squared

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of square. Use this form for something that already happened.

   The carpenter squared the table legs before gluing them together.

   He squared his shoulders and stepped forward to speak.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Multiplied by itself once, so four squared means four times four.

   Like the area of a square: if each side is four, the square holds four times four, or sixteen.

   Three squared is nine.

   Any number squared gives a result that is never negative.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Covered with a grid of small squares, like the paper used in math class.

   Like the paper in a math notebook that is full of little boxes.

   We used squared paper to draw the bar chart.

   The math book had squared pages for plotting graphs.

   Similargridded

   Oppositeplain, blank

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4. 4
   adjectivein compounds

   Sitting on squares of a named color on a game board, like a chess piece can.

   Like a player who can only ever stand on the red tiles of a checkered floor.

   Each player starts with one light-squared bishop and one dark-squared bishop.

   Her dark-squared bishop controlled the long diagonal all game.

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