rounds
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Definitions ofrounds
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A circular or repetitious route.
Example: "The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon."
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
Example: "The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two."
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
Example: "They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes."
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- 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.
- 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.
- A stage, level, set of events in a game
- (drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
Example: "All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices."
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A rung, as of a ladder.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
Example: "the round of the seasons a round of pleasures"
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
Example: "a round of politicians"
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- A vessel filled, as for drinking.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- To shape something into a curve.
Example: "The carpenter rounded the edges of the table."
- To become shaped into a curve.
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
Example: "She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class."
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
Example: "Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred."
- To turn past a boundary.
Example: "Helen watched him until he rounded the corner."
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
Example: "As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm."
- To advance to home plate.
Example: "And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones."
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To encircle; to encompass.
Synonyms: surround
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To do ward rounds.
- To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
- To go or turn round; to wheel about.
- To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
- To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
- A whisper; whispering.
- Discourse; song.
- The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.
- A route taken by someone in authority.
Example: "the hourly rounds of the night watchman."
- (campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.
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