Tra từ squat - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

I - noun

1. exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent;
strengthens the leg muscles (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
knee bend, squatting
• Hypernyms:
leg exercise
2. a small worthless amount
- you don't know jack
• Syn:
jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit,
diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, shit
• Hypernyms:
small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
3. the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
• Syn:
squatting
• Derivationally related forms:
squat (for: squatting)
• Hypernyms:
motion, movement, move, motility

II - verb

1. sit on one's heels (Freq. 8)
- In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting
- The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm
• Syn:
crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down
• Derivationally related forms:
squatting
• Hypernyms:
sit, sit down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- The children squat in the rocking chair
- There squat some children in the rocking chair
2. be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide (Freq. 2)
- The building squatted low
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
3. occupy (a dwelling) illegally
• Derivationally related forms:
squatter
• Hypernyms:
occupy, reside, lodge in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP

III - adjective

1. short and thick;
as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature (Freq. 3)
- some people seem born to be square and chunky
- a dumpy little dumpling of a woman
- dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears
- a little church with a squat tower
- a squatty red smokestack
- a stumpy ungainly figure
• Syn:
chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy
• Similar to:
short, little
• Derivationally related forms:
squattiness (for: squatty), squatness, dumpiness (for: dumpy)
2. having a low center of gravity;
built low to the ground (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
underslung
• Similar to:
low
• Derivationally related forms:
squatness