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SQUARER

Traducere în limba română

squarer substantiv

1. persoană care dă o formă pătrată sau dreptunghiulară unui obiect.

2. (fig.) persoană care încearcă imposibilul.

3. (fam.) boxer.

4. (înv.) certăreţ; intrigant.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

His jaw seemed to become squarer, his chin more aggressive, and he bundled the manuscripts off to new editors.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Gradually, however, as his neighbours plied him with drink, his shoulders grew squarer, his back stiffened, his eyes brightened, and he looked about him, with an air of surprise at first, as if he had no clear recollection of how he came there, and afterwards with an expression of deepening interest, as he listened, with his ear scooped up in his hand, to the conversation around him.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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