round
adjective
[ raʊnd ]
• shaped like a circle or cylinder.
• "she was seated at a small, round table"
Similar:
circular,
disc-shaped,
disc-like,
ring-shaped,
hoop-shaped,
hooplike,
annular,
spherical,
globular,
ball-shaped,
globe-shaped,
orb-shaped,
orblike,
cylindrical,
bulbous,
bulb-shaped,
balloon-like,
convex,
curved,
curvilinear,
rounded,
rotund,
cycloidal,
discoid,
discoidal,
spheroid,
spheroidal,
globate,
globose,
orbicular,
orbiculate,
• shaped like a sphere.
• "a round glass ball"
• (of a voice) rich and mellow; not harsh.
• "his rich, round voice went down well with the listeners"
Similar:
sonorous,
resonant,
rich,
full,
full-toned,
full-bodied,
mellow,
mellifluous,
rounded,
reverberant,
orotund,
pear-shaped,
canorous,
• (of a number) expressed in convenient units rather than exactly, for example to the nearest whole number or multiple of ten.
• "the size of the fleet is given in round numbers"
• not omitting or disguising anything; frank.
• "she berated him in good round terms"
Similar:
candid,
frank,
direct,
honest,
truthful,
straightforward,
plain,
plain-spoken,
blunt,
outspoken,
forthright,
downright,
unvarnished,
bald,
straight from the shoulder,
explicit,
unequivocal,
upfront,
not pulling any punches,
not beating about the bush,
free-spoken,
round
noun
• a circular piece of something.
• "cut the pastry into rounds"
Similar:
circle,
disc,
circlet,
ring,
hoop,
band,
ball,
sphere,
globe,
orb,
bead,
annulus,
• an act of visiting a number of people or places in turn.
• "she did the rounds of her family to say goodbye"
• each of a sequence of sessions in a process, typically characterized by development between one session and another.
• "the two sides held three rounds of talks"
• a regularly recurring sequence of activities.
• "their lives were a daily round of housework and laundry"
• a song for three or more unaccompanied voices or parts, each singing the same theme but starting one after another, at the same pitch or in octaves; a simple canon.
• a slice of bread.
• "two rounds of toast"
• the amount of ammunition needed to fire one shot.
• "the gun can fire 30 rounds a second"
round
adverb
• so as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.
• "a plane circled round overhead"
• so as to rotate and face in the opposite direction.
• "he swung round to face her"
• so as to surround someone or something.
• "everyone crowded round"
• so as to reach a new place or position, typically by moving to the other side of something.
• "he made his way round to the back of the building"
• used to suggest idle and purposeless motion or activity.
• "he was driving round aimlessly"
• so as to give support and companionship.
• "if one girl is distraught the others will rally round"
round
preposition
• on every side of (a focal point).
• "the area round the school"
Similar:
around,
about,
encircling,
enclosing,
near,
in the neighbourhood of,
in the vicinity of,
in the area of,
orbiting,
• so as to encircle (someone or something).
• "he wrapped the blanket round him"
• following an approximately circular route past (a corner or obstacle).
• "a bus appeared round the corner"
• so as to cover or take in the whole area of (a place).
• "she went round the house and saw that all the windows were barred"
Similar:
throughout,
all over,
here and there in,
everywhere in,
round
verb
• pass and go round (something) so as to move on in a changed direction.
• "the ship rounded the cape and sailed north"
• alter (a number) to one less exact but more convenient for calculations.
• "we'll round the weight up to the nearest kilo"
• give a round shape to.
• "a lathe that rounded chair legs"
Origin:
Middle English: from the Old French stem round-, from a variant of Latin rotundus ‘rotund’.
