different between square vs level

English

Etymology

From Middle English square, sqware, squyre; from Old French esquarre, esquerre, (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- +? quadro, from quadrus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /skw??(?)/, /skw??(?)/, enPR: skwâr
• (US) IPA^(key): /skw??/, enPR: skwâr
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

square (plural squares)

2. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
   • 1927, Kazimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World

     I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.

3. Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
   1. A cell in a grid.

   2. A square piece, part, or surface, such as a square of glass.
   3. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
   4. (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
   5. (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
4. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.

   Synonyms: steel square, framing square, carpenter's square

   1. (figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
5. 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 statue of Alexander the Seventh stands in the large square of the town.

   • 1995 October 10, NewsRadio, season 2 episode 3:

     You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square.

   Synonyms: piazza, plaza

   1. (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.

      Synonym: place

6. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.

7. (military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
   • 1818, quoted in Christopher Kelly, History of the French Revolution and of the Wars produced by that Memorable Event

     The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly charged our squares, their cannon opening chasms; but the British infantry, though greatly diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable to the last.

   • 1897, Henry Newbolt, Vitae Lampada

     The sand of the desert is sodden red,— / Red with the wreck of a square that broke;— / The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, / And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, page 144:

     After 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.

8. (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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mainstreamer

9. (Britain) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

   Synonyms: hash, sharp, (US) pound sign

10. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.

11. (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.
    • 2006, Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared", 21 June 2006 [3]

      Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square

    • 2007, Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [4]

      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.

12. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
13. (academia) A mortarboard
14. (colloquial, US) A square meal.

15. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
    • 1594-1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

      They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.
16. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

    • We live not on the square with such as these.

17. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
18. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
19. (slang) Cigarette.
20. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.

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Descendants

• ? Welsh: sgwâr

Adjective

square (comparative squarer, superlative squarest)

1. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
2. Forming a right angle.

   Synonyms: orthogonal, perpendicular, normal

   Antonym: crooked

   1. (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.
3. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.

   Coordinate terms: cubic, linear

4. Honest; straightforward.

   Synonyms: above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight

   • 1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey

     I am not very good at analysing things, but I felt that she talked a little uncomfortably and with a suspicion of effort, smiled rather conventionally, and was obviously glad to go. These things seem trifling enough to repeat, but I had throughout the faint feeling that everything was not square.

5. Fair.

6. Even; tied

8. (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.

   Synonym: bourgeois

9. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
10. Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
11. Hearty; vigorous.

    • By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.

12. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.

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Verb

square (third-person singular simple present squares, present participle squaring, simple past and past participle squared)

1. (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
   1. (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.

   2. (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.

3. To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
4. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
5. (transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.

6. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
7. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
8. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Charity

     No works shall find acceptance […] that square not truly with the Scripture plan.

9. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
10. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)

11. To form with four sides and four right angles.
12. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
    • 2002, William Boyd: Any Human Heart:

      Everything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.

13. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
14. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
    • 1697, Thomas Creech, The five books of M. Manilius containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology, done into English verse

      the icy Goat, the Crab that square the Scales

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cubic
• quadrilateral
• rectangle
• rhombus

Further reading

• square on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English square. Doublet of équerre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwa?/

Noun

square m (plural squares)

1. small public garden in the middle of a square

   Le square de la tour Saint-Jacques.

Further reading

• “square” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• arques, raques

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sqware, squyre, squyer, sqyre, squar, sware

Etymology

From Old French esquarre, esquerre (modern French équerre), from Vulgar Latin *exquadra, from Latin ex- +? quadro, from quadrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwa?r(?)/, /?skw??r(?)/, /?skwi?r(?)/

Noun

square (plural squares)

1. A square (tool used to ensure a right angle)
2. A square (equilateral rectangle); a square plot of land.
3. One of the edges of a square.

Descendants

• English: square
• Scots: square

References

• “squ?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

English

Etymology

From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate.

The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?l?v.?l/
• Rhymes: -?v?l
• Hyphenation: lev?el

Adjective

level (comparative leveler or leveller, superlative levelest or levellest)

1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.

3. Unvaried in frequency.

4. Unvaried in volume.

5. Calm.

6. In the same position or rank.
7. Straightforward; direct; clear.
   • 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma

     a very plain and level account

8. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
9. (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
   • 1891, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period

     Intonation or tone is either level, rising, or falling, marked respectively

10. (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.

Antonyms

• tilted
• unbalanced
• uneven

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Noun

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

1. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

2. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.

3. Degree or amount.

4. Achievement or qualification.

5. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
6. (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.

   Synonyms: stage, zone, world

7. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.

8. A floor of a multi-storey building.

9. (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     The troops grow mutinous—the revenue fails—
     There’s something rotten in us—for the level
     Of the State slopes, its very bases topple,
     The boldest turn their backs upon themselves!

10. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? German: Level
• ? Irish: leibhéal
• ? Japanese: ??? (reberu)

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on newsgroup posting style

Verb

level (third-person singular simple present levels, present participle (US) leveling or levelling, simple past and past participle (US) leveled or levelled)

1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.

   • He levels mountains and he raises plains.

3. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.

4. To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
   • 1592, John Stow, The Annales of England

     Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, levelled a quarrel out of a crossbow.
5. To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
   • 1809, William Ross (Jr.), Abridgement of the laws of Scotland relating to hunting [etc], page 60:

     If the right of killing salmon belong exclusively to the King, and consequently to his donatories, why has not the Legislature secured the right by levelling penalties against such as should encroach upon it [...] ?

   • 1978, Parliamentary Debates of the New Zealand House of Representatives, page 4955:

     How can the Minister reconcile the first statement with the clause, when he is in fact levelling punishment at the woman and not at the errant father [...] ?

   • 1995, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the [Great British] House of Lords:

     There is no purpose in levelling fines because they would be merely paid from the £1.8 billion which the BBC collects.

   • 2007, Mary Jacoby, EU investigators endorse charges against Intel, Wall Street Journal Europe, 17 January, page 32, column 5:

     Ultimately, Ms. Kroes [European Union Antitrust Commissioner] could level a fine and order Intel to change its business practices.

6. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
7. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.

8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.

   • For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes.

9. (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• level on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• level in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• level in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English level, from Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?v?l]
• Hyphenation: lè?vêl

Noun

level (first-person possessive levelku, second-person possessive levelmu, third-person possessive levelnya)

1. (colloquial) level.

   Synonyms: tingkatan, tataran, lapisan

Further reading

• “level” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.