Word Finder - rounds

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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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To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.

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To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.

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A whisper; whispering.

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Discourse; song.

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The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.

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A route taken by someone in authority.

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the hourly rounds of the night watchman.

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(campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.

Players play as many rounds as it takes to reach thirteen points.

Next, celebrity judges took part in the audition rounds.

Prepare a variety of ingredients ahead of time, and use the packaged dough rounds, jarred sauce, and shredded cheese.

We've gotta finish our rounds.

Through four rounds of eliminations, these 175 became 24 - two groups of 12 males and 12 females, as in season 4.

Only You by 112 and Notorious Big is a nice ballad that rounds out the harder songs and the female singers.

She wasn't so lucky in seasons six, when she and Adam Carolla only lasted four rounds.

When you have free time during the big game you can play a few rounds of football charades to make the time pass quickly.

The local news dubbed him a human jukebox and his talent carried him through all the elimination rounds to win the jackpot.

During the preliminary rounds former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff, British journalist Piers Morgan, and Ozzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon, are given the task of booting off the worst wannabe singers, dancers, magicians and comedians.

They often appear doing the rounds on other TV shows and in other media.

Not surprisingly, Boyle made it through the preliminary rounds of Britain's Got Talent and ended up in the final three performers.

If you make it past this stage you will likely go through several more rounds of interviews and testing processes as the producers whittle down the candidates to the final cast.

Casting is usually done by making several rounds of cuts.

Rumors of trouble between the couple had been making the rounds of the gossip magazines and blogs for weeks before the official announcement.

It was late, so he made his usual rounds.

This steadiness may vary during the flight of the projectile, as the shot may be unsteady for some distance after leaving the muzzle, afterwards steadying down, like a spinning-top. Again, a may increase as the gun wears out, after firing a number of rounds.

These bobbins are then in general taken to the first spinning frame, and there the single strands receive their first twist, which rounds them, and prevents the compound fibre from splitting up and separating when, by the subsequent scouring operations, the gum is removed which presently binds them into one.

In the opinion of the people he was now regarded as the embodiment of all legal virtue; his health was toasted at the dinners of the Whigs amid rounds of applause, and, in recompense for the loss of his seat in parliament, he was returned by Lord Clive for his pocket-borough of Bishop's Castle, in Shropshire, in January 1770.

The crier continues his daily rounds, with his former chant, excepting on the Coptic New Years Day, when the cry of the Wefh is repeated, until the Salib, or Discovery of the Cross, the 26th or 27th of September, at which period, the river having attained its greatest height, he concludes his annual employment with another chant, and presents to each house some limes and other fruit, and dry lumps of Nile mud.

The bombardment ceased at 5 P.M.; but a few rounds were fired by the Inflexible and Temeraire on the morning of,the 12th at the right battery in Ras-el-Tin lines.

After a few rounds of artillery fire, Suraj-ud-Dowlah fled, and the road to Murshidabad was left open.

The two vamps behind the first went down with one shot each, and he grunted as the others racing down the opposite side of the alley managed to plant two rounds in him before he blasted all of them to hell.

To digress somewhat, there are a large number of rounds in Cornwall, usually located on spurs of land or prominently on hillslopes.

It was here that depleted uranium ammunition was used for the first time - more than 30 metric tons - 300,000 rounds in all.

My studies of the matter suggest that 50 rounds of pistol ammunition should suffice for an entire war.

This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus.

Science is how several rounds of pineapples mangoes avocados.

Carmen who played the front nine solidly in both rounds rued a double bogey six on the long 12th hole in both rounds.

Most of the African countries doing the rounds with begging bowls are not necessarily poor at all.

Amateur contests can be over four two-minute or three three-minute rounds while professional championship boxing is over twelve three-minute rounds.

I have just had three days of with a stomach bug its been doing the rounds!

They might as well be armed with rubber bands as rubber bullets, and no-one dare mention the use of live rounds.

To serve, arrange the potato rounds on a plate and top with the cooked chard.

Unkind perhaps but would watching the contestants play for, say, five rounds, answering the questions for nothing, make good television?

Already 25 firearms and 49 rounds of ammunition have been handed in, as well as 48 other weapons including a deadly crossbow.

Soon a carrion crow which has been doing its rounds over the upland fields spots the spill.

After three rounds of diamonds declarer leads a spade from the table, and defensive communications are broken beyond repair.

Each fund can also invest in a company at subsequent rounds to prevent dilution.

The KWS forces also seized one firearm and six rounds of ammunition from this gang.

All rounds are 3 hour races except for 30th April which will be 454 laps or 7.5 hours, whichever comes first.

Trade rounds take a long time to reach fruition.

The intriguing American trailer and a generous handful of other VCI trailers rounds out the first disk.

On other rounds, players may order their creatures to move to an adjacent hex or stay put.

Rounds of delicious ice cold cerveza Polar in a bar where almost every man either carried a machete or a gun or both.

Needless to say, I was of great interest to the resident med students making their rounds in the internal med students making their rounds in the internal medicine wing.

They had merry go rounds to sit on and swings and see saws.

Further rounds of infection with other recombinant virus constructs could allow introduction of other oncogenes.

Once set cut the polenta into 8 rounds using a cookie cutter.

Francois, a village postman, zips through his rounds on his bicycle -- the old-fashioned way.