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round
  1. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
  2. A circular or repetitious route.
  3. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
  4. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
  5. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
  6. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
  7. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
  8. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
  9. 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.
  10. (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.
  11. (sports) A stage in a competition.
  12. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
  13. (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.
  14. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
  15. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
  16. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
  17. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  18. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
  19. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
  20. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  21. A circular dance.
  22. Rotation, as in office; succession.
  23. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  24. An assembly; a group; a circle.
  25. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  26. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  27. (nautical) A round-top.
  28. A round of beef.
  29. Synonyms:
  30. Examples:
    1. “Take a toasted slice of bread and cut it into a big round equal to the size of the eggplant slice.”
      “A postman hid hundreds of parcels at home because stone-throwing yobs were making his daily round a nightmare.”
      “For well-to-do expatriates, life seems to be just an endless round of parties.”
roundel
  1. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
  2. (music) A roundelay or rondelay.
  3. A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
  4. (heraldry) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
  5. (aviation) a circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
  6. A bastion of a circular form.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “A moon in her complement or in her plenitude is essentially a roundel with a human face.”
      “The example shown is ornamented with concentric bands of decoration around a group of folk dancers in the central roundel.”
      “They were a sheer delight alongside a roundel of sweet, caramelised Cox's orange pippin and a dusky port wine.”
rounding
  1. The act of rounding a mathematical value.
  2. The numerical value obtained by this process.
  3. The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
  4. A rounded surface; a curve.
roundelay
  1. (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
  2. A dance in a circle.
  3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.
  4. Examples:
    1. “For example, round is another word for a roundelay, which is a short simple song with a refrain.”
      “They sat next to each other, face-to face, in the background, a roundelay of harp music playing softly.”
      “There is a comic roundelay that makes sense on its face, but if you think about it for a second, you realize how forced and unreal it is.”
round
  1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
  2. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Take a toasted slice of bread and cut it into a big round equal to the size of the eggplant slice.”
      “A postman hid hundreds of parcels at home because stone-throwing yobs were making his daily round a nightmare.”
      “For well-to-do expatriates, life seems to be just an endless round of parties.”
roundure
  1. (obsolete) roundness
  2. (obsolete) A round or circle.
roundswoman
  1. A female worker who makes rounds, especially in order to deliver goods.
roundsman
  1. A worker who makes rounds, especially in order to deliver goods.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They include a sculptor, a photographer, an egg roundsman and even a white witch obsessed with the gothic genre.”
      “The woman who lost two husbands and two sons to violent deaths has now come across another formidable foe in this legendary police roundsman.”
      “Contrary to instructions, this roundsman chose to do what he was employed to do in an improper way.”
roundsperson
  1. A worker who makes rounds, especially in order to deliver goods.
roundshield
roundrect
  1. (computer graphics) A rectangle with rounded corners.
roundman
  1. Alternative form of roundsman
roundishness
  1. The quality of being roundish.
roundedness
  1. The quality of being rounded.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “You can get a sense of the roundedness of the Amazon life by looking at Amazon names.”
      “The man is secured to the drawing's surface, complete with red-herring hints of roundedness and spatial recession.”
      “I like the soft roundedness I've found in women, the scratchy ridiculousness I've found in men, and the culinary generosity I've found in both.”
roundness
  1. The quality of being round.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The roundness of the basketball made it perfect for a game of dribbling and shooting.”
      “The roundness of her cheeks added to her youthful appearance.”
      “The roundness of her achievement was evident in the overwhelming support and applause she received from the audience.”
rounds
  1. plural of round
  2. (plural only) The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.
  3. (plural only) A route taken by someone in authority.
  4. (campanology, plural only) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.
  5. Synonyms:
roundspeople
  1. plural of roundsperson
roundspersons
  1. plural of roundsperson
roundswomen
  1. plural of roundswoman
roundshields
  1. plural of roundshield
roundednesses
roundsmen
roundelays
  1. plural of roundelay
roundrects
  1. plural of roundrect
roundnesses
roundmen
  1. plural of roundman
roundings
  1. plural of rounding
roundures
  1. plural of roundure
roundels
  1. plural of roundel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I leave her on a military passenger plane, complete with turquoise and white roundels, piloted by a uniformed officer.”
      “On 5 May, they flew six of the transports, now bearing the tricolored roundels of the French Air Force, to Gia Lam airbase outside Hanoi.”
      “Soon came bolder, larger forms using stone spokes, or small, cusped roundels set in a ring, like an old telephone dial.”
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