Noun
1. a charge of ammunition for a single shot
2. an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;
3. a regular route for a sentry or policeman;
4. (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order);
5. the activity of playing 18 holes of golf;
6. the usual activities in your day;
7. (sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive
8. the course along which communications spread;
9. a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic);
10. a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
11. a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time;
12. an outburst of applause;
13. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
14. any circular or rotating mechanism;
Verb
1. wind around; move along a circular course;
2. make round;
3. be around;
4. pronounce with rounded lips
5. attack in speech or writing;
6. bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state;
7. express as a round number;
8. become round, plump, or shapely;
Adjective
1. having a circular shape
2. (of sounds) full and rich;
3. (of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand;
Adverb
1. from beginning to end; throughout;
How do you demonstrate that the earth is round?
He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.
The children flocked round their teacher.
They'll catch a packet if they try to go round the points.
Turn the picture round to face the wall.
The sun appears to go round the Earth, but it's an illusion.
Shall we walk round to your aunt's house, or take the car?
Our task is to supply vegetables all the year round.
The people crowded round the scene of the accident.
Pull the wire tight and then twist the ends round.
I haven't got enough candies to go round.
Mother ran round the room shaking up all the cushions when the doorbell rang.
The colts and calves are gambolling round the stockman.
People crowded round the player with congratulations.
The boxer polished off his opponent in the first round.
I found the cheapest price for enlarging the photograph by ringing round all the photographic dealers.
The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis.
The fashion at the time moulded round the upper part of the body.
I really had a hard time in the second round, the man I played against was too much for me.
There are several solutions round this.
The white plate is banded with a blue line round the edge.
That team went out in the first round.
They're looking round the Russian pavilion.
He sailed round the globe.
She's beginning to get wrinkles round her eyes.
People quickly congregated round the speaker.
She was wearing a string of green beads round her neck.
He invited us round for drinks.
Now please turn round.
You must have been round the twist to walk across the electric railway tracks.
round on
To turn on and assail.
round up
To seek out and bring together; gather.
To herd (cattle) together from various places.
go the round (或 rounds)
(of a story or joke) be passed on from person to person
round about
on all sides or in all directions; surrounding someone or something
everything round about was covered with snow.
at a point or time approximately equal to
they arrived round about nine.
round the bend
they arrived round about nine.
round the twist
they arrived round about nine.
round something off
make the edges or corners of something smooth
round off the spars with a soft plastic fitting.
round something out
make something more complete
his father insisted he went to university to round out his education.
round someone/thing up
drive or collect a number of people or animals together for a particular purpose
in the afternoon the cows are rounded up for milking.
in the round
With the stage in the center of the audience.
Fully shaped so as to stand free of a background
a sculpture in the round.
make the rounds 或 go the rounds
To go from place to place, as on business or for entertainment
a delivery truck making the rounds; students going the rounds in the entertainment district.
To be communicated or passed from person to person
The news quickly made the rounds. A piece of juicy gossip is going the rounds.
about, around, round
There is relatively little information about round, maybe you can watch a bilingual story to relax your mood, I wish you a happy day!
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