Feather
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the wings of birds that allows their wings to create lift.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cover with feathers. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers. To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance. To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies. To finely shave or bevel an edge. To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
Example sentence: My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
Square
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.Anything, such as tiles or cut pieces of material, primarily defined by being square in shape.The second power of a number, value, term or expression.A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950sThe symbol # on a telephone; hash.The central area of a cricket field, containing several pitches laid out next to one another - only one being used at a time.A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 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.A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.A mortarboardA square meal.A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.To resolve.Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same [[area] as.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Shaped like a square (the polygon).At right angles to.Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.Honest; straightforward.Fair.Socially conventional; boring.in line with the batsman's popping crease.Correctly aligned with respect to something else
Example sentence: A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.