Plaza vs. Square

Difference Between Plaza and Square
Plazanoun
A town's public square.
Squarenoun
(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
Plazanoun
An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
Squarenoun
(metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
Plazanoun
(North America) A strip mall.
Squarenoun
A cell in a grid.
You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.Plazanoun
a public square with room for pedestrians;
they met at Elm PlazaGrosvenor PlaceSquarenoun
A square piece, part, or surface, such as a square of glass.
Plazanoun
mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace;
a good plaza should have a movie housethey spent their weekends at the local mallsSquarenoun
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
Squarenoun
(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
Squarenoun
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
Squarenoun
An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
Squarenoun
A true measure, standard, or pattern.
Squarenoun
An open space often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
Squarenoun
(mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
64 is the square of 8.Squarenoun
(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
Squarenoun
(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.
Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!Squarenoun
(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
Enter your account number followed by a square.Squarenoun
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.Squarenoun
(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.
2007: 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. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]Squarenoun
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
Squarenoun
(academia) A mortarboard
Squarenoun
A square meal.
Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.Squarenoun
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
Squarenoun
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
Squarenoun
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
Squarenoun
(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
Squarenoun
(slang) Cigarette.
Squarenoun
(brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
Squareadjective
Shaped like a square the polygon.
Squareadjective
Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) 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.
a square cornerSquareadjective
Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
9 is a square number.Squareadjective
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
square metresquare mileSquareadjective
Honest; straightforward.
square dealingSquareadjective
Fair.
I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.Squareadjective
Even; tied
to make or leave the accounts squareThe sides were square at the end of the half.Squareadjective
(slang) Socially conventional; boring.
Squareadjective
(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
Squareadjective
Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
Squareadjective
hearty; vigorous
It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.Squareadjective
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
a man of a square frameSquareverb
(transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.Squareverb
(nautical) To place at a right angle to the keel.
to square the yardsSquareverb
To resolve or reconcile.
John can square this question up for us.These results just don't square.Squareverb
To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.to square our actions by the opinions of othersSquareverb
Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
Squareverb
(transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
square the circleSquareverb
(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
Squareverb
(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
Squareverb
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
Squareverb
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
Squareverb
To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
Squareverb
To form with four sides and four right angles.
Squareverb
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
to square mason's workSquareverb
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
Squareverb
(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
Squarenoun
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon;
you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sidesSquarenoun
the product of two equal terms;
nine is the second power of threegravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distanceSquarenoun
an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
Squarenoun
something approximating the shape of a square
Squarenoun
someone who doesn't understand what is going on
Squarenoun
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
Squarenoun
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles;
a checkerboard has 64 squaresSquarenoun
a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles;
the carpenter who built this room must have lost his squareSquareverb
raise to the second power
Squareverb
make square;
Square the circlesquare the wood with a fileSquareverb
cause to match, as of ideas or acts
Squareverb
position so as to be square;
He squared his shouldersSquareverb
be compatible with;
one idea squares with anotherSquareverb
pay someone and settle a debt;
I squared with himSquareverb
turn the paddle; in canoeing
Squareverb
turn the oar, while rowing
Squareadjective
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle;
a square peg in a round holea square cornerSquareadjective
leaving no balance;
my account with you is now all squareSquareadjective
characterized by honesty and fairness;
a square dealwanted to do the square thingSquareadjective
without evasion or compromise;
a square contradictionhe is not being as straightforward as it appearsSquareadjective
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Squareadverb
in a straight direct way;
looked him squarely in the eyeran square into meSquareadverb
with honesty and fairness;
dealt squarely with his customersalways treated me squareSquareadverb
in a square shape;
a squarely cut piece of paperfolded the sheet of paper squareSquareadverb
firmly and solidly;
hit the ball squarelythe bat met the ball squarelyplanted his great bulk square before his enemy