squaretail
(squaretail)
Princeton's WordNet
sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters
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square
Webster Dictionary
an instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc
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quadratic
Webster Dictionary
of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square
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biquadrate
Webster Dictionary
the fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4
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are
Webster Dictionary
the unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards
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acre
Webster Dictionary
a piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English
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parsons table
(ˈpɑr sə nɪdʒ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a square or rectangular table with square legs extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
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square
(ɛər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
having the form of a square and designated by a unit of linear measurement forming a side of the square:
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brigantine
(ˈbrɪg ənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail and square upper sails.
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skysail
(ˈskaɪˌseɪl;)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in a square-rigged vessel) a light square sail next above the royal.
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tangram
(ˈtæŋ grəm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to form a great variety of other figures.
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brigantine
Webster Dictionary
a two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail
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quadrate
Webster Dictionary
a plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square
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centare
Webster Dictionary
a measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards
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perch
Webster Dictionary
in land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre
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carpenter's square
(carpenter's square)
Princeton's WordNet
a steel square used by carpenters; larger than a try square
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square
Webster Dictionary
the product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2
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rood
(rud)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a unit of square measure equal to one square rod (25.3 sq. m).
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squinch
Webster Dictionary
a small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon
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sabin
(ˈseɪ bɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a unit of sound absorption, equal to the absorption of one square foot (929 square centimeters) of a perfectly absorptive surface.
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hardy
Webster Dictionary
a blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole
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em
Webster Dictionary
the portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type
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sea eagle
Webster Dictionary
any one of several species of fish-eating eagles of the genus Haliaeetus and allied genera, as the North Pacific sea eagle. (H. pelagicus), which has white shoulders, head, rump, and tail; the European white-tailed eagle (H. albicilla); and the Indian white-tailed sea eagle, or fishing eagle (Polioaetus ichthyaetus). The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles
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squadron
Webster Dictionary
primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square
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platoon
Webster Dictionary
formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square
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spur
Webster Dictionary
a projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage
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lambert
(ˈlæm bərt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the cgs unit of luminance or brightness, equivalent to 0.32 candles per square centimeter and equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface emitting or reflecting one lumen per square centimeter.
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tenacity
Webster Dictionary
the greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture
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sesquiplicate
Webster Dictionary
subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::Ãb3:Ãb'3.
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quarto
Webster Dictionary
originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size
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