Word: Rounds
How to pronounce: raʊnd
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Shaped like a circle or cylinder.
Example sentences: "She was seated at a small, round table"
2. Shaped like a sphere.
Example sentences: "A round glass ball"
3. (of a voice) rich and mellow; not harsh.
Example sentences: "His rich, round voice went down well with the listeners"
4. (of a number) expressed in convenient units rather than exactly, for example to the nearest whole number or multiple of ten.
Example sentences: "The size of the fleet is given in round numbers"
5. Not omitting or disguising anything; frank.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A circular piece of something.
Example sentences: "Cut the pastry into rounds"
2. An act of visiting a number of people or places in turn.
Example sentences: "She did the rounds of her family to say goodbye"
3. Each of a sequence of sessions in a process, typically characterized by development between one session and another.
Example sentences: "The two sides held three rounds of talks"
4. A regularly recurring sequence of activities.
Example sentences: "Their lives were a daily round of housework and laundry"
5. A song for three or more unaccompanied voices or parts, each singing the same theme but starting one after another, at the same pitch or in octaves; a simple canon.
Example sentences: "We sang songs in rounds, back and forth with our own echoes."
6. A slice of bread.
Example sentences: "Two rounds of toast"
7. The amount of ammunition needed to fire one shot.
Example sentences: "The gun can fire 30 rounds a second"
Adverb
Definitions:
1. So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.
Example sentences: "A plane circled round overhead"
2. So as to rotate and face in the opposite direction.
Example sentences: "He swung round to face her"
3. So as to surround someone or something.
Example sentences: "Everyone crowded round"
4. So as to reach a new place or position, typically by moving to the other side of something.
Example sentences: "He made his way round to the back of the building"
5. Used to suggest idle and purposeless motion or activity.
Example sentences: "He was driving round aimlessly"
6. So as to give support and companionship.
Example sentences: "If one girl is distraught the others will rally round"
Preposition
Definitions:
1. On every side of (a focal point)
Example sentences: "The area round the school"
2. So as to encircle (someone or something)
Example sentences: "He wrapped the blanket round him"
3. Following an approximately circular route past (a corner or obstacle)
Example sentences: "A bus appeared round the corner"
4. So as to cover or take in the whole area of (a place)
Example sentences: "She went round the house and saw that all the windows were barred"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Pass and go round (something) so as to move on in a changed direction.
Example sentences: "The ship rounded the cape and sailed north"
2. Alter (a number) to one less exact but more convenient for calculations.
Example sentences: "We'll round the weight up to the nearest kilo"
3. Give a round shape to.
Example sentences: "A lathe that rounded chair legs"
Synonyms:
circle
cycle
circuit
bout
wheel
loop
roundel
circular
ring
throughout
around
about
rounding
plump
fat
well rounded
turn
bend
rotund
chubby
globular
spherical
go round
orbit
back
hook
round down
ball
compass
roll
sweep
backward
backwards
Derivations:
roundel
roundhead
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Rounds in Other Languages...
Spanish: Ronda
German: Runde
French: Rond
Italian: Rotondo
Turkish: Devriye
