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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.