(astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.
queers
queers
noun
plural of queer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of queer
queres
querns
querns
noun
plural of quern
quires
quires
noun
plural of quire
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quire
quirks
quirks
noun
plural of quirk
quirts
quirts
noun
plural of quirt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quirt
qurush
risque
risque
adj
(US) Alternative form of risqué
noun
Obsolete spelling of risk
roques
seqrch
square
square
adj
(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
(nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
(of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
Honest; straightforward; fair.
Hypernyms: rectangular, polygonal
Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
Shaped like a square (the polygon).
Solid, decent, substantial.
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
adv
Directly.
noun
(1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
(Britain) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
(Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
(academia) A mortarboard.
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
(colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
(figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
(military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
(often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 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.
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
(slang) Cigarette.
(slang, MLE) A well-defined core of a human body, a flat section from the fundament to the thoracic diaphragm.
A cell in a grid.
A square piece, part, or surface.
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
verb
(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
(nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
(rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
(transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
(transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
(transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
(transitive, intransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
(transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
To form with four sides and four right angles.
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
squark
squark
noun
(physics) A hypothetical supersymmetric counterpart to a quark, having a spin of zero instead of one-half.
squary
squary
adj
(UK, dialect) neat and compact
squier
squier
noun
Obsolete form of square.
squire
squire
noun
(UK, colloquial) Term of address to a male equal.
(historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
(obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
A male attendant on a great personage.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
verb
(transitive) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
(transitive) To attend as a squire.
squirk
squirl
squirl
noun
(US, dialect) A squirrel.
A flourish in handwriting.
squirm
squirm
noun
A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.
verb
To evade a question, an interviewer etc.
To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
squirr
squirr
verb
Alternative form of squir
squirt
squirt
noun
(UK, US, Australia, slang) A small child.
(hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
(informal) An act of urination.
(kayaking) A maneuver in which the boat is forced into a nearly vertical position.
(slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Female ejaculate.
A burst of noise.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
verb
(intransitive, of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
(intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
(kayaking) To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of the boat is forced nearly vertical.
(transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
(transitive, by extension) To emit, eject or excrete (something).
(transitive, figuratively, obsolete) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(transitive, of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.