round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊnd/
ipa: /ɹuːnd/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: rounds
form: rounding
form: rounded
form: rounded
form: around
form: ron
Etymology: From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
Senses: examples: text: The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
text: Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The figures on our modern medals are raiſed and rounded to a very great perfection.
ref: a. 1720 (date written), [Joseph Addison], “Dialogue III. A Parallel between the Ancient and Modern Medals.”, in Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals. […], [London]: [s.n.], published 1726, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: To shape something into a curve.
examples: text: The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: To become shaped into a curve.
examples: text: She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
text: We are such stuff
 As dreams are made on, and our little life
 Is rounded with a sleep.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
raw_tags: with "out"
examples: text: The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.
text: 95.9 rounds to 96.
glosses: To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
examples: text: Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
glosses: To turn past a boundary.
examples: text: As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
glosses: To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
examples: text: And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To advance to home plate.
examples: text: Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.
ref: 2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC:
glosses: To go round, pass, go past.
examples: text: The inclusive verge
 Of golden metal that must round my brow.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
synonyms: surround
glosses: To encircle; to encompass.
examples: text: The queen your mother rounds apace.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: So rounds he to a separate mind
⁠From whence clear memory may begin,
⁠As thro’ the frame that binds him in
His isolation grows defined.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To do ward rounds.
examples: text: They […] nightly rounding walk.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
glosses: To go or turn round; to wheel about.
Derived terms: round down
round in
round off
round on
round out
round to
round up
round upon
Related terms: 'round