round
IPA: rˈaʊnd
noun
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A stage, level, set of events in a game
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
- (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
- (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
- (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
- (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
- (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
adjective
- (physical) Of shape:
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (obsolete) Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Large in magnitude.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
adverb
- Alternative form of around [So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.]
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Examples of "round" in Sentences
- He has a round face.
- It is to go round to circulate.
- The ellipticity was a round shape.
- The gametocytes are round in shape.
- The corners of the groove are rounded.
- The collar of the blouse is round necked.
- Round nine was the most exciting round of the fight.
- The form is like pushing a grindstone round and round.
- Because the round trait is dominant, the phenotype of all the seeds was round.
- Crucially, Vargas was knocked down in the 1st round and again in the 11th round.