What's the difference between roundabout and square?

Roundabout


Definition:

  • (a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
  • (a.) Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
  • (n.) A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
  • (n.) A dance performed in a circle.
  • (n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
  • (n.) A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
  • (2) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
  • (3) Continue straight on at two roundabouts from where the pavement makes its way alongside Salisbury Crags to reach an obvious grassy path.
  • (4) "If you had a platoon of cyclists coming all at once, which tends to be how traffic moves, and they have priority over traffic trying to get off the roundabout, that could lock up the roundabout very quickly.
  • (5) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
  • (6) It has such a large number of highways and roundabouts and highway roads.
  • (7) A lorry driver on the A706 was killed after a vehicle overturned on top of two cars at the Bogton roundabout in Bathgate, West Lothian, at 8.10am on Thursday.
  • (8) It has a deliberately roundabout strategy that draws you in slowly – and then rewards you so thrillingly that you forget it took a little time.
  • (9) By the same token, Mozilla’s roundabout description of its DRM plan also echoes some of the W3C’s not-really-DRM claims.
  • (10) And so Silicon Roundabout has metastasised into Tech City, possibly because everyone feels a bit silly saying Silicon Roundabout .
  • (11) The US, Britain and leading figures including Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general, have already made clear, in a roundabout way, that Kenyatta's victory would not be welcome.
  • (12) With fat silvery frames wrapping around groups of floors in a vain attempt to break up the sheer bulk, it looks like a stack of hard drives or the back of a computer server – an accidental nod to the nearby Silicon Roundabout.
  • (13) Rebel fighters occupied a key roundabout called Zafaran, west of the downtown area in the coastal city, 250 miles (400km) south-east of Tripoli.
  • (14) In August last year, UK Methane announced that it was about to apply for planning consent to commence test-drilling for gas in another unlikely location: a patch of local land next to a roundabout on the Bristol ring-road.
  • (15) Protesters, who were brutally removed from their peaceful anti-government site at Manama's Pearl roundabout last month, claim that there has since been a systematic campaign of repression by Sunni Bahraini security forces, backed by forces from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
  • (16) At malignant tumors of the external genitals (3 animals), besides all the pathways of the lymph outflow mentioned above, the femoral-crural roundabout pathway appears, it is connected with the lymphatic collector of the crus.
  • (17) Still, Dughan took them roundabout ways, through Blythborough, on the A145 towards Uggeshall, past still diggers where roads were being widened.
  • (18) Pro-reform demonstrations at Pearl roundabout were followed by marches that paralysed Manama's financial district and one that headed for the royal palaces in al-Rifa'a.
  • (19) The protesters' demands have grown since seven were killed on St Valentine's Day when police first tried to clear Pearl roundabout.
  • (20) 2001: new plans are made for a £65m Australian-designed Denton Corker Marshall visitor centre, east of the stones at Countess roundabout.

Square


Definition:

  • (n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.
  • (n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
  • (n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
  • (n.) A square piece or fragment.
  • (n.) A pane of glass.
  • (n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
  • (n.) One hundred superficial feet.
  • (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
  • (n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
  • (n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
  • (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
  • (n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
  • (n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
  • (a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
  • (a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
  • (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
  • (a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
  • (a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
  • (a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
  • (a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
  • (a.) At 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.
  • (n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.
  • (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
  • (n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
  • (n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
  • (n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
  • (n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
  • (n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
  • (n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
  • (v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
  • (v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
  • (v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (2) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (3) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (4) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
  • (5) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
  • (6) At 1 month the rate of production of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha per square millimeter of surface area of experimental segments was normal.
  • (7) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
  • (8) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
  • (9) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (10) The feasibility of estimating these parameters, demonstrated by the present study, suggests that a recursive least squares estimation procedure could be used to recover the time variation of each parameter during exercise stress testing of subjects with normal or nearly normal gas exchange.
  • (11) Concentrations of DLIS were detectable in significantly more (58.3%) of the 12 CHF patients (group A) who were not receiving digoxin than in the 22 normal volunteers tested (13.6%) (P less than 0.05 by both chi-square and Fisher's exact test).
  • (12) According to the duration of filtered QRS (fQRS), to the voltage of root mean square of the terminal 40 ms (RMS 40) and to the duration of low amplitude terminal components of the sinus cycles, ventricular late potentials were detected in nine out of 29 subjects.
  • (13) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
  • (14) The overall median density was 123 cells per field, which corresponds to 6,950 cells per square mm.
  • (15) The structure of Mn(III) superoxide dismutase (Mn(III)SOD) from Thermus thermophilus, a tetramer of chains 203 residues in length, has been refined by restrained least-squares methods.
  • (16) SSR was evoked by square wave electric stimulation through a pair of surface electrodes placed on the unilateral forearm.
  • (17) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (18) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
  • (19) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
  • (20) By comparison in the Netherlands, where there is a better technical training provision, every secondary school is built with an additional 650 square metres of non-academic training space; an investment of more than £1.5m per school.” The Association of School and College Leaders criticised the absence of more funding for students studying for A-levels.