"round and round" meaning in English

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      "word": "argue round and round"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "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."
      ],
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          "motion",
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        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a repeated circular motion",
          "word": "immer wieder herum (um etwas)"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
      ],
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          "in vain",
          "in vain"
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        "(figurative) Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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        {
          "_dis1": "3 97",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "(fig.) following the same course repeatedly in vain",
          "word": "herum"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "around and around"
    }
  ],
  "word": "round and round"
}

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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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      ],
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        "In a repeated circular motion."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
      ],
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        [
          "in vain",
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        "(figurative) Following the same course repeatedly in vain."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "around and around"
    }
  ],
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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"
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