"round" Definition

Definitions for the word "round" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i. & t.
To whisper.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. a.
Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. a.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. a.
Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. a.
Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
A circular dance.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. n.
That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. n.
Rotation, as in office; succession.
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19. n.
The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
20. n.
A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
21. n.
A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
22. n.
A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
23. n.
Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
24. n.
A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
25. n.
The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
26. n.
A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
27. n.
A vessel filled, as for drinking.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
28. n.
An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
29. n.
See Roundtop.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
30. n.
Same as Round of beef, below.
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31. adv.
On all sides; around.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
32. adv.
Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
33. adv.
In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
34. adv.
From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
35. adv.
By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
36. adv.
Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
37. adv.
Roundly; fully; vigorously.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
38. prep.
On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
39. v. t.
To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
40. v. t.
To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
41. v. t.
To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
42. v. t.
To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
43. v. t.
To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
44. v. i.
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
45. v. i.
To go round, as a guard.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
46. v. i.
To go or turn round; to wheel about.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
47. adj.
1 shaped like a circle, sphere, or cylinder; convex; circular, curved, not angular. 2 done with or involving circular motion. 3 entire, continuous, complete (round dozen). 4 candid, outspoken. 5 (usu. Attrib.) (of a number) expressed for brevity as a complete number (£297.32, or in round figures £300). 6 (of a voice, style, etc.) Flowing, sonorous. n. 1 round object or form. 2 a revolving motion or course (yearly round). B recurring series of activities, meetings, etc. (continuous round of pleasure; round of talks). 3 a fixed route for deliveries (milk round). B route etc. For supervision or inspection (watchman''s round; doctor''s rounds). 4 drink etc. For each member of a group. 5 a one bullet, shell, etc. B act of firing this. 6 a slice from a loaf of bread. B sandwich made from two slices. C joint of beef from the haunch. 7 set, series, or sequence of actions in turn, esp.: a one spell of play in a game etc. B one stage in a competition. 8 golf playing of all the holes in a course once. 9 song for unaccompanied voices overlapping at intervals. 10 rung of a ladder. 11 (foll. By of) circumference or extent of (in all the round of nature). adv. 1 with circular motion (wheels go round).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
48. slang
to tell tales, to SPLIT, which _see_; “to ROUND on a man,” to swear to him as being the person, &c. Synonymous with BUFF, which _see_. Also to turn round upon and abuse or rate. Shakspeare has ROUNDING, whispering.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
49. slang
“ROUND dealing,” honest trading; “ROUND sum,” a large sum. Synonymous also, in a slang sense, with SQUARE, which _see_.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
50. slang
(in the language of the street), the beat or usual walk of a costermonger to sell his stock. A term used by street folk generally. “Watchmen, sometimes they made their sallies, And walk’d their ROUNDS through streets and allies.” _Ned Ward’s Vulgus Britannicus_, 1710. The word “beat” has, so far as our modern guardians are concerned, deposed “round.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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