round

We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.

The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians^([sic]) trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.

1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:

Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.

The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.

Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.

a round face, a round belly

If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

(physical) Of shape:
Loosely or approximately circular.

Our child's bed has round corners for safety.

Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.

He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.

The baker sold us a round dozen.

Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon: / A stranger meeting them had surely thought, / They rode so slowly and they look'd so pale, / That each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong.

1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 47:

One hundred is a nice round number.

(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.

"Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 421:

(phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.

a round answer; a round oath

the round assertion

1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature:

Sir Toby, I muſt be round with you.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 261, column 2:

Well, she must be plain with him, round with him, while she must not betray her child.

1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XXXVI Home”, in Queen's Folly:

Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.

In his satires Horace is quick, round, and […] pleasant.

1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman:

Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.

Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

(obsolete) Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.

I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.

1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.

1854, Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy, page 108:

(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.

round trip, round journey, round walk

en-adj

round (comparative rounder or more round, superlative roundest or most round)

rounder (comparative)
more round (comparative)
roundest (superlative)
most round (superlative)
around (alternative)
ron (alternative)

kerekített

Formal, used when number was derived from a more accurate value on some purpose. Contrary, "kerek" refers to any round(ed) number. Eg. "1000 is a round number." vs. "For cash payments in Hungary, final sum is rounded to the nearest 5-HUF value since 2008, in which year coins with smaller denominations (1HUF, 2HUF) have been withdrawn from circulation."

pyöreä

pronounced with the mouth in the shape of an "O"

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.


round

in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled

1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [...] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 6:

All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.

1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 50:

A circular or spherical object or part of an object.

hospital rounds

The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.

Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 257:

The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.

A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.

They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.

There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:

I said I did impersonations would you like to see
 Turned around to buy her one more round

1978, “Last Summer”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:

A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.

2009 May 26, Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman, page A4

A single individual portion or dose of medicine.

For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea.

One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).

(art) 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.

And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds

2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in The A.V. Club:

(sports) 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.

qualifying rounds of the championship

A stage, level, set of events in a game
(sports) A stage in a competition.

A stage, level, set of events in a game
A stage in a competition.

(sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.

When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.

1981, Tom Hirschfeld, How to Master the Video Games, page 88:

(video games) A stage or level of a game.

A stage, level, set of events in a game
A stage or level of a game.

A stage, level, set of events in a game
(card games) The play after each deal.

A stage, level, set of events in a game
The play after each deal.

(engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.

All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.

A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.

(butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.

The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.

All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.

1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Pulpit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 42:

A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.

the round of the seasons    a round of pleasures

On life's long round by chance I found
 A dell impearled with dew,
 Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground,
 Lent to the earth heaven's native hue
 Of holy blue.

1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 177:

A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.

Women to cards may be compar'd: we play
 A round or two; when us'd, we throw away.

[…]the Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd;
 To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]

1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 437:

A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.

The trivial round, the common task,
 Would furnish all we ought to ask; […]

1827, [John Keble], “Morning”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 4:

A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
 In a light fantastic round.

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

A Cave[…],
Where light and darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns.

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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:

A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.

a round of politicians

A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

(archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.

rounds (plural)
around (alternative)
ron (alternative)

canon

song with each subset starting at a different time

annos

single individual portion or dose of medicine

раздаване

card games: moment from the deal until the players are finished with the cards


round

I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.

The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error:

The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round.

(used postpositively, rare in US) Alternative form of around


round

The invitations were sent round accordingly.

1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.

1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 6


round

The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.

Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.

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:

The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.

1726, [Joseph Addison], Dialogues Upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals. […], [London], →OCLC, page 165:

(transitive) To shape something into a curve.

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.

1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.

She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.

We are such stuff
 As dreams are made on, and our little life
 Is rounded with a sleep.

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]:

(with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.

The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.

95.9 rounds to 96.

(transitive, intransitive) 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.

Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.

As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

(intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).

And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.

(transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.

Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.

2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers”, in BBC:

(transitive) To go round, pass, go past.

The inclusive verge
 Of golden metal that must round my brow.

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]:

The queen your mother rounds apace.

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]:

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.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIV, page 67:

To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

(medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.

They […] nightly rounding walk.

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:

(obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.

(obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

en-verb

round (third-person singular simple present rounds, present participle rounding, simple past and past participle rounded)

rounds (present singular third-person)
rounding (participle present)
rounded (participle past)
rounded (past)
around (alternative)
ron (alternative)


round

(intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.

rounded in the ear

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," […] he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"

c. 1617, David Calderwood (quoted as saying to King James VI)

Tiberius the emperor […] perceiving a fellow round a dead corse in the ear, would needs know wherefore he did so […]

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member IV:

(transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.

From Middle English rounen, from Old English rūnian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide”), *raunijaną (“to investigate, examine, prove”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately”), Middle Low German rūnen (“to whisper”), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper”), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur”), Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience”). More at rune.


round

(archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.

(archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

From Middle English roun, from Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnō, *raunō (“a whisper, secret, secret sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun, round (“a whisper, secret story”), German raunen (“to whisper, say secretly”), Swedish rön (“findings, observations, experience”).