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Round

adverb
1.
From beginning to end; throughout.  Synonym: around.  "Frigid weather the year around"
noun
1.
A charge of ammunition for a single shot.  Synonyms: one shot, unit of ammunition.
2.
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.  Synonyms: cycle, rhythm.
3.
A regular route for a sentry or policeman.  Synonym: beat.
4.
(often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order).  "The postman's rounds" , "We enjoyed our round of the local bars"
5.
The activity of playing 18 holes of golf.  Synonym: round of golf.
6.
The usual activities in your day.  Synonym: daily round.
7.
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.  Synonyms: bout, turn.
8.
The course along which communications spread.
9.
A serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic).  Synonym: round of drinks.
10.
A cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg.
11.
A partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time.  Synonym: troll.
12.
An outburst of applause.
13.
A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.  Synonyms: rung, stave.
14.
Any circular or rotating mechanism.  Synonym: circle.
adjective
1.
Having a circular shape.  Synonym: circular.
2.
(of sounds) full and rich.  Synonyms: orotund, pear-shaped, rotund.  "The rotund and reverberating phrase" , "Pear-shaped vowels"
3.
(mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand.
verb
(past & past part. rounded; pres. part. rounding)
1.
Wind around; move along a circular course.
2.
Make round.  Synonyms: round off, round out.
3.
Pronounce with rounded lips.  Synonyms: labialise, labialize.
4.
Attack in speech or writing.  Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe.
5.
Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.  Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off.
6.
Express as a round number.  Synonyms: round down, round off, round out.
7.
Become round, plump, or shapely.  Synonyms: fill out, flesh out.



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"Round" Quotes from Famous Books



... day). Up betimes and round about by the streets to my office, and walked in the garden and in my office till my man Will rose, and then sent to tell Sir J. Minnes that I would go with him to Whitehall, which anon we did, in his coach, and ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... from a voyage of scientific discovery round the world, Darwin began to examine and classify the facts which he had collected, and continued to collect, relating to certain forms of animal life. After twenty-two years of uninterrupted labor he published a work in 1859, entitled "The Origin of Species," in which he aimed to show that ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... follow the Tarn as it winds—here a placid stream—amid poplars, willows, and smooth green reaches. Gracious and lovely the shifting scenes of the landscape around, stern and magnificent of aspect the Causse, its ramparts as of iron girding it round, its gloomy escarpments showing deep clefts and combes, lines of purply gold and ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... thorough and thorough." French entirely beaten at last, not without heroic difficulty and as noble talent as was ever shown in diplomacy and war, are ready to do your will in all things; in this of giving up Spain, among others:—whereupon the English turn round, with a sudden new thought, "No, we will not have our WILL done; it shall be the other way, the way it WAS,—now that we bethink ourselves, after all this fighting for our will!" And make Peace on those terms, as if no war had been; and accuse the great Marlborough of many things, of theft ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle

... sign that the human couple has outgrown the animal sexual attitude of the hunter seizing his prey in the act of flight, and content to enjoy it in that attitude, from behind. The human male may be said to retain the same attitude, but the female has turned round; she has faced her partner and approached him, and so symbolizes her deliberate consent ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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