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18 févr. 2020 · It is easy to see how square-toes might be shortened to square while retaining its ancient sense of fogeydom. Still, Harold Wentworth & Stuart Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, first edition (1960) seems to view square in the sense of fogey as an invention of the 1940s: square n. 1. A full meal; a satisfying,filling meal. [Citation from ...
12 oct. 2011 · Three square kilometres is three kilometres on one side and one kilometre on the other side. In a formulaic context 3 kilometres squared is written. And 3 square kilometres is written like this. with the two being an exponent (supertext). Three kilometers squared would be (3 [km])^2 which in turn will become (3 [km])^2 = 3 [km] * 3 [km] = 9 [km ...
29 avr. 2016 · I have checked sources and discovered my belief about square-bracketed ellipses is wrong! :-( Square brackets are only used with ellipses to distinguish editorial ellipses from quoted text where the author uses ellipses, i.e. in an article/chapter where no quoted author uses ellipses square brackets should not be used. If a paragraph is missed ...
23 oct. 2015 · I have some guesses but I'd like someone to confirm whether my guesses are right and if there are other ways to read those numbers other than the ones I'm proposing. 210 (my guess: "two to the power of then" or "two to the tenth power") ∜5 (my guess: "the fourth root of five") 2x (my guess: "two to the power of x") x√2 (no idea)
[] called brackets, square brackets, and square braces; {} called braces, curly braces, and curly brackets. () called parentheses; While it's true I have never heard referred to as "curved braces" or "curved brackets" or anything like that, it is fine to lump them in with other "enclosing punctuation" as other answers and comments suggest.
27 avr. 2015 · Likewise, a letter from Amador County, California, dated March 7, 1857, to the editor of the Sacramento [California] Daily Union (March 12, 1857), likewise uses the term "square meal" in reference to a (presumably) meal at a French restaurant. El Dorado (where the town of Coloma was located), Amador, and Sacramento counties are adjacent to one ...
7 avr. 2013 · Square brackets are used around words that are added that are not part of the original quote. For instance, you might have a source that says "Brenda and David went to the store," but you only want the quote to refer to David as a pronoun in your quote. So you should change it to "[He] went to the store."
5 avr. 2014 · At At&T, Lauren Asplund, a member of the data communications marketing group … [wanted] a new, “meaning-neutral”, name for the symbol “#”. He, along with his engineering counterpart, devised the name “oct o therp”. He tells me that the inspiration for “octo” was the eight free ends of the four strokes in the symbol.
9 sept. 2018 · I don't owe you. We're even. (informal) If two people are quits, they are on even terms, especially because a debt or score has been settled: I think we're just about quits now, don't you? (informal) If two people are square, one of them has paid off a debt to the other and neither now owes or is owed any money: I paid you back, so we're square ...
5 nov. 2020 · Its origin appears to be from teen Black AmE, from the ‘50s. Is it used both as a noun and also as an adjective: L-7 (noun) also l-seven. [the L and the 7 when put together form a SE square thus a pun on square n. (3b); the word can be accompanied by using thumb and forefinger extended at right angles, forming an L and a 7, and when the two ...
