Word Finder - round

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So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.

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High above, vultures circled around.

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So as to surround or be near.

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Everybody please gather around.

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Nearly; approximately; about.

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An adult elephant weighs around five tons.

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From place to place.

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Look around and see what you find.

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From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.

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He used to stay up late but his new girlfriend changed that around.

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(with turn, spin etc.) So as to partially or completely rotate; so as to face in the opposite direction.

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She spun around a few times.

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Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people.

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I asked around, and no-one really liked it.

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Used with certain verbs to suggest unproductive activity.

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Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing.

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I planted a row of lilies around the statue.

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(of abstract things) Centred upon; surrounding.

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There has been a lot of controversy around the handling of personal information.

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Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.

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She went around the track fifty times.

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Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.

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The road took a brief detour around the large rock formation, then went straight on.

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Near; in the vicinity of.

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I don't want you around me.

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At or to various places within.

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She went around the office and got everyone to sign the card.

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A circular or spherical object or part of an object.

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A circular or repetitious route.

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The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon.

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A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

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The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.

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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.

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A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

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They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.

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A single individual portion or dose of medicine.

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One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).

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A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.

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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.

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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.

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A stage, level, set of events in a game

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(drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.

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A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.

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All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.

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(butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.

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A rung, as of a ladder.

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A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.

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A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.

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the round of the seasons    a round of pleasures

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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.

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A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.

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A circular dance.

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Rotation, as in office; succession.

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A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.

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An assembly; a group; a circle.

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a round of politicians

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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

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A vessel filled, as for drinking.

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A round-top.

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A round of beef.

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To shape something into a curve.

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The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.

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To become shaped into a curve.

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(with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.

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She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.

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To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.

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Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.

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To turn past a boundary.

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Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.

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To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).

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As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

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To advance to home plate.

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And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.

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To go round, pass, go past.

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To encircle; to encompass.

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• surround

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To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

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To do ward rounds.

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To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.

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To go or turn round; to wheel about.

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(physical) Shape.

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Complete, whole, not lacking.

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The baker sold us a round dozen.

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(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.

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One hundred is a nice round number.

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Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.

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Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.

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a round answer; a round oath

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Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.

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Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.

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Large in magnitude.

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a round sum

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(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.

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Vaulted.