What's the difference between square and straight?

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.

Straight


Definition:

  • (a.) A variant of Strait, a.
  • (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.
  • (superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.
  • (superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
  • (superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
  • (superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
  • (superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
  • (adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
  • (n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
  • (v. t.) To straighten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
  • (3) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
  • (4) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
  • (5) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
  • (6) Both sets of experiments revealed a straight linear relationship between the dose of VC and the % foci area induced.
  • (7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
  • (8) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
  • (9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
  • (10) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
  • (11) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
  • (12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (13) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
  • (14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
  • (15) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
  • (16) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
  • (17) When plotted against [Ca]o on a double log scale, the above relation yielded a straight line with a slope of 1.0.
  • (18) The torque versus rotation curves can be divided into two straight regions and two transition zones.
  • (19) Its middle, straight portion (between 2.30 and 3.30 microns sarcomere spacings) extrapolated to zero tension at 3.49 microns sarcomere length.
  • (20) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.