( Macquarie Bank) (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares ' of living space plus over 13 '''squares''' of decking area on 3 sides and 17 ' squares of garage and workshop downstairs. 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.Ģ006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. (real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie.(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.Īn ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.(British) The symbol # on a telephone hash.Įnter your account number followed by a square.Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square ! (slang) A socially conventional person typically associated with the 1950s.144:Īfter disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares, during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics. * 1990, ( Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p.
(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square. An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.There are so many uses for the square, in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.