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round  

 [1]     (PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES)  
Round is an adverb and preposition that has the same meanings as `around'. Round is often used with verbs of movement, such as `walk' and `drive', and also in phrasal verbs such as `get round' and `hand round'. Round is commoner in British English than American English, and it is slightly more informal.     
Please look at category 20 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.     
1       prep   To be positioned round a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move round a place means to go along its edge, back to the point where you started.  
They were sitting round the kitchen table..., All round us was desert...     
      Round is also an adverb., adv   ADV after v  
Visibility was good all round..., The goldfish swam round and round in their tiny bowls.     
2       prep   If you move round a corner or obstacle, you move to the other side of it. If you look round a corner or obstacle, you look to see what is on the other side.  
Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side..., One of his men tapped and looked round the door.     
3       prep   You use round to say that something happens in or relates to different parts of a place, or is near a place.  
He happens to own half the land round here..., I think he has earned the respect of leaders all round the world...     
      Round is also an adverb., adv   ADV after v, n ADV  
Shirley found someone to show them round..., So you're going to have a look round?     
4       adv   If a wheel or object spins round, it turns on its axis.  
ADV after v  
Holes can be worn remarkably quickly by a wheel going round at 60mph...     
5       adv   If you turn round, you turn so that you are facing or going in the opposite direction.  
ADV after v  
She paused, but did not turn round..., The wind veered round to the east...     
6       adv   If you move things round, you move them so they are in different places.  
ADV after v  
I've already moved things round a bit to make it easier for him.     
7       adv   If you hand or pass something round, it is passed from person to person in a group.  
ADV after v  
John handed round the plate of sandwiches.     
      Round is also a preposition., prep  
They started handing the microphone out round the girls at the front...     
8       adv   If you go round to someone's house, you visit them.  
ADV after v  
I think we should go round and tell Kevin to turn his music down..., He came round with a bottle of champagne.     
      Round is also a preposition in non-standard English., prep  
I went round my wife's house.     
9       adv   You use round in informal expressions such as sit round or hang round when you are saying that someone is spending time in a place and is not doing anything very important.  
  (BRIT)   ADV after v  
As we sat round chatting, I began to think I'd made a mistake...     
      Round is also a preposition., prep  
She would spend the day hanging round street corners...     
10       prep   If something is built or based round a particular idea, that idea is the basis for it.  
That was for a design built round an existing American engine...     
11       prep   If you get round a problem or difficulty, you find a way of dealing with it.  
Don't just immediately give up but think about ways round a problem...     
12       adv   If you win someone round, or if they come round, they change their mind about something and start agreeing with you.  
ADV after v  
He did his best to talk me round, but I wouldn't speak to him...     
13       adv   You use round in expressions such as this time round or to come round when you are describing something that has happened before or things that happen regularly.  
n ADV, ADV after v  
In the past, the elections have been marked by hundreds of murders, but this time round the violence has been much more limited...     
14       prep   You can use round to give the measurement of the outside of something that is shaped like a circle or a cylinder.  
I'm about two inches larger round the waist.     
      Round is also an adverb., adv  
It's six feet high and five feet round.     
15       adv   You use round in front of times or amounts to indicate that they are approximate.  
ADV amount     (vagueness)    I go to bed round 11:00 at night.     
16    In spoken English, round about means approximately.  
  (mainly BRIT)  
♦ round about      prep-phrase  
  (vagueness)    Round about one and a half million people died.     
17    You say all round to emphasize that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.  
  (mainly BRIT)  
♦ all round      phrase   cl PHR     (emphasis)    It ought to make life much easier all round...     
18    If you say that something is going round and round in your head, you mean that you can't stop thinking about it.  
♦ go round and round      phrase   V inflects  
It all keeps going round and round in my head till I don't know where I am.     
19    If something happens all year round, it happens throughout the year.  
♦ all year round      phrase   PHR after v  
Many of these plants are evergreen, so you can enjoy them all year round...     
20   
  →   round the corner  
  →   corner  
  →   the other way round  
  →   way  
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round   [2]     ( rounds    plural  )   (NOUN USES)  
1       n-count   A roundof events is a series of related events, especially one which comes after or before a similar series of events.  
with supp, oft N of n  
This is the latest round of job cuts aimed at making the company more competitive...     
2       n-count   In sport, a round is a series of games in a competition. The winners of these games go on to play in the next round, and so on, until only one player or team is left.  
usu adj N, N num   (=heat)  
...in the third round of the Pilkington Cup..., After round three, two Americans share the lead.     
3       n-count   In a boxing or wrestling match, a round is one of the periods during which the boxers or wrestlers fight.  
usu adj N, N num  
He was declared the victor in the 11th round...     
4       n-count   A roundof golf is one game, usually including 18 holes.  
usu N of n, N of num  
...two rounds of golf...     
5       n-count   If you do your rounds or your round, you make a series of visits to different places or people, for example as part of your job.  
  (mainly BRIT)   usu supp N  
The consultants still did their morning rounds...     
in AM, usually use route     
6       n-count   If you buy a roundof drinks, you buy a drink for each member of the group of people that you are with.  
usu with supp  
They sat on the clubhouse terrace, downing a round of drinks...     
7       n-count   A roundof ammunition is the bullet or bullets released when a gun is fired.  
usu num N, N of n  
...firing 1650 rounds of ammunition during a period of ten minutes.     
8       n-count   If there is a roundof applause, everyone claps their hands to welcome someone or to show that they have enjoyed something.  
N of n  
Sue got a sympathetic round of applause.     
9       n-count   In music, a round is a simple song sung by several people in which each person sings a different part of the song at the same time.  
10    If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.  
♦ go the rounds      phrase   V inflects  
This story was going the rounds 20 years ago.     
11    If you make the rounds or do the rounds, you visit a series of different places.  
♦ make the rounds      phrase   V inflects, usu PHR of n  
After school, I had picked up Nick and Ted and made the rounds of the dry cleaner and the grocery store...     

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round   [3]     ( rounder    comparative)   ( roundest    superlative  )   (ADJECTIVE USES)  
1       adj   Something that is round is shaped like a circle or ball.  
She had small feet and hands and a flat, round face., ...the round church known as The New Temple.     
2       adj   A round number is a multiple of 10, 100, 1000, and so on. Round numbers are used instead of precise ones to give the general idea of a quantity or proportion.  
ADJ n  
A million pounds seemed a suitably round number.     

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round   [4]     ( rounds    3rd person present)   ( rounding    present participle)   ( rounded    past tense & past participle  )   (VERB USES)  
1       verb   If you round a place or obstacle, you move in a curve past the edge or corner of it.   (=go round)  
The house disappeared from sight as we rounded a corner...      V n  
2       verb   If you round an amount up or down, or if you round it off, you change it to the nearest whole number or nearest multiple of 10, 100, 1000 and so on.  
We needed to do decimals to round up and round down numbers...      V n with adv  
The fraction was then multiplied by 100 and rounded to the nearest half or whole number...      be V-ed to amount  
I'll round it off to about £30.      V n adv to amount  
3   
  →   rounded   round off      phrasal verb   If you round off an activity with something, you end the activity by doing something that provides a clear or satisfactory conclusion to it.  
The Italian way is to round off a meal with an ice-cream...      V P n (not pron)  
This rounded the afternoon off perfectly...      V n P  
He rounds off by proposing a toast to the attendants.      V P by -ing   round on      phrasal verb   If someone rounds on you, they criticize you fiercely and attack you with aggressive words.   (=attack)  
The Conservative Party rounded angrily on him for damaging the Government...      V P n   round up  
1       phrasal verb   If the police or army round up a number of people, they arrest or capture them.  
The police rounded up a number of suspects...      V P n (not pron)  
She says the patrolmen rounded them up at the village school and beat them with rifle butts.      V n P  
2       phrasal verb   If you round up animals or things, you gather them together.  
He had sought work as a cowboy, rounding up cattle...      V P n (not pron)  
3   
  →   round 2  
  →   roundup  

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round  
      adj  
1    annular, ball-shaped, bowed, bulbous, circular, curved, curvilinear, cylindrical, discoid, disc-shaped, globular, orbicular, ring-shaped, rotund, rounded, spherical  
2    complete, entire, full, solid, unbroken, undivided, whole  
3    ample, bounteous, bountiful, considerable, generous, great, large, liberal, substantial  
4    ample, fleshy, full, full-fleshed, plump, roly-poly, rotund, rounded  
5    full, mellifluous, orotund, resonant, rich, rotund, sonorous  
6    blunt, candid, direct, downright, frank, outspoken, plain, straightforward, unmodified  
      n  
7    ball, band, circle, disc, globe, orb, ring, sphere  
8    bout, cycle, sequence, series, session, succession  
9    division, lap, level, period, session, stage, turn  
10    ambit, beat, circuit, compass, course, routine, schedule, series, tour, turn  
11    bullet, cartridge, discharge, shell, shot  
      vb  
12    bypass, circle, circumnavigate, encircle, flank, go round, skirt, turn  

come round  
1    accede, acquiesce, allow, concede, grant, mellow, relent, yield  
2    come to, rally, recover, regain consciousness, revive  
3    call, drop in, pop in, stop by, visit  
get round  
1    bypass, circumvent, edge, evade, outmanoeuvre, skirt  
2      (informal)   cajole, coax, convert, persuade, prevail upon, talk round, wheedle, win over  
round off     
bring to a close, cap, close, complete, conclude, crown, finish off, put the finishing touch to, settle  
  
Antonyms     
   begin, commence, initiate, open, start  
round on     
abuse, attack, bite (someone's) head off     (informal)   have a go at     (Brit. slang)   lose one's temper with, retaliate, snap at, turn on, wade into  
round up     
assemble, bring together, collect, drive, gather, group, herd, marshal, muster, rally  

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round on, round up, round-up, round off

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a square peg in a round hole
exp.
a misfit; something or someone looking/behaving in a manner that comes in contradiction with the general context
rpm
n.
round per minute
Used for the rotational speed of gramophone records. Ex. : "45 rpm", "33 rpm", "78 rpm".

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