round

1. (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.Synonyms: canoncountable

2. (UK) One slice of bread.Examples: "For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea."UK

3. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.

4. (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.Examples: "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"

5. A stage, level, set of events in a gameExamples: "qualifying rounds of the championship"

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

1. (rare in US) Alternative form of around.Examples: "I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat."; "The serpent Error twines round human hearts."alt-ofalternativerare

2. (used postpositively, rare in US) Alternative form of around.Examples: "The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round."alt-ofalternativerare

1. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.Examples: "The carpenter rounded the edges of the table."; "Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber."; "The figures on our modern medals are raiſed and rounded to a very great perfection."transitive

2. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.Examples: "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."intransitive

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

4. (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.Examples: "The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100."; "95.9 rounds to 96."intransitivetransitive

5. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.Examples: "Helen watched him until he rounded the corner."transitive

6. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).Examples: "As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm."intransitive

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

2. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.Examples: "rounded in the ear"; "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?""; "Tiberius the emperor […] perceiving a fellow round a dead corse in the ear, would needs know wherefore he did so […]"Northern-EnglandScotlandarchaicdialectaltransitive

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

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