Dictionary Definition
round adj
2 (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones";
"the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn:
orotund, rotund, pear-shaped]
3 (of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or
thousand; "in round numbers"
Noun
1 a charge of ammunition for a single shot [syn:
unit of
ammunition, one shot]
2 an interval during which a recurring sequence
of events occurs; "the neverending cycle of the seasons" [syn:
cycle, rhythm]
3 a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in
the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by
name" [syn: beat]
4 (often plural) a series of professional calls
(usually in a set order); "the doctor goes on his rounds first
thing every morning"; "the postman's rounds"; "we enjoyed our round
of the local bars"
5 the activity of playing 18 holes of golf; "a
round of golf takes about 4 hours" [syn: round of
golf]
6 the usual activities in your day; "the doctor
made his rounds" [syn: daily
round]
8 the course along which communications spread;
"the story is going the rounds in Washington"
9 a serving to each of a group (usually
alcoholic); "he ordered a second round" [syn: 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; "they enjoyed
singing rounds" [syn: troll]
12 an outburst of applause; "there was a round of
applause"
14 any circular or rotating mechanism; "the
machine punched out metal circles" [syn: circle] adv : from beginning to
end; throughout; "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather
the year around" [syn: around]
Verb
1 wind around; move along a circular course;
"round the bend"
3 be around; "Developments surround the town";
"The river encircles the village" [syn: surround, environ, encircle, circle, ring]
5 attack in speech or writing; "The editors of
the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn:
attack, assail, lash out,
snipe, assault]
6 bring to a highly developed, finished, or
refined state; "polish your social manners" [syn: polish, round off,
polish
up, brush up]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
From rond-, rund- ( > French rond), representing an earlier *rodond, from Latin rotundus ( > Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo etc.). The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Compare rotund.Adjective
- Circular or
cylindrical; having
a circular
cross-section in one direction.
- We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
- Spherical; shaped
like a ball; having a
circular cross-section
in more than one direction.
- The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
- Lacking sharp angles;
having gentle curves.
- Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
- Plump
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- The baker sold us a round dozen.
- Of a number that has
been rounded off or approximated.
- One hundred is a nice round number.
- Pronounced with the mouth open in the shape of an "O".
Synonyms
- italbrac circular: circular, cylindrical, discoid
- italbrac spherical: spherical
- : rounded
- italbrac plump: plump, rotund
- italbrac not lacking: complete, entire, whole
- italbrac of a number: rounded
- italbrac pronounced with the mouth open: rounded
Translations
circular or cylindrical
spherical
of corners that lack sharp angles
- Czech: kulatý
- Finnish: pyöreä, pyöristää
- German: abgerundet
- Lithuanian: užapvalintas
- Russian: круглый (krúglyj), закруглённый (zakrugl'ónnyj)
- Slovene: zaobljen , zaobljena , zaobljeno
- Spanish: redondo , redonda
plump
complete, not lacking
of a number that has been rounded off
- Czech: kulatý
- Finnish: pyöreä, pyöristää
- German: rund
- Lithuanian: suapvalintas
- Russian: круглый
pronounced with the mouth in the shape of an "O"
- Finnish: pyöreä
Derived terms
Noun
- A circular object.
- A circular or repetitious route; hospital
rounds.
- The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon.
- An outburst of a certain event. For example, a round of applause.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A serving of something; a dishing out of one of something to everybody, as in a round of drinks.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- A bullet, or any individual ammunition shell.
- A period of time in a boxing match in which boxers are permitted to fight before being signaled to returned to their designated corner.
- In the context of "engineering|drafting|CAD": A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
Antonyms
- (rounded outside edge): fillet
Translations
circular object
- Finnish: ympyrä
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: خڕ
circular or repetitious route
- Finnish: kierros
- Russian: обход
- Slovene: obhod
outburst
- Finnish: "other structures used"
song
- Finnish: kaanon
serving
- Finnish: kierros
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: جهم
- Slovene: runda
circular paintbrush
individual ammunition shell
- Finnish: patruuna, ammus
period in a boxing match
Derived terms
Preposition
round- Around.
- I look round the room quick to make sure it's neat looking.
Translations
around
- Finnish: ympäri, ympäriinsä, ympärille+pers.suffix
- Latin: circa, circum
on/to more than two sides
- Finnish: ympärillä, ympärille
- Russian: вокруг
Adverb
roundVerb
- To shape something into a curve.
- The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
- To finish; to
complete; to fill out.
- She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
- To approximate a
number, especially a
decimal number by the closest whole number.
- Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
- To turn past a
boundary.
- Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
- To turn and attack someone or thing.
- As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
Derived terms
Translations
to shape into a curve
to round out
- Finnish: suorittaa
to approximate a number
- Czech: zaokrouhlit
- Finnish: pyöristää
- Portuguese: arredondar
- Russian: округлять (okrugl'át') , округлить (okruglít')
- Slovene: zaokrožiti
to turn past a boundary
to turn and attack
See also
Etymology 2
Old English rūnian.Verb
- To whisper.
Extensive Definition
Round or rounds can mean:
- The shape of a circle or sphere
- Rounding (sediment), the smoothness of a sediment particle
- Roundedness, the roundedness of the lips in the pronunciation of a phoneme
- Rounding, the truncation of a number to reduce the number of significant figures it contains
- Round number, a number that ends with one or more zeroes
- A level of an event, such as a tournament, golf game, or medical examination
- Round (music), a type of musical composition
- Round of drinks, a traditional method of paying in a drinking establishment
- Cartridge (firearms), a single unit of ammunition
- Round (Theosophy), a planetary cycle of reincarnation in Theosophy
- Round Table Pizza, a pizza restaurant
- Mike Rounds, current Governor of South Dakota
- Rounds (album), a 2003 album by Four Tet
- Round Mountain (volcano), a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada
- A regular security patrol, "doing the rounds"
- Funding round, in business finance
round in German: Runde
round in Dutch: Runde
round in Japanese: ラウンド
round in Slovak: Kolo
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Attic,
Charybdis, Chateaubriand, Ciceronian, Indian file,
O, O-shaped, SRO, about, absolute, ace, admitting no exception,
again, air lane, all but,
all over, all-out, almost, ambagious, ambit, amount, annular, annular muscle,
annulate, annulose, annulus, anticlockwise, approximate, approximately, arc, arch, arched, area, arena, areola, around, array, arsis, articulation, artless, as good as, aside, assemble, aureole, back, backhanded, backward, bailiwick, ball, bank, bead, beat, beaten path, begird, bellied, bellylike, bend, bend back, beside, best bower, blade roast,
bluff, blunt, border, borderland, bout, bow, bower, breast, brimful, brimming, brisket, broad, brusque, bulging, bullet, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, burst, bursting, buzz, by, caliber, candid, canon, capacity, cards, cartridge, catch, categorical, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chance, chaplet, charge, chaste, chinoiserie, chock-full,
chuck, chuck roast,
chuck-full, circinate,
circle, circuit, circuiteer, circuitous, circuitously, circular, circulate, circulation, circumambulate, circumference, circummigrate, circumnavigate, circumrotate, circumvent, circumvolute, circumvolution, circus, classic, clear, clockwise, clod, close, close about, close the
circle, closed circle, clubs, cold cuts, collect, come about, come full
circle, compass,
complete, concatenation, conclusive, cone, congested, connection, consecution, continuum, convex, corner, corona, coronary, coronet, counterclockwise,
course, cram-full,
crammed, crank, crook, crown, crownlike, curl, curvation, curve, curved, curvilinear, cut, cycle, cyclic, cycloid, daily grind, decided, decisive, deck, decurve, definite, definitive, deflect, degree, demesne, department, descent, describe a circle,
determinate,
deuce, deviating, deviative, devious, diadem, diamonds, diastole, digressive, direct, disc, discipline, discoid, discursive, discus, disk, disklike, dizzy round, domain, dome, dominion, doorstep, double a point,
downbeat, downright, draft, dram, drench, drink, drone, drop, dummy, easy, eddy, elegant, embow, encircle, encircling, enclosing, encompass, end, endless belt, endless round,
ensphere, entire, eternal return, exact, excursive, explicit, express, extent, face cards, fairy ring,
farci, fetch about,
field, file, filet mignon, filiation, fill out, filled, final, finish, finished, fixed, flank, flat, flat-out, flex, flight path, flush, footrest, footstep, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
free-tongued, fugato,
fugue, full, full circle, full house, full
to bursting, gamut,
gargle, garland, gather, genuine, gird, girdle, girdle the globe,
global, globate, globe, globe-shaped, globelike, globular, glory, go, go about, go around, go round, go
the round, graceful,
gracile, gradation, grade, grind, groove, gurge, guzzle, gyrate, gyration, gyre, halo, hand, head over heels,
heart-to-heart, hearts,
heat, heel, heels over head, height, helical, hem, hemisphere, herd, honest, hook, hoop, hum, hump, hunch, implicit, in a circle, in a
spin, in a whirl, in circles, in reverse, in the neighborhood, in
the vicinity, inappealable, incurvate, incurve, indirect, indisputable, inflect, ingenuous, inning, innings, interval, itinerary, jack, jam-packed, jigger, jog trot, joker, jolt, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, just about,
king, knave, knuckle, lap, lasso, leap, left bower, level, libation, limpid, line, lineage, logical circle,
loin, loop, looplet, lucid, maelstrom, magic circle, make
a circuit, march, mark, marshal, meandering, measure, mellifluous, mellow, monotone, most, muster, natural, near, nearby, neat, nexus, nigh, nip, noose, notch, nuance, oblique, on all sides, open, openhearted, opportunity, orb, orbicular, orbit, orbital, orbiting, orotund, out-and-out,
out-of-the-way, outburst, outright, outspoken, over, overfull, overstuffed, pack, packed, packed like sardines,
pair, pale, pas, path, peg, pellucid, pendulum, peremptory, perfect, period, periodicity, perspicuous, picture cards,
pirouette, pitch, pivot, pivot about, place, plain, plain-spoken, plane, plate, plate piece, plateau, playing cards, plenary, plenum, point, polished, positive, pot roast, potation, potion, powder train, practically, precinct, precise, primrose path, progression, proportion, province, pull, pulse, pure, put about, queen, queue, rack, radius, range, rank, rat race, ratio, reach, ready to burst, realm, recurrence, recurve, red tape, red-tapeism,
reel, refine, refined, reflect, reflex, relief, remove, replete, rest, restrained, reticulation, retroflex, return, reverberant, reverberating, revolution, revolve, rib roast, ribs, rich, ring, ring-shaped, ringlike, riser, road, roast, rolled roast, rondeau, rondelet, rondelle, rondino, rondo, rondoletto, rondure, rotary, rotate, rotation, rotund, rough, round a bend, round a
corner, round a point, round about, round and round, round of
drinks, round out, round trip, round up, roundabout, rounded, rounded out, roundel, roundelay, rounds, route, routine, row, royal flush, rubber, ruff, rump, rump roast, run, rundle, rung, rut, saddle, sag, satiated, saturated, saucer, say, scale, scope, screw, sea lane, sequence, series, shade, shadow, shank, shell, short ribs, shortcut, shot, shoulder, shoulder clod,
simple, sincere, single file, singleton, sip, sirloin, skirt, sleek, slick, smooth, snifter, snort, soaked, sonorous, space, spades, spate, spectrum, spell, sphere, spherical, spheroid, spheroidal, sphincter, spin, spiral, spoke, spot, squirrel cage, stage, stair, standard, standing room only,
stave, step, step stool, stepping-stone,
stint, straight, straight-out,
straightforward,
string, stuffed, subdiscipline, succession, suck, sup, surfeited, surge, surround, swag, swath, sweep, swig, swill, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, swollen, systole, tasteful, tenderloin, terse, thesis, thread, through, throughout, tier, time, time at bat, topful, total, tour, track, trade route, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, transparent, tread, treadmill, trey, trick, trim, troll, trump, truthful, turn, turn a corner, turn a
pirouette, turn about, turn around, turn round, turn tail, twirl, twist, unaffected, unchecked, uncircumscribed,
unconditional,
unconditioned,
unconstrained,
undoubting, unembellished, unequivocal, unguarded, unhampered, unhesitating, unlabored, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unvarnished, unwaivable, upbeat, utter, vault, veer, veer around, vibrant, vicious circle,
volley, vortex, walk, wamble, well-nigh, well-worn
groove, wet, whack, wheel, wheel about, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whole, widdershins, wind, windrow, without exception,
without reserve, wrangle, wreath