a square tower in 1969.
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It was a simple drawing of a square tower , standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
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At Brantford rounded ends were combined with a square tower .
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The square tower is rib vaulted and its windows give good light to the cathedral.
yard
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A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.
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It seemed that there was not a square yard on the field free from fire.
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Sadler's used 1,900 square yards - made more impervious to the gas by an inner coat of rubber.
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I found where they had bedded down as a group, within about 50 square yards .
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You can buy them in boxes of four to cover an area of a square yard .
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The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 square yards .
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A carpet costing around £33 per square yard may seem an unromantic substitute for a honeymoon.
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All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
win (sth)/beat sb fair and square
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a square backyard
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a square corner
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It's important to be square with clients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was seated in a deep armchair with flat, square sides.
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In other words, Washington must remain urgently concerned about every square inch of the planet.
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Rolling white sand dunes surrounded by a large oasis of swaying palm trees with a square fort in the middle.
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Roy Fredericks always favoured the square cut.
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The floor is only ten inches square so you can't sit down or squat in it.
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The pair moved down the centre line and halted square and dead centre.
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The three-bedroom home is about 2, 500 square feet.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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At the end of the street, there's this big square with loads of people in it.
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When she surfaced it was to find that they were back at Piazzale Roma, the big square thronging as usual.
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He has a big square head, shaven almost bald; lots of gold teeth.
black
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When a player reaches a black square , they must answer three questions to reach Number 10.
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Below: A chance configuration of black squares .
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The black squares at the bottom are keys that can be pressed.
central
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Villereal was charming, and busy too, with its narrow streets and central square with a timbered-covered market.
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Urban scavengers have been banned from bagging doves and pigeons in the central squares .
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Mosaic C from North Hill and mosaic 7 both have flowers with elongated petals in their central squares .
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All three pavements appear to have had rosettes in the small squares which lie tangent to the central square.
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Black wishes to keep some central dark squares under control.
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The prefecture buildings on Kinkala's central square are also full of displaced persons.
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Secondly, the four-strand guilloche which encloses the central square is well drawn, but slightly inferior to the chain-guilloche.
dark
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However, Black's influence over the dark squares should be sufficient to maintain the balance.
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I looked at the dark blue square of the window.
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It was already dark but the square glowed with marquee brilliance, and none more brilliant than the Empire's.
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The rest of the dark square of floor is smooth and bare.
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The resulting dark squares and rectangles on the images are stone moats and reflecting pools around the temples.
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Half way up the wall there was a slightly darker square set into the blackness.
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Sam and Rose looked at each other and at the dark , empty square .
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Black wishes to keep some central dark squares under control.
fair
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But she loved him fair and square .
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I was only warning you fair and square .
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It had paid for its water, fair and square , and it wanted to let the valley survive.
inverse
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This volume property is characteristic of the inverse square law; it holds for no other law of force.
large
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Roll out half to a large square , place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing.
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I sat down in the chair and began sewing them together until they formed a large square .
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It was a large open square with low hedges enclosing six small gardens with bush-like trees.
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He had a large square head, strong features, the worried look of a rustic crossing streets in the capital.
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As the two small squares grow so the trio reaches a peak of energy and declines into a single large square.
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They came to a large square , dazzling white from swirling snowdrifts.
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When the drawer was open she took out a large square package wrapped in newspaper and held it out for him.
little
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I stared at the innocent little square of foil on the counter.
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The set came equipped with chemicals, minerals, and various treated papers all in little square bottles.
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All the shops were closed and there was a Sunday peace in the little square .
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Their job, as they perceived it, was to fill little squares with people.
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The little square was relatively sheltered, and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant, muffled roar.
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Flavia was there so early that she ran into Therese in the little square where people left their cars.
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Divide the square into 49 little squares with a knife by marking six evenly-spaced lines vertically and six horizontally.
main
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Then he hurried away towards the main square .
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The Handbook suggested a Ricardo Quispe Mamani who also had a small restaurant on the main square .
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The main square holds the three buildings of importance.
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Participants said the city's main square was filled to capacity.
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It's across the main square in the town centre.
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In many towns and villages the local population gathers round the main square , or church.
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To park the bikes we had to strike a deal with the children in the main square .
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The mayor of Bucharest on Aug. 28 declared an indefinite ban on all meetings and demonstrations in central Bucharest's main squares .
open
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Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square .
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My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.
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For this, it had to be given lungs, in the shape of open spaces, squares , parks and gardens.
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It was a large open square with low hedges enclosing six small gardens with bush-like trees.
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The monastery takes the form of an open square in which the two churches stand.
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He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees.
proportional
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They are also cost-effective, as the cost of a missile is roughly proportional to the square of its range.
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At speeds low compared with light, the temporal retardation is proportional to the square of your speed.
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Because the energy of a moving body is proportional to the square of the velocity.
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The increase of confinement time with radius follows approximately a diffusion law-confinement time proportional to the square of the radius.
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The centripetal force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the centre.
public
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In the presence of a large crowd in a public square the messengers shouted vulgar abuse at Vuk.
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Simultaneously, he said, public places like squares , parks and plazas would be liberally placed where people could congregate.
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Yet for a work in a public square this is an interesting aspect of art criticism.
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A focal point of the development will be a public square created in front of the main entrance.
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He sets out; he arrives at the public square , which is crowded with an eager excited throng.
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That was the same year in which Admiral Kolchak was executed in the main public square .
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One young man, unable to tolerate the thought, burned himself alive in a public square .
small
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The horse turned into a courtyard where he slowed down, trotting round the small square .
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It is carved into small squares and rolled up inside a thin wheat pancake with hoisin sauce and spring onions.
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Then each Girl put her heels into a small square on the stage floor, connecting up with the power source.
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She folded and refolded her Kleenex into smaller and smaller squares .
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After eating a small square of chocolate he became very aggressive and rushed around the house frantically banging doors and kicking furniture.
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The main temple complex of Angkor Wat is readily visible as a small square bounded with black.
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A rectangle is subdivided into one large and two small squares such that the overlap is constant width.
tiny
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Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls, their tiny squares making up life-size portraits.
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Jell-O with tiny square pieces of fruit in it.
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Though the steady march of grey clouds, a tiny square of blue emerges.
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Dennis cut his veal assiduously into tiny squares and piled them into a pyramid that he then inhaled in a single gulp.
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Margaret fell in love with a muted green-based carpet with a pattern of tiny red squares woven around the borders.
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A wriggling snake moves one tiny square at a time, changing direction as you press buttons.
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Flora and I were walking through the palm grove, on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley.
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Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square .
white
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Walk carefully, keep to the white squares .
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Glover had closed his eyes and seen white squares burned into his lids.
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She had religiously adhered to the white squares .
■ NOUN
foot
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The compellingly simple design of six foot square of sheer glass frightens me.
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The room was about twelve foot square and lit by a fluorescent tube running almost the full length of the ceiling.
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In Leeds in the early nineteenth century the average cottage was fifteen foot square .
market
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The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square .
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For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square , now a porcelain shop.
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The students give it liveliness: motorbikes in the market square and a bit of noise in the bars.
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It combines the delightful atmosphere of an Oxford market square with every modern amenity for comfortable and practical living today.
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Those who arrived late had to listen to the Archbishop's address relayed over loudspeakers placed around the market square .
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Stephen took particular note of it after he had taken Lyn to the Mootwalk and parked the car in the market square .
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It must be the market square , Theda decided, glancing about and finding odd shapes that looked like empty barrows.
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Jenna was still smiling as she pulled into the market square and locked her car.
metre
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He finds 48-50 distinct genotypes present per metre square .
mile
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There are far more kangaroos per square mile than humans.
town
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I was leaving an office in a busy New Town square .
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Nowadays, the battlefield is an opera stage, at Sebastiani Theatre on the town square .
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The old town square was filled with people and the jubilant sound of the marching band as performers juggled fire.
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In Fellini, the town square is never felt to be the social center of a community.
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Here the narrow streets lead to a town square shaded with trees.
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Surrounding the town square were numerous small buildings, including the courthouse.
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They jogged round a corner, and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat, Arizona.
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Try Bashford Court, across the street from the town square .
village
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There is a long promenade to stroll down, but the focal point of the resort is the village square .
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The village square has a fine pink and grey frontón, and promising-looking hotels.
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The central point is the village square and harbour, and there is also a very pleasant lakeside promenade.
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Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square .
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It has a large, imposing church in the recently modernized village square which is complete with fountain and aviary.
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When they stopped in the village square , Sergeant Adams gave them leave to sit down while officers went in search of billets.
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Ocobamba is a little village with a church, barracks and a village square .
■ VERB
cut
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Serve warm, cut into neat squares for tapas, or quarters if it is to be the centrepiece of the meal.
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Bake for 50 minutes. Cut into 2-inch squares .
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Still staring down, he began to cut another square of bread.
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Cool at room temperature and cut into squares .
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Pour into greased square pan and cool. Cut into 1-inch squares.
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Attach the post anchors to the posts, making sure the post bottoms are cut square and treated with extra wood preservative.
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Sprinkle with cheese. Cut into wedges or squares and separate slightly to have crisp edges.
enclose
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Secondly, the four-strand guilloche which encloses the central square is well drawn, but slightly inferior to the chain-guilloche.
fill
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You could then fill the left-hand square with a design and create a mirror image of the design in the right-hand square.
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Their job, as they perceived it, was to fill little squares with people.
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The Saturday morning market fills two huge squares in the town of Arras and locals also seek the bargains.
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The huge crowd proceeded from outside the church to fill the largest square in the city, Karl Marx Square.
form
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Less efficient is square packing where the centres of four adjacent spheres form a square.
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I sat down in the chair and began sewing them together until they formed a large square .
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It forms a perfect square , with five bays on every side with the huge segmental pediments above.
occupy
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A number of beautifully modelled playing pieces were now occupying some of the squares .
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Our plot occupied a compact square nested in a palm of earth on the eastern side of the river.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
3/9/10 etc squared
win (sth)/beat sb fair and square
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Have you been to the bank on the square ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arrange pheasant pieces on individual plates and place one of the polenta squares on the side of each serving.
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Check the saw blade with a square to make sure.
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One after another, they gather near the Stone County courthouse square .
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The Little Palace Theatre was situated in a side street running off Fellburn market square .
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They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin, for decency she supposed.
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When a player reaches a black square , they must answer three questions to reach Number 10.
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Yesterday, Mr Dubcek's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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He scrubbed the brightwork in the head, squared away his area, made up his rack.
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Everything seems squared away , she thinks.
off
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Screened porches were meant to have been added, squaring off the blocks of 100 flats for retired church folk.
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Raines retained Abner Burnett of Midland, and the two squared off for a legal battle.
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There are 7-8 distinctly flattened, finely rugose arm spines, with the tips squared off .
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Phil Gramm, against whom he will square off in the Louisiana caucuses next week, his strongest opponent.
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Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants, while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted.
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The winner will square off against Phelps, 38, in the November general election.
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Cut out your embryo bud as before, but this time squaring off the base rather than the top of the shield.
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His face was big and jowly and squared off .
up
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Does your memory square up with Jo's?
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He squared up his scholar's stoop and took another deep breath.
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More people want to eat meat and the two don't square up .
■ NOUN
circle
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The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once.
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This squaring of the circle is the hardest of their tasks.
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There is no sureness of touch, no deft ability to square circles as and when required.
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This is as difficult as trying to square a circle .
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Where are the leaders who can square this vicious circle ?
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The only way of squaring the circle to Moscow's satisfaction would be to send in troops.
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On his last point, Labour has manifestly failed to square the circle .
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Britain, ever the Atlanticist, tried to square the circle , and usually failed.
million
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The center handles 6, 000 high-altitude planes a day over seven states and more than 3 million square miles of ocean.
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Beacon will acquire 3. 3 million square feet of space, bringing its total portfolio to 10 million square feet.
shoulder
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Reagan went through the ceremonies like a President, shoulders squared , features composed, every gesture correct.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Braves beat the Twins and squared the World Series at two games each.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have no idea how Eva squared it with her husband, but she did.
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Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children.
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The confused events of the 450s and 460s are not easily squared with the literary image of the period purveyed by Sidonius.
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Then she squared her shoulders and headed indoors.
IV. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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We must be square in the middle of it.