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square-shaped

square-shaped

1 1.2
Having four equal sides and four corners
  • adjective
  • /ˈskwɛrˌʃeɪpt/
translation icon : cuadrado
  • The scoreboard will contain four large screens: two rectangular-shaped displays that will face the east and west seating areas and a pair of square-shaped screens that will face the north and south ends of the bowl.
  • square-shaped box

Bit of a weird one, a square shaped structure on Mars.

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Examples

  • The painting in the gallery is framed in a large square-shaped frame that draws everyone's attention.

  • The first piece is square-shaped with a protruding center jack.

    The Second Arrival (1998)

  • Framed high in the center of an otherwise blank wall is a large square-shaped box-like design that begins to move.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Mrs. Cope, a short, square-shaped woman probably in her late seventies, her hair a dark-chocolate color, met us at the front door.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • All your other furniture looks fine to me, but you might consider a larger, square-shaped ottoman and some colorful throw pillows.

    Blog text (25)

  • In the first step, a square-shaped chuck makes contact with a melt of silicon and pulls away after a thin wafer has been formed on its surface.

    Blog text (23)

  • They were passing between a pair of square-shaped mounds when a man stepped out from around the corner of one of the hillocks and blocked their way.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • When he gazed through the square-shaped window of the first door on the left, he saw a narrow room with a row of unevenly spaced curtain partitions, presumably separating patients.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • He designed a square-shaped garden that maximizes space and provides a cozy feeling.

  • The box contained a square-shaped piece of cake, perfectly cut for sharing.

Synonyms

rectangular
vssquare-shaped
28 3.2

Having four straight sides and four right angles

requires all four sides equal as well as right angles
squared
vssquare-shaped
2.3

A shape with four equal sides and four right angles

describes having that four-sided form regardless of how it was formed

Antonyms

circular
84 2.8

Having the shape of a circle

How Square

square-shaped
1 1.2
rectangular
28 3.2
rounded
1 2.4

Surface Forms

square-shaped positive

Morphology

square-shaped = square + shape (transparent) = square + shape + ed

The meaning is directly recoverable from 'square' plus 'shape' with the participial form 'shaped', yielding 'shaped like a square'.

Etymology

Square-shaped comes from square, a word that originally meant 'four' because a square has four equal sides, and the ending -shaped means 'in the form of', so square-shaped simply means 'having the shape of a square'.