"round to" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rounds to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rounding to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rounded to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rounded to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "round to (third-person singular simple present rounds to, present participle rounding to, simple past and past participle rounded to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (to)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island",
          "text": "In less than an hour she was close to the reef, where she rounded to, and backed her topsails in order to survey the coast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1899', Henry Billings Brown, The New York\nshe received a signal of two blasts from the steamer Burlington, which, with four barges in tow, had gone down the Canadian side of the river, and was then rounding to at the coal dock on the American side, exhibiting her masthead and green lights to the Conemaugh."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed."
      ],
      "id": "en-round_to-en-verb-u8CDpzA0",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, intransitive, dated) To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "come to"
        },
        {
          "word": "head up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "round to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rounds to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rounding to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rounded to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rounded to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "round to (third-person singular simple present rounds to, present participle rounding to, simple past and past participle rounded to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (to)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island",
          "text": "In less than an hour she was close to the reef, where she rounded to, and backed her topsails in order to survey the coast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1899', Henry Billings Brown, The New York\nshe received a signal of two blasts from the steamer Burlington, which, with four barges in tow, had gone down the Canadian side of the river, and was then rounding to at the coal dock on the American side, exhibiting her masthead and green lights to the Conemaugh."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, intransitive, dated) To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "come to"
        },
        {
          "word": "head up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "round to"
}