squares
Произношение: [skwɛrz]
Слово
Контекст: «shapes»
(noun) a square is a shape that has four equal sides and four right angles. It looks like a box. You see squares when you look at tiles, windows, or even in your notebooks.
Пример
The playground has a big square made of blocks for kids to play on.
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Not all shapes are squares; some have different numbers of sides.
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Can you name something that is shaped like a square?
Контекст: «games»
(noun) a square can also refer to a small game area in games like hopscotch. Kids use chalk to draw squares on the ground for jumping.
Пример
We drew several squares on the sidewalk to play hopscotch.
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We didn’t have enough space to draw the squares for the game.
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How many squares should we draw for our hopscotch game?
Контекст: «mathematics»
(verb) to square a number means to multiply it by itself. For example, 3 squared is 3 times 3, which equals 9. This is an important operation in math.
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In math class, we learned how to square the number 4, which equals 16.
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She didn't understand why squaring 5 didn't equal 10.
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What do you get when you square the number 2?
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