"round and round" meaning in All languages combined

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1807, Washington Irving, William Irving and James Kirke Paulding, “From the Mill of Pindar Cockloft, Esq. (Notes, by William Wizard, Esq.: Waltz)”, in Salmagundi, number VII:",
          "text": "The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step ; and it is truly astonishing that this continued revolution does not set all their heads swimming like a top ; but I have been positively assured that it only occasions a gentle sensation which is marvellously agreeable.",
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      "glosses": [
        "In a repeated circular motion."
      ],
      "id": "en-round_and_round-en-adv-hcyekZh0",
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          "motion",
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a repeated circular motion",
          "word": "immer wieder herum (um etwas)"
        }
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          "ref": "1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 9 (“Town and Todgers’s”)”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Instances were known of people who, being asked to dine at Todgers’s, had travelled round and round for a weary time, with its very chimney–pots in view ; and finding it, at last, impossible of attainment, had gone home again with a gentle melancholy on their spirits, tranquil and uncomplaining.",
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        "Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
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        "(figurative) Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
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        {
          "_dis1": "3 97",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "(fig.) following the same course repeatedly in vain",
          "word": "herum"
        }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "around and around"
    }
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  "word": "round and round"
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          "text": "The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step ; and it is truly astonishing that this continued revolution does not set all their heads swimming like a top ; but I have been positively assured that it only occasions a gentle sensation which is marvellously agreeable.",
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          "text": "Instances were known of people who, being asked to dine at Todgers’s, had travelled round and round for a weary time, with its very chimney–pots in view ; and finding it, at last, impossible of attainment, had gone home again with a gentle melancholy on their spirits, tranquil and uncomplaining.",
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        "(figurative) Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
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    {
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a repeated circular motion",
      "word": "immer wieder herum (um etwas)"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "(fig.) following the same course repeatedly in vain",
      "word": "herum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "round and round"
}