VERB
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make square
Square the circle
square the wood with a file - even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
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settle conclusively; come to terms
We finally settled the argument
How To Use square up In A Sentence
- And didn't it give you a warm glow to watch the new, improved Power of Three square up to the unconquered, unrepentant and increasingly unhinged Cole?
- He must square up to the reality of being out of work.
- Sharp and funny, this adaptation also sees Colin Firth and Hugh Grant square up for a comedy barney as love rivals.
- Square up the books to make them look neat.
- You are acquainted, of course, with the modern rule of giving the bastions a salient angle of fifteen degrees in excess of half the angle of the figure in all figures from the square up to the dodecagon? Fort Amity
- See how you square up to its finest exponents in a punishing half-marathon in Sardinia. Times, Sunday Times
- I have something to square up with you.
- It's easiest to square up the board, then tilt the miter saw to cut a 45-degree bevel for the first end piece and then square it up to cut the second end.
- As America and China square up, the chancellor is ignoring the bigger picture with his ill-advised spending review History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
- Give me a minute to square up, and I'll meet you outside the hotel.
