round1 adverb, prepositionround2 adjectiveround3 nounround4 verb
roundround1 /raʊnd/ ●●● S2 W2 especially British English (also around) adverb, preposition 
Longman Language Activatoraround someone or something
also round British completely surrounding or enclosing someone or something: · A group of students sat around the table chatting.· She was wearing a silver chain round her neck.· On the kitchen table was a package with tape wrapped around it.all around/all round: · Enemy soldiers were now all around us.· At the bottom of the hill was a small pond with trees all round.
if something is around you on all sides or on every side , you see it everywhere and you may feel that you are unable to move or escape because of it: · Mountains rose steeply on all sides.from all sides: · There was the sound of gunfire from all sides.
to be surrounded by something if someone or something is surrounded by people or things, those people or things are around them on every side: · The tops of the hills were surrounded by clouds.· Jill sat on the floor surrounded by boxes.
if something is ringed by things, those things form a circle around it: · Hoover Dam is ringed by snow-capped mountains that reach high above the desert plain.· Fifteen minutes after the explosion, the embassy was ringed by police officers and armed guards.
if something that you are looking at is framed by something, you see it within the borders of that thing: · I could see the church tower framed by the windows.· Her small face was framed by a mass of red hair
to form a wall or covering around something that keeps it separate from everything outside it: · The fence enclosing the prison compound is constantly patrolled by armed guards.be enclosed by something: · The garden was completely enclosed by a high wall.· The fish live in a shallow tropical lagoon, which is enclosed by a coral reef.be enclosed in something: · Jerry had to spend two months enclosed in a huge plastic bubble, to prevent him from catching germs from other children.
to move into a position around someone or something to stand in a circle around someone or something, especially to prevent someone escaping: · Football fans ran onto the field and surrounded the referee.· Police officers moved to surround Evans as he came out of the courtroom.
also gather round if a group of people gathers around someone or something, they move nearer to them, for example in order to see or hear better: · A crowd of young boys had gathered round to admire the car.gather around somebody/something: · After supper we gathered around the kitchen table and listened to Grandma tell stories about her childhood.
if a group of people encircle someone or something, they move so that they are completely around them, making it impossible for them to escape: · Troops encircled the city and began firing rockets at the government buildings.· The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.
also crowd round British if a group of people crowds around someone or something, they stand near them closely together, often pushing forward to see what is happening: · Fire officers asked the people who had crowded round to stand back.crowd around somebody/something: · Dozens of journalists crowded around the Princess and started asking her questions.
moving in a circle or moving around something also round British use this after verbs of movement, to show that someone or something is moving in a circle or moving around something: go/fly/travel/run etc around: · The Earth goes around the Sun.· The helicopter flew round and round above us.
if someone or something moves in circles , they move around in a circle several times: · Birds flew in circles above the lake.· As the dog got more and more excited, it started running around in circles.
especially written to move around someone or something in a circle: · The plane circled the airport several times before landing.circle around/above: · As we walked along the beach, I could see seagulls circling above the cliffs.
to go around the Earth, the Moon, the Sun etc in a continuous circular movement: · The satellite will orbit the Earth for the next 15 years.· The team confirmed the discovery of a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.
shaped like a ball · The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.· His bald round head reminded her of Sam.· European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.· His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · Edam cheeses are small and spherical in shape.· The earth is not quite spherical, because it is slightly flat at the poles.· La Geode, in Paris, is a unique spherical building with a cinema inside.
shaped like a circle · Violet stared at him with huge round eyes.· In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.· She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
shaped exactly like a circle: · The cattle are kept in a large circular enclosure.· The planets follow almost circular orbits around the sun.· The Villa Madama has a circular courtyard with rooms leading off it in all directions.
shaped like a circle with slightly flat sides: · The portrait hung in an oval frame on the wall.· Some of the tables are oval in shape and some are round.
an object shaped like a ball · Shape the cookie dough into balls and put them in the refrigerator.· When hedgehogs are in danger, they curl their bodies into tight balls.ball of · The kitten was playing with a ball of yarn.· Comets are balls of ice and dirt that circle the sun.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · At the top of each column is a perfect sphere of white marble.· The volume of a sphere is equal to twice the square of its radius, multiplied by pi.
a ball-shaped object, especially one that is used for decoration: · For the occasion the town square was lit up by coloured globes strung together.· The stuffed birds had been encased in glass globes.
with curved or slightly round sides neither straight nor completely round: · The entrance is formed by two curved rows of large stones.· The bird uses its long curved bill to dig out worms and small insects.· Shaving mirrors are slightly curved in order to magnify the image.
a rounded surface does not have any sharp edges or points: · The knife had a rounded wooden handle.· Her nails were perfectly rounded and painted with delicate pink nail-polish.· The blocks have rounded edges that are safer for small children.
shaped like a tube formal a tubular object is hollow and shaped like a tube: · Inside a bicycle tire is a long tubular piece of rubber.· It was a shaky little card table with legs of tubular metal.· The Renaissance Center is a huge tubular steel and glass shopping mall.
a cylindrical object has straight sides and flat round ends: · The cylindrical glass jars are used for keeping spaghetti in.· Roll the bread dough into a cylindrical shape.· a cylindrical marble column
at the back of something and usually hidden by it at or towards the back of something, and often hidden by it: · The sun went behind a cloud.· Put a cushion behind you. You'll feel more comfortable.· I got stuck behind a truck on the way to the airport.
British /in (the) back American behind something, especially a building: · There's a small garden at the back.· You can park your car in back.· Their house has a pool in the back.at the back of: · The tennis courts were at the back of the main school building.
written behind something, especially something large: at/to the rear of: · They parked in a small carpark at the rear of the hotel.· To the rear of the house is an old shed.
British informal to or in a place behind a building: · We need to go round the back. I don't have keys to the front door.
to make someone conscious again British /bring somebody around American to make someone conscious, especially someone who has been unconscious for a short time: · Paramedics eventually brought the man around.· Elsie had fainted in the heat, and they were having difficulty bringing her round.
to persuade someone that something is true, right, or good to make someone feel completely sure that something is true or right, especially when they doubted it before: · I knew it would be hard to convince my father, because he wanted me to go to university.convince somebody (that): · The government is trying to convince the public that it's getting tough on corruption.convince somebody of something: · In the end she convinced the jury of her innocence.
to make someone believe that something is true or right, especially when they doubted it before: persuade somebody (that): · He eventually managed to persuade me that the documents were genuine.· After this accident, it will be difficult for the government to persuade people that nuclear power stations are safe.persuade somebody of something: · We want to persuade them of the value of diplomacy and talks to resolve disputes.
to give enough information to make someone in authority believe that something is true: · Her explanation failed to satisfy the jury.satisfy somebody (that): · Applicants will have to satisfy the committee that they are suitable for the job.be satisfied with/that (=accept something as true): · The police said that they were satisfied with his story and let him go free.
to persuade someone to support your ideas or opinions, by making them believe that you are right, or by being nice to them: · He could not be won over by bribes or promises.win somebody over/win over somebody: · Cochran's arguments won over the jury.win sb over to: · Doctors who saw her work were quickly won over to her methods.
British /bring somebody around American to persuade someone to change their opinion so that they agree with you, especially by spending a long time talking to them and giving them reasons why you are right: · At first my parents didn't like the idea, but I think I've managed to bring them round.· I'll have to talk my mother round, but I'm sure she'll say yes.bring/talk sb round to: · In the end I brought him around to my point of view.
to change someone's opinion or beliefs about something, so that they begin to like it or believe it is right: · I didn't use to like Indian food, but Cathy's converted me.convert somebody to something: · Concerns about cruel farming methods converted her to vegetarianism.
to persuade a lot of people or most people to support what you are doing and believe that it is right - used especially in political contexts: · It's no use giving people short term sweeteners - what we have to do is to go out there and win hearts and minds.· If they succeed in winning the hearts and minds of the ethnic minorities here, they should sweep into power at the next election.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
The ballroom’s huge, with windows all the way round. There was a lovely courtyard with tables all round. changes that are affecting the weather all round the world He stared at the washing machine, just watching the clothes go round and round. a shoal of tiny fish swimming round in circles I watched the two boys disappear round the corner. Do you live round here? He owned all the land round about (=in the surrounding area). strategies to get round (=solve) the problemCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. Christine edged her way round the back of the house. an endless round of boring meetings There are no good pubs round here. Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.
The ballroom’s huge, with windows all the way round. There was a lovely courtyard with tables all round. changes that are affecting the weather all round the world He stared at the washing machine, just watching the clothes go round and round. a shoal of tiny fish swimming round in circles I watched the two boys disappear round the corner. Do you live round here? He owned all the land round about (=in the surrounding area). strategies to get round (=solve) the problem She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. British English (=behind a house or building) Have you looked round the back?
Have you looked round the back?· Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
· He rounded the bend much too fast.
(=all day and all night)· He needs round-the-clock care.
· Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
(=come around it)· A tall good-looking man rounded the corner.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
· Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
Christine edged her way round the back of the house. (=including a balance of lots of different subjects)· The school offers a good all-round education.
an endless round of boring meetings (=enough of something for everyone to have some) Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?· The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(=to the nearest 10, 20, 100 etc)· In round figures, about 20 million people emigrated from Europe during that period.
(=a complete game of golf)· He invited me to join him for a round of golf.
There are no good pubs round here. (=one part of a series of negotiations)· the next round of negotiations on trade barriers
(=a number ending in zero)· A hundred is a nice round number.
Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. (=one set of redundancies in a series)· The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.
A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. (=when everyone can discuss things in an equal way)· An election law, agreed during round-table talks, gave every voter the right to two votes.
(=a series of talks that is part of a longer process)· A third round of talks was held in May.
(=a journey to a place and back again)· His wife makes a hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week.
Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► all round► big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc► clip somebody round the ear/earhole► pale-faced/round-faced etc► get round something► get round somebody► the milk round► have a (good) root round► see around/round something► a square peg in a round hole► talk somebody around/round
- Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
- But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
- I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
- If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
- With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
- You might get a clip round the ear.
- Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
- I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
- Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
- She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
- She peered round the corner of the house.
- She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
- The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
- There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
- Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
- Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
- He looks around him at everybody watching.
- I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
- In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
- My heart sank as I looked around.
- Two old ladies look round in my direction.
- When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
- This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
- It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
- It only works the other way round.
- Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
- Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
- Right now, that is the other way around.
- The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
- What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
- But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
- Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
- Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
- It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
- Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
- Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
- There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
- Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
- A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
- Get people talking round a subject.
- He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
- In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
- It was the talk around the base.
- Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
- We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
- We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
- Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
- You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- It's Sally's birthday tomorrow. We'd better have a whip-round so we can get her a present.
- Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
- Centrally heated and open all year round.
- Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
- It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
- Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
- Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
- Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
- We have witches all year round.
WORD FAMILYnounroundroundersroundnessadjectiveroundroundedadverbroundroundlyverbround
1surrounding or on all sides of something or someone: We sat round the table playing cards. Gather round! I have an important announcement to make. He put his arm gently round her waist. I kept the key on a chain round my neck. The ballroom’s huge, with windows all the way round. There was a lovely courtyard with tables all round.2used to say that someone or something turns so that they face in the opposite direction: When he turned round I recognised him immediately. Graham glanced round, startled by the voice behind him.3in or to many places or parts of an area: Reggie went round making sure all the lights were off. Leah showed me round on my first day at the office. A guide took us round the palace and gardens. He spent a whole year travelling round Europe. She looked round the room as though leaving it for the last time. changes that are affecting the weather all round the world4moving in a circle: She watched the clock hands go round. An aeroplane was circling round far overhead. Until the 16th century people believed that the Sun went round the Earth. He stared at the washing machine, just watching the clothes go round and round. a shoal of tiny fish swimming round in circles5informal if you go round to someone’s house, you go to their house, usually to visit them: I might go round to Nigel’s this evening. He’s invited us round for dinner. We’ll be round (=will arrive) at seven.6to other people or positions: A big box of chocolates was handed round. He’d moved his furniture round.7on the other side of something, or to the other side of it without going through it or over it: He ran round to open Kate’s door for her. There must be another entrance round the back. I watched the two boys disappear round the corner.round to She came round to his side of the desk.8in the area near a particular place: Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture. Do you live round here? He owned all the land round about (=in the surrounding area).9round about spoken informal (also round) used when guessing a number, amount, time etc without being exact SYN approximately: We got there round about half past nine. He’s round about the same age as my son. It must have been round midnight when I saw him.10used to show that someone spends time in a place without doing anything useful: People were just standing round and not doing anything to help.11if something is organized round a particular person or thing, it is organized according to their needs, wishes, ideas etc: Working from home, she could arrange her hours round her children. He had built his whole existence round her.12a way round a difficult situation or problem is a way to solve it or avoid it: She’s going to have to buy a car. I can’t see any other way round it. strategies to get round (=solve) the problem13used to show the length of a line surrounding something: The park was about five miles round. → all round, → go round in circles at circle1(5), → (a)round the clock at clock1(2), → (just) around/round the corner at corner1(9), → first/second time round at time1(3), → way round at way1(24)round1 adverb, prepositionround2 adjectiveround3 nounround4 verb
roundround2 ●●● S1 W2 adjective WORD ORIGINround2
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French roont, from Latin rotundusEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a short round man
- European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.
- He wore round glasses with wire rims.
- His bald round head reminded her of Sam.
- His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
- In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.
- It probably costs more, but $200 is a nice round number.
- She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
- The moon was perfectly round that night.
- The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.
- Violet stared at him with her huge round eyes.
- His large round eyes probed Miguel that first time, as if he could look inside with ease.
- It's sunglasses all round as our richly-coiffed Tory front benchers try to fight eye-strain caused by their chrome-domed pinko opponents.
- Some women ground corn or wheat on huge round stones.
- The round dining table is dark rosewood with a matching set of chairs.
- The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.
Longman Language Activatoraround someone or something
also round British completely surrounding or enclosing someone or something: · A group of students sat around the table chatting.· She was wearing a silver chain round her neck.· On the kitchen table was a package with tape wrapped around it.all around/all round: · Enemy soldiers were now all around us.· At the bottom of the hill was a small pond with trees all round.
if something is around you on all sides or on every side , you see it everywhere and you may feel that you are unable to move or escape because of it: · Mountains rose steeply on all sides.from all sides: · There was the sound of gunfire from all sides.
to be surrounded by something if someone or something is surrounded by people or things, those people or things are around them on every side: · The tops of the hills were surrounded by clouds.· Jill sat on the floor surrounded by boxes.
if something is ringed by things, those things form a circle around it: · Hoover Dam is ringed by snow-capped mountains that reach high above the desert plain.· Fifteen minutes after the explosion, the embassy was ringed by police officers and armed guards.
if something that you are looking at is framed by something, you see it within the borders of that thing: · I could see the church tower framed by the windows.· Her small face was framed by a mass of red hair
to form a wall or covering around something that keeps it separate from everything outside it: · The fence enclosing the prison compound is constantly patrolled by armed guards.be enclosed by something: · The garden was completely enclosed by a high wall.· The fish live in a shallow tropical lagoon, which is enclosed by a coral reef.be enclosed in something: · Jerry had to spend two months enclosed in a huge plastic bubble, to prevent him from catching germs from other children.
to move into a position around someone or something to stand in a circle around someone or something, especially to prevent someone escaping: · Football fans ran onto the field and surrounded the referee.· Police officers moved to surround Evans as he came out of the courtroom.
also gather round if a group of people gathers around someone or something, they move nearer to them, for example in order to see or hear better: · A crowd of young boys had gathered round to admire the car.gather around somebody/something: · After supper we gathered around the kitchen table and listened to Grandma tell stories about her childhood.
if a group of people encircle someone or something, they move so that they are completely around them, making it impossible for them to escape: · Troops encircled the city and began firing rockets at the government buildings.· The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.
also crowd round British if a group of people crowds around someone or something, they stand near them closely together, often pushing forward to see what is happening: · Fire officers asked the people who had crowded round to stand back.crowd around somebody/something: · Dozens of journalists crowded around the Princess and started asking her questions.
moving in a circle or moving around something also round British use this after verbs of movement, to show that someone or something is moving in a circle or moving around something: go/fly/travel/run etc around: · The Earth goes around the Sun.· The helicopter flew round and round above us.
if someone or something moves in circles , they move around in a circle several times: · Birds flew in circles above the lake.· As the dog got more and more excited, it started running around in circles.
especially written to move around someone or something in a circle: · The plane circled the airport several times before landing.circle around/above: · As we walked along the beach, I could see seagulls circling above the cliffs.
to go around the Earth, the Moon, the Sun etc in a continuous circular movement: · The satellite will orbit the Earth for the next 15 years.· The team confirmed the discovery of a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.
shaped like a ball · The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.· His bald round head reminded her of Sam.· European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.· His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · Edam cheeses are small and spherical in shape.· The earth is not quite spherical, because it is slightly flat at the poles.· La Geode, in Paris, is a unique spherical building with a cinema inside.
shaped like a circle · Violet stared at him with huge round eyes.· In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.· She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
shaped exactly like a circle: · The cattle are kept in a large circular enclosure.· The planets follow almost circular orbits around the sun.· The Villa Madama has a circular courtyard with rooms leading off it in all directions.
shaped like a circle with slightly flat sides: · The portrait hung in an oval frame on the wall.· Some of the tables are oval in shape and some are round.
an object shaped like a ball · Shape the cookie dough into balls and put them in the refrigerator.· When hedgehogs are in danger, they curl their bodies into tight balls.ball of · The kitten was playing with a ball of yarn.· Comets are balls of ice and dirt that circle the sun.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · At the top of each column is a perfect sphere of white marble.· The volume of a sphere is equal to twice the square of its radius, multiplied by pi.
a ball-shaped object, especially one that is used for decoration: · For the occasion the town square was lit up by coloured globes strung together.· The stuffed birds had been encased in glass globes.
with curved or slightly round sides neither straight nor completely round: · The entrance is formed by two curved rows of large stones.· The bird uses its long curved bill to dig out worms and small insects.· Shaving mirrors are slightly curved in order to magnify the image.
a rounded surface does not have any sharp edges or points: · The knife had a rounded wooden handle.· Her nails were perfectly rounded and painted with delicate pink nail-polish.· The blocks have rounded edges that are safer for small children.
shaped like a tube formal a tubular object is hollow and shaped like a tube: · Inside a bicycle tire is a long tubular piece of rubber.· It was a shaky little card table with legs of tubular metal.· The Renaissance Center is a huge tubular steel and glass shopping mall.
a cylindrical object has straight sides and flat round ends: · The cylindrical glass jars are used for keeping spaghetti in.· Roll the bread dough into a cylindrical shape.· a cylindrical marble column
shaped like a circle shaped like a circle: · In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.· Violet stared at him with her huge round eyes.· The moon was perfectly round that night.
shaped like a circle, or moving in the shape of a circle: · The cattle are kept in a large enclosure surrounded by a circular fence.· The villa has a circular courtyard with rooms leading off it in all directions.· The procession follows a circular route through the town, and finishes back in the park.
having a particular shape use this to say what shape something is: · The windows were round, like the windows on a ship.· "What shape is the table?" "It's long and rectangular."be round/square etc in shape: · There was another building, octagonal in shape, close by.
use this to say that something has the same shape as something else: star-shaped/heart-shaped/L-shaped etc: · He gave me a necklace with a heart-shaped locket.· Gus lived in an apartment in a U-shaped courtyard.shaped like: · On the table were salt and pepper shakers shaped like teddy bears.
use this to say that something has the same shape as something else: · a beautiful blue bowl in the shape of a flower· There was a big chocolate cake in the shape of a heart on the main table.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. Christine edged her way round the back of the house. an endless round of boring meetings There are no good pubs round here. Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
(=expressed as the nearest 10, 100, 1,000 etc) Altogether, in round figures, there are about three thousand students here.
Altogether, in round figures, there are about three thousand students here. (=a complete hundred etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. British English (=behind a house or building) Have you looked round the back?
Have you looked round the back?· Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
· He rounded the bend much too fast.
(=all day and all night)· He needs round-the-clock care.
· Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
(=come around it)· A tall good-looking man rounded the corner.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
· Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
Christine edged her way round the back of the house. (=including a balance of lots of different subjects)· The school offers a good all-round education.
an endless round of boring meetings (=enough of something for everyone to have some) Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?· The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(=to the nearest 10, 20, 100 etc)· In round figures, about 20 million people emigrated from Europe during that period.
(=a complete game of golf)· He invited me to join him for a round of golf.
There are no good pubs round here. (=one part of a series of negotiations)· the next round of negotiations on trade barriers
(=a number ending in zero)· A hundred is a nice round number.
Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. (=one set of redundancies in a series)· The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.
A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. (=when everyone can discuss things in an equal way)· An election law, agreed during round-table talks, gave every voter the right to two votes.
(=a series of talks that is part of a longer process)· A third round of talks was held in May.
(=a journey to a place and back again)· His wife makes a hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week.
Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.· She was young, with a round face and brown curly hair.· Nina had a round face, pale skin and short-cut hair.· A face rushed up to meet him, clear and lifelike; he stared into the sweet round face of his long-dead wife.· His round face seems small above his wide shoulders.· Their faces slipped through her mind, round faces and long faces, thin, fat, smiling, sombre.· Ted was the shortest with a very round face.· With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform.· He had a round face made jovial by bright, almost boyish eyes and eyebrows ridiculously small for a man his size.
· The relief showed instantly on their faces as the small round figure of their uncle filled the doorway.· Estimates for the delay, given in round figures, ranged from two to eight hours.· As the end of the decade approached, natural growth was carrying this towards a round figure of 50 million.· Twenty is a nice, round figure.· The LibDems, in round figures, had 45 percent, Conservatives 25 percent and Labour 17.· That's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots - say ten miles in round figures.· Never ask for a big round figure.
· The baby ones are as pretty and appealing as kittens with their little round heads.· She wore her mixed gray Afro closely cut to the shape of her round head.· Paulette thought the Prince disgustingly ugly: he was obnoxiously thin, with a bulbous round head on a ridiculously long neck.· There would be no need for the round head and the round socket.
· Design: round neck, long sleeve top and long johns, women's and men's designs available.· With its pretty round neck, softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail, it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers.· A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery.· A Crêpe-de-chine T-Top blouse with cap sleeves and a round neck bound in self cloth.· For a round neck, join one shoulder seam before estimating.· For a round neck, the band can be single or double thickness but a V-neck band can only be single thickness.· She had tried to soften the effect of long sleeves and a high round neck with a pair of pearl stud earrings.· Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck.
· Mr. Speaker: I think that the Hon. Member might start the round robin.· In a three-pair round robin tournament they finished ahead of Simon Jacob and Anthony Chapman.· Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4, 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase.· Cricket this year switches to an eight-aside round robin for under-12 teams, run over two days.
· On a small round table, polished for him by Dadda, was a bust of Tace.· A round table was covered with a white linen cloth and glistening silverware.· There was a paperback on the round table to the right of her chair.· They sat at a round table covered with a lace cloth.· A round table covered in cracked oilcloth stood bare of bowls, jugs, cups and saucers.· They dream of a great castle called Camelot and a round table that could seat 150 knights.· In the middle of the room was a round table covered with oilcloth, and four high-backed carved chairs set around it.
· Duncan charged £5-a-head for the 200-mile round trip to the new brewery.· The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.· Distributors would travel perhaps a 1,500-kilometre round trip to collect stocks of vehicle accessories.· Radio signals from Laurel to Mathilde and back will need 36 minutes to make the round trip.· The Rocky Mountaineer will continue to make one round trip a week in summer from Vancouver to Calgary.· However, it has scheduled three extra round trips between Phoenix and Las Vegas on Sunday, to accommodate people staying there.· This is a round trip of some 16 miles and on Skye counts as one of the easiest expeditions.· The round trip of some twelve miles is one of the finest of mountain expeditions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► all round► big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc► clip somebody round the ear/earhole► pale-faced/round-faced etc► get round something► get round somebody► the milk round► have a (good) root round► see around/round something► a square peg in a round hole► talk somebody around/round
- Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
- But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
- I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
- If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
- With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
- You might get a clip round the ear.
- Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
- I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
- Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
- She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
- She peered round the corner of the house.
- She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
- The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
- There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
- Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
- Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
- He looks around him at everybody watching.
- I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
- In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
- My heart sank as I looked around.
- Two old ladies look round in my direction.
- When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
- This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
- It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
- It only works the other way round.
- Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
- Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
- Right now, that is the other way around.
- The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
- What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
- But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
- Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
- Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
- It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
- Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
- Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
- There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
- Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
- A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
- Get people talking round a subject.
- He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
- In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
- It was the talk around the base.
- Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
- We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
- We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
- Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
- You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- It's Sally's birthday tomorrow. We'd better have a whip-round so we can get her a present.
- Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
- Centrally heated and open all year round.
- Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
- It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
- Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
- Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
- Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
- We have witches all year round.
WORD FAMILYnounroundroundersroundnessadjectiveroundroundedadverbroundroundlyverbround
1shaped like a circle: a big round table Jamie’s eyes grew round with delight.2shaped like a ball: small round berries3fat and curved: round chubby cheeks4[only before noun] a round number or figure is a whole number, often ending in 0: Let’s make it a round figure: say £50?in round figures (=expressed as the nearest 10, 100, 1,000 etc) Altogether, in round figures, there are about three thousand students here.a round hundred/dozen etc (=a complete hundred etc) → a square peg in a round hole at square1(12)—roundness noun [uncountable]round1 adverb, prepositionround2 adjectiveround3 nounround4 verb
roundround3 ●●○ noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Cut the carrots into half-inch rounds.
- Hamed won the fight in the seventh round.
- I'll buy the next round of beers.
- More than 30 rounds were fired at the guards.
- Purdue lost to Kansas State in the third round.
- But it isn't; it's the good rounds that bring you back.
- Cunningly simple: two contestants, three rounds and a panel of three celebrity judges.
- Last week in New York, he stopped respectable light heavyweight Merqui Sosa in only two rounds.
- The first four rounds are designed to produce 32 prize-winning county champions, who will then go forward to the national rounds.
- The heroes of the last round were perhaps Paul Clarkson and John Simpkins, the goalkeeper.
- The second round of voting is scheduled for May 5.
- To serve, place sauteed bread rounds on warm plates and arrange birds on top.
THESAURUSdescribing types of shapes
shaped like a square: · a square box
shaped like a circle: · a circular table
shaped like a semicircle: · a semicircular arch above the door
shaped like a triangle: · sails divided into triangular sections
shaped like a rectangle: · a simple rectangular building
shaped like an oval: · an oval swimming pool
shaped like a cylinder: · The statue is on top of a tall cylindrical column.
shaped like a ball: · The planet Saturn is not completely spherical.
one of several parts of a long process, which happen one after another: · At this stage of the election campaign, it is impossible to predict who will win.· She is still in the early stages of pregnancy.· Piaget famously divided childhood into four separate stages.· the opening stages of the race
one of the parts of a process that you have to do or deal with in order to go on to the next one: · The first step is to make a list of what you need.· What’s the next step?· You have to do this one step at a time.
one of the clearly separate stages of a process or activity, during which a type of activity takes place that is different from those in other phases: · the initial phase of the campaign· They were now entering the final phase of their journey.
one of the parts that an event or activity is divided into, especially talks or a sports competition: · the first round of the negotiations· the final round of the competition· The next round of the trade talks will be held in Geneva.
a specific time or moment during the course of something: · What do you really want at this point in your life?· By this point they were starting to feel more confident.
Longman Language Activatoraround someone or something also round British completely surrounding or enclosing someone or something: · A group of students sat around the table chatting.· She was wearing a silver chain round her neck.· On the kitchen table was a package with tape wrapped around it.all around/all round: · Enemy soldiers were now all around us.· At the bottom of the hill was a small pond with trees all round.
if something is around you on all sides or on every side , you see it everywhere and you may feel that you are unable to move or escape because of it: · Mountains rose steeply on all sides.from all sides: · There was the sound of gunfire from all sides.
to be surrounded by something if someone or something is surrounded by people or things, those people or things are around them on every side: · The tops of the hills were surrounded by clouds.· Jill sat on the floor surrounded by boxes.
if something is ringed by things, those things form a circle around it: · Hoover Dam is ringed by snow-capped mountains that reach high above the desert plain.· Fifteen minutes after the explosion, the embassy was ringed by police officers and armed guards.
if something that you are looking at is framed by something, you see it within the borders of that thing: · I could see the church tower framed by the windows.· Her small face was framed by a mass of red hair
to form a wall or covering around something that keeps it separate from everything outside it: · The fence enclosing the prison compound is constantly patrolled by armed guards.be enclosed by something: · The garden was completely enclosed by a high wall.· The fish live in a shallow tropical lagoon, which is enclosed by a coral reef.be enclosed in something: · Jerry had to spend two months enclosed in a huge plastic bubble, to prevent him from catching germs from other children.
to move into a position around someone or something to stand in a circle around someone or something, especially to prevent someone escaping: · Football fans ran onto the field and surrounded the referee.· Police officers moved to surround Evans as he came out of the courtroom.
also gather round if a group of people gathers around someone or something, they move nearer to them, for example in order to see or hear better: · A crowd of young boys had gathered round to admire the car.gather around somebody/something: · After supper we gathered around the kitchen table and listened to Grandma tell stories about her childhood.
if a group of people encircle someone or something, they move so that they are completely around them, making it impossible for them to escape: · Troops encircled the city and began firing rockets at the government buildings.· The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.
also crowd round British if a group of people crowds around someone or something, they stand near them closely together, often pushing forward to see what is happening: · Fire officers asked the people who had crowded round to stand back.crowd around somebody/something: · Dozens of journalists crowded around the Princess and started asking her questions.
moving in a circle or moving around something also round British use this after verbs of movement, to show that someone or something is moving in a circle or moving around something: go/fly/travel/run etc around: · The Earth goes around the Sun.· The helicopter flew round and round above us.
if someone or something moves in circles , they move around in a circle several times: · Birds flew in circles above the lake.· As the dog got more and more excited, it started running around in circles.
especially written to move around someone or something in a circle: · The plane circled the airport several times before landing.circle around/above: · As we walked along the beach, I could see seagulls circling above the cliffs.
to go around the Earth, the Moon, the Sun etc in a continuous circular movement: · The satellite will orbit the Earth for the next 15 years.· The team confirmed the discovery of a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.
shaped like a ball · The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.· His bald round head reminded her of Sam.· European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.· His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · Edam cheeses are small and spherical in shape.· The earth is not quite spherical, because it is slightly flat at the poles.· La Geode, in Paris, is a unique spherical building with a cinema inside.
shaped like a circle · Violet stared at him with huge round eyes.· In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.· She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
shaped exactly like a circle: · The cattle are kept in a large circular enclosure.· The planets follow almost circular orbits around the sun.· The Villa Madama has a circular courtyard with rooms leading off it in all directions.
shaped like a circle with slightly flat sides: · The portrait hung in an oval frame on the wall.· Some of the tables are oval in shape and some are round.
an object shaped like a ball · Shape the cookie dough into balls and put them in the refrigerator.· When hedgehogs are in danger, they curl their bodies into tight balls.ball of · The kitten was playing with a ball of yarn.· Comets are balls of ice and dirt that circle the sun.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · At the top of each column is a perfect sphere of white marble.· The volume of a sphere is equal to twice the square of its radius, multiplied by pi.
a ball-shaped object, especially one that is used for decoration: · For the occasion the town square was lit up by coloured globes strung together.· The stuffed birds had been encased in glass globes.
with curved or slightly round sides neither straight nor completely round: · The entrance is formed by two curved rows of large stones.· The bird uses its long curved bill to dig out worms and small insects.· Shaving mirrors are slightly curved in order to magnify the image.
a rounded surface does not have any sharp edges or points: · The knife had a rounded wooden handle.· Her nails were perfectly rounded and painted with delicate pink nail-polish.· The blocks have rounded edges that are safer for small children.
shaped like a tube formal a tubular object is hollow and shaped like a tube: · Inside a bicycle tire is a long tubular piece of rubber.· It was a shaky little card table with legs of tubular metal.· The Renaissance Center is a huge tubular steel and glass shopping mall.
a cylindrical object has straight sides and flat round ends: · The cylindrical glass jars are used for keeping spaghetti in.· Roll the bread dough into a cylindrical shape.· a cylindrical marble column
to buy something for someone else to buy something such as a meal for someone because you like them or you want to celebrate something: · As it's your birthday, I thought I'd treat you.treat somebody to something: · Glen treated Cathy to dinner at one of the best restaurants in town.
spoken use this to say that you will pay for drinks, food etc or that a particular person will pay for them : · Don't worry about the price - this meal's on me.be on the house (=the bar or restaurant you are in will pay for your meal, drinks etc): · The manager apologized and told us our drinks would be on the house for the rest of the evening.
to buy a drink for everyone in the group that you are with, in a place which sells alcoholic drinks: · I'll get this round. What would you like?· Jack always leaves when it's his turn to buy a round.
WORD SETSbirdie, nounbirdie, verbbogey, nounbogie, nounbogie, verbbunker, nouncaddy, nouncaddy, verbcup, noundriver, nounfairway, noungolf ball, noungolf club, noungolf course, noungolf links, noungreen, nounhole, nounhole, verbiron, nounloft, verbmishit, verbpar, nounpitch, verbpitch-and-putt, nounpull, nounputt, verbputter, nounputting green, nounround, nounrubber, nounsandtrap, nounsink, verbswing, nountee, nountrap, nounwood, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYphrases She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. Christine edged her way round the back of the house. an endless round of boring meetings There are no good pubs round here. Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· A second round of talks got under way this week.
· In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote,
(=when a government or a company reduces the size or amount of something)· The president is likely to approve a new round of cuts in military forces.
(=when people are told to leave their jobs)· The latest round of layoffs could bring its labor force down to 60,000.
· What has prompted the latest round of violence?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. British English (=behind a house or building) Have you looked round the back?
Have you looked round the back?· Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
· He rounded the bend much too fast.
(=all day and all night)· He needs round-the-clock care.
· Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
(=come around it)· A tall good-looking man rounded the corner.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
· Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
Christine edged her way round the back of the house. (=including a balance of lots of different subjects)· The school offers a good all-round education.
an endless round of boring meetings (=enough of something for everyone to have some) Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?· The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(=to the nearest 10, 20, 100 etc)· In round figures, about 20 million people emigrated from Europe during that period.
(=a complete game of golf)· He invited me to join him for a round of golf.
There are no good pubs round here. (=one part of a series of negotiations)· the next round of negotiations on trade barriers
(=a number ending in zero)· A hundred is a nice round number.
Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. (=one set of redundancies in a series)· The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.
A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. (=when everyone can discuss things in an equal way)· An election law, agreed during round-table talks, gave every voter the right to two votes.
(=a series of talks that is part of a longer process)· A third round of talks was held in May.
(=a journey to a place and back again)· His wife makes a hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week.
Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.· He said post-operative checks were also carried out as a matter of routine on patients during daily morning ward rounds.· After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.· For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster.· It seems J.F. Cooper played his daily rounds with only five clubs!
· If no list is submitted, then any list submitted in earlier rounds will be deemed still to apply.· In earlier rounds there were two notable casualties.· Canoe-Kayak: The sprint competition begins, and the scene shifts to Lake Lanier for early rounds in six classes.· It is the way Biggs fights and he can be expected to steal the early rounds.
· It saves me getting involved in all that endless round of relatives.· People who do so condemn themselves to an endless round of debate over something they can never achieve.
· The final round of judging is next month.· While there is a certain grubby vitality to the show, it wears thin long before the final round of moralizing.· The back nine of that final round would again decide.· It was also the day of the final round of the Masters.· Toney made the last day and the final two rounds, and I was on my way.· Wright flew back to cover the final round of the tourney.· Phil Mickelson's final-round 66 set a target of 14 under par.· The final round was a wild one, and not just from the leaders' standpoint.
· De Klerk begins fresh round of discussions.· International concern was reflected in a fresh round of criticism.
· Newslines Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol.· In the latest round of polls, Peres holds a 5 percentage point lead over Netanyahu.· Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger.· He talked with Hardaway, delivered the latest in a round of lectures designed to soothe his client.· Voice over There's concern the programme could have prompted the latest round of violence.· Sir Peter was responding to the latest round of monopoly accusations.
· Officially there is widespread backing for a new round.· The announcement of her decisions in mid-June promises a new round of controversy.· Last month, Total Entertainment completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $ 12 million.· She and other attorneys predicted a new round of lawsuits for trademark infringement.· Next came the inaugural luncheon and a new round of insincere bipartisan pieties.· A new computing approach: a whole new round of investment?· That has prompted top Dole advisers here to urge a new round of much tougher ads attacking Forbes.
· We will however be publishing a special feature on the preliminary and first rounds, carrying score-cards and photographs wherever possible.· Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists.
· One evening in late November, he did his usual round of the buildings to check his animals before going to bed.· Steve Francis got his usual round of jeers in the city he spurned.
VERB· De Klerk begins fresh round of discussions.· The artillery began firing beehive rounds, which I had never seen before at minimum elevation.· A decision will take another week, after Scalfaro begins a third round of meetings with political leaders.· From almost the first day, she and her husband had begun the round of public hospitals and clinics.
· After completing three rounds of the Barkhor we left to return to the nunnery separately.· Last month, Total Entertainment completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $ 12 million.
· Striding boldly over I fired a sharp round of insults.· One of the tanks was firing beehive rounds point-blank.· Gunmen fired more than 100 rounds into his black Chevrolet Suburban, killing him instantly.· Just prior to our assault, they had fired 6, 000 rounds of artillery and bombed it all morning.· The artillery began firing beehive rounds, which I had never seen before at minimum elevation.· Then Charlie started firing mortar rounds.· During an ambush we sprung near Hoc Mon, I remember firing 25 to 30 rounds as fast as I could.
· He made rounds throughout the night, checking on the oxen and buffaloes tethered in the field.· The Paladins are practically regulars here in the Old Pueblo, making their round of Tucson stages on an almost quarterly basis.· And when our constable makes the rounds, interviewing her daughter's friends, what do they do?· It was what modern people here said about themselves, a word that was making the rounds.· He makes the rounds of all the schools each year and pitches the fourth-and fifth-graders.· One example was Pedro. l first met Pedro while I was making rounds in the hospital in 1960.· These are three big lies that nutritionists and obesity experts say are making the rounds this season.· Louis Blues first made the rounds.
· The tournament was played over three rounds as a result of local government elections and the imposition of travel restrictions.· If his vision clears right away, Miller could be playing in the first round of the playoffs.· He played in all four rounds and was still able to take the weekend off.· He's played many good rounds and usually has one bad one per tournament.· Any opponent we play in the first round is going to be tough.· The full hand was as shown below: - Note what happens if declarer plays 2 rounds of trumps before proceeding.· They eat, play sixteen rounds, feast again, then tell stories.
· He won the third round of the Isle of Man Archery League long metric three.· It was the first time Gibson had won a round this year.· Philip Jackson won the second round of the club's float only league at Bond's Bridge.· Now Bush has regained his position as frontrunner by winning the first unofficial rounds of the campaign.· Then, in 1994, Clinton won a round when the Senate approved Deval Patrick without much controversy.· The first team to guess correctly wins the round.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► round of sandwiches► round of something► roundsPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► all round► big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc► clip somebody round the ear/earhole► pale-faced/round-faced etc► get round something► get round somebody► the milk round► have a (good) root round► see around/round something► a square peg in a round hole► talk somebody around/round
- The first offered to do the rounds for five dollars.
- Without references, letters may do the rounds of various desks before the correct destination is found.
- Without references, letters may do the rounds of various desks before the correct destination is found.
- The evening ended with a final round of toasts.
- Top with the remaining rounds of toast.
- A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration.
- Consider, for example, two mural paintings in the round temple at Epidaurus, once an internationally famed health clinic.
- In future, officers received specialist military training only after they had been educated in the round.
- Later in the round, on the par-four twelfth, he faced a yard approach shot into a ten-knot wind.
- Lying on silk in the round leather box was a bracelet.
- Sculpted or molded objects are best seen in the round.
- This does not imply that Rassendyll is developed as a character in the round.
- Not a Cal Ripken pent-up emotional outburst kind of ovation, mind you, but a nice little round of applause.
- Oh boy I need a round of applause.
- That got a rapturous round of applause too. emailinc Yeah, great!
- The team gives Ted a round of applause.
- The whistling sounded like feedback, and his hammering on the piano became a dying round of applause.
- There was a round of applause for Captain Pintar.
- To a round of applause, Mrs Fanning was escorted back to the table by her partner.
- When Wooley, who is a witty and vigorously persuasive speaker, finished, she received a big round of applause.
- Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
- But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
- I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
- If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
- With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
- You might get a clip round the ear.
- Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
- I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
- Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
- She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
- She peered round the corner of the house.
- She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
- The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
- There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
- Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
- Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
- He looks around him at everybody watching.
- I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
- In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
- My heart sank as I looked around.
- Two old ladies look round in my direction.
- When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
- This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
- It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
- It only works the other way round.
- Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
- Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
- Right now, that is the other way around.
- The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
- What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
- But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
- Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
- Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
- It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
- Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
- Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
- There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
- Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
- A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
- Get people talking round a subject.
- He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
- In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
- It was the talk around the base.
- Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
- We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
- We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
- Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
- You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- It's Sally's birthday tomorrow. We'd better have a whip-round so we can get her a present.
- Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
- Centrally heated and open all year round.
- Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
- It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
- Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
- Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
- Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
- We have witches all year round.
WORD FAMILYnounroundroundersroundnessadjectiveroundroundedadverbroundroundlyverbround
1series a round of events is a series of related events, which are part of a longer processround of a third round of peace talks the Government’s latest round of expenditure cuts2competition one of the parts of a competition that you have to finish or win before you can go on to the next partthe first/final/next/qualifying etc round I got beaten in the first round. Two of their candidates made it through to the next round.round of the final round of the championship3regular activities round of something a round of activities is a regular series of activities, especially activities that are not very exciting: an endless round of meetings and interviews He continued with his usual round of private and business engagements. the daily round of commuting and shopping4visits rounds [plural] the usual visits that someone, especially a doctor, regularly makes as part of their jobbe (out) on your rounds I’m sorry. The doctor is out on her rounds.5round of applause when people clap for a short time to show that they enjoyed something or approve of something: She got a big round of applause. The passengers gave the pilot a round of applause.6golf a complete game of golf: I played a round of golf on Sunday morning.7boxing/wrestling one of the periods of fighting in a boxing or wrestling match8drinks if you buy a round of drinks in a bar, you buy drinks for all the people in your groupit’s my/your etc round (=used to say whose turn it is to buy drinks for all the people in your group) What are you having? It’s my round.9do the rounds British English informal, make the rounds American English (also go the rounds British English) if a story, idea, or illness does the rounds, it is passed on from one person to another: a joke doing the rounds10do the rounds of something British English, make the rounds of something American English to go around from one place to another, especially looking for work or advertising something: Ryan is making the rounds of talk shows to promote her new movie.11gun shot a single shot from a gun, or a bullet for one shot: I’ve only got ten rounds of ammunition left. Richards fired a few rounds.12circle something that has a circular shape: Slice the potatoes into rounds.13food/newspapers/letters etc British English a regular visit to a number of houses, offices etc to deliver or sell thingspaper/milk round (=a job in which you deliver newspapers, milk etc to people’s houses) I used to do a paper round.14song a song for three or four singers, in which each one sings the same tune, starting at a different time15round of sandwiches British English sandwiches made from two whole pieces of bread16round of toast British English one whole piece of bread that has been toasted17in the round a play that is performed in the round is performed on a central stage surrounded by the people watching itCOLLOCATIONSphrasesa round of talks/negotiations/meetings· A second round of talks got under way this week.a round of voting· In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote,a round of cuts (=when a government or a company reduces the size or amount of something)· The president is likely to approve a new round of cuts in military forces.a round of layoffs (=when people are told to leave their jobs)· The latest round of layoffs could bring its labor force down to 60,000.a round of violence· What has prompted the latest round of violence?round1 adverb, prepositionround2 adjectiveround3 nounround4 verb
roundround4 ●○○ verb VERB TABLE
round
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | round |
| he, she, it | rounds | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | rounded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have rounded |
| he, she, it | has rounded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had rounded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will round |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have rounded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am rounding |
| he, she, it | is rounding | |
| you, we, they | are rounding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was rounding |
| you, we, they | were rounding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been rounding |
| he, she, it | has been rounding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been rounding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be rounding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been rounding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- As I rounded the corner, I could see that the house was on fire.
- The edges of the counter have been rounded to make them safer.
- Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.
- All that slim, rounded, unclothed flesh I'd seen - from the back - had not been girl flesh.
- Dear Jamie, Please remember to round your letters and curl your tails.
- Drop by rounded teaspoons on to a greased non-stick cookie sheet.
- He was rounded up about a week later, having stolen four more vehicles.
- The race for the nomination has rounded a corner.
- The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
- Their huts were short tepees protected by tree branches or rounded huts covered with animal skins.
Longman Language Activatoraround someone or something
also round British completely surrounding or enclosing someone or something: · A group of students sat around the table chatting.· She was wearing a silver chain round her neck.· On the kitchen table was a package with tape wrapped around it.all around/all round: · Enemy soldiers were now all around us.· At the bottom of the hill was a small pond with trees all round.
if something is around you on all sides or on every side , you see it everywhere and you may feel that you are unable to move or escape because of it: · Mountains rose steeply on all sides.from all sides: · There was the sound of gunfire from all sides.
to be surrounded by something if someone or something is surrounded by people or things, those people or things are around them on every side: · The tops of the hills were surrounded by clouds.· Jill sat on the floor surrounded by boxes.
if something is ringed by things, those things form a circle around it: · Hoover Dam is ringed by snow-capped mountains that reach high above the desert plain.· Fifteen minutes after the explosion, the embassy was ringed by police officers and armed guards.
if something that you are looking at is framed by something, you see it within the borders of that thing: · I could see the church tower framed by the windows.· Her small face was framed by a mass of red hair
to form a wall or covering around something that keeps it separate from everything outside it: · The fence enclosing the prison compound is constantly patrolled by armed guards.be enclosed by something: · The garden was completely enclosed by a high wall.· The fish live in a shallow tropical lagoon, which is enclosed by a coral reef.be enclosed in something: · Jerry had to spend two months enclosed in a huge plastic bubble, to prevent him from catching germs from other children.
to move into a position around someone or something to stand in a circle around someone or something, especially to prevent someone escaping: · Football fans ran onto the field and surrounded the referee.· Police officers moved to surround Evans as he came out of the courtroom.
also gather round if a group of people gathers around someone or something, they move nearer to them, for example in order to see or hear better: · A crowd of young boys had gathered round to admire the car.gather around somebody/something: · After supper we gathered around the kitchen table and listened to Grandma tell stories about her childhood.
if a group of people encircle someone or something, they move so that they are completely around them, making it impossible for them to escape: · Troops encircled the city and began firing rockets at the government buildings.· The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.
also crowd round British if a group of people crowds around someone or something, they stand near them closely together, often pushing forward to see what is happening: · Fire officers asked the people who had crowded round to stand back.crowd around somebody/something: · Dozens of journalists crowded around the Princess and started asking her questions.
moving in a circle or moving around something also round British use this after verbs of movement, to show that someone or something is moving in a circle or moving around something: go/fly/travel/run etc around: · The Earth goes around the Sun.· The helicopter flew round and round above us.
if someone or something moves in circles , they move around in a circle several times: · Birds flew in circles above the lake.· As the dog got more and more excited, it started running around in circles.
especially written to move around someone or something in a circle: · The plane circled the airport several times before landing.circle around/above: · As we walked along the beach, I could see seagulls circling above the cliffs.
to go around the Earth, the Moon, the Sun etc in a continuous circular movement: · The satellite will orbit the Earth for the next 15 years.· The team confirmed the discovery of a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi.
shaped like a ball · The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.· His bald round head reminded her of Sam.· European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.· His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · Edam cheeses are small and spherical in shape.· The earth is not quite spherical, because it is slightly flat at the poles.· La Geode, in Paris, is a unique spherical building with a cinema inside.
shaped like a circle · Violet stared at him with huge round eyes.· In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.· She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
shaped exactly like a circle: · The cattle are kept in a large circular enclosure.· The planets follow almost circular orbits around the sun.· The Villa Madama has a circular courtyard with rooms leading off it in all directions.
shaped like a circle with slightly flat sides: · The portrait hung in an oval frame on the wall.· Some of the tables are oval in shape and some are round.
an object shaped like a ball · Shape the cookie dough into balls and put them in the refrigerator.· When hedgehogs are in danger, they curl their bodies into tight balls.ball of · The kitten was playing with a ball of yarn.· Comets are balls of ice and dirt that circle the sun.
shaped like a ball - use this in technical contexts: · At the top of each column is a perfect sphere of white marble.· The volume of a sphere is equal to twice the square of its radius, multiplied by pi.
a ball-shaped object, especially one that is used for decoration: · For the occasion the town square was lit up by coloured globes strung together.· The stuffed birds had been encased in glass globes.
with curved or slightly round sides neither straight nor completely round: · The entrance is formed by two curved rows of large stones.· The bird uses its long curved bill to dig out worms and small insects.· Shaving mirrors are slightly curved in order to magnify the image.
a rounded surface does not have any sharp edges or points: · The knife had a rounded wooden handle.· Her nails were perfectly rounded and painted with delicate pink nail-polish.· The blocks have rounded edges that are safer for small children.
shaped like a tube formal a tubular object is hollow and shaped like a tube: · Inside a bicycle tire is a long tubular piece of rubber.· It was a shaky little card table with legs of tubular metal.· The Renaissance Center is a huge tubular steel and glass shopping mall.
a cylindrical object has straight sides and flat round ends: · The cylindrical glass jars are used for keeping spaghetti in.· Roll the bread dough into a cylindrical shape.· a cylindrical marble column
to catch someone and make them a prisoner to catch a person in order to make them a prisoner: · They've captured twenty enemy soldiers.· Cole was captured after his plane was shot down outside Hanoi.
to catch several people by bringing them together from different places: round up somebody: · Officers succeeded in rounding up most of the gang members.round somebody up: · People are saying that the civil guard rounded several of the protestors up and shot them.
to catch someone, especially in a war, and keep them as a prisoner: · Ellison was taken prisoner by the Germans during the retreat to Dunkirk.· Military police took Kilby prisoner and locked him in a barn.· 350 soldiers were killed and another 300 taken prisoner.
to catch someone for a second time when they have escaped after being caught once: · Viet Cong forces quickly recaptured the soldiers.· The prisoners were recaptured a few hours after their escape.
to finish a performance, speech, meeting etc · When Sir George finished his speech there was a moment's silence.finish/end something by doing something · The priest ended the service by saying a short prayer.finish/end something with something · She ended her recital with an old French song.
to gradually end an event or activity such as a meeting, making sure that it finishes at the right time: · About 40 minutes after the interview starts, the interviewer will signal to you to start winding up.wind up something: · He was fired and the board would give him no more time to wind up his affairs.wind something up: · Mark wanted to wind the meeting up quickly because he had a plane to catch.
to formally finish a meeting, lesson, process etc: · The committee has brought to a close one of the longest-running Senate investigations ever.· Efforts must continue to bring the conflict to an end.
to formally or officially end a meeting, public event, speech etc by doing one final thing: conclude something with something: · This year, Muslims will conclude Ramadan with the usual festivities on April 15 or 16.conclude with: · He concluded with an appeal to everyone to support the campaign.conclude by doing something: · I'd like to conclude by thanking everyone who has worked so hard to make this conference possible.
to do something as a way of ending an event, performance etc in a suitable or satisfactory way: round off something: · To round off National Peace Week, a concert was organized in the park.round something off with something: · She served us a splendid dinner, rounded off with a marvellous orange mousse.· They rounded off the day with a barbecue at the beach.
to complete an event, performance, piece of work etc by doing one final thing that is necessary or suitable: · Please finish off now. The test will end in three minutes.· You can finish up the puzzle tomorrow morning. It's time for bed now.finish off/up something by doing something: · We finished off our vacation by spending two days in Santa Fe.finish off/up something with something: · Dan finished up his act with a joke about the Vice-President.
WORD SETSarabesque, nounarc, nounarch, nounball, nounball, verbbar, nouncheck, nouncheckered, adjectivechevron, nouncoil, nounconical, adjectivecorrugated, adjectivecrescent, nouncrisscross, verbcrosswise, adverbcruciform, adjectivecube, nouncurl, verbcurl, nouncurvature, nouncurved, adjectivecurvy, adjectivecylinder, nouncylindrical, adjectivediagonal, adjectivediamond, noundisc, noundome, noundouble helix, nounellipse, nounelliptical, adjectivefloral, adjectiveformation, nounformless, adjectivegeometric, adjectiveglobe, nounglobular, adjectiveharlequin, adjectiveheart, nounhemisphere, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhoneycomb, nounhooked, adjectivehump, noun-iform, suffixlattice, nounMaltese Cross, nounmoon, nounmottled, adjectiveoblong, adjectiveoctagon, nounoval, nounovoid, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpeak, nounpentagon, nounpentagram, nounperimeter, nounpointed, adjectivepyramid, nounquadrangle, nounquadrilateral, nounradial, adjectiverectangle, nounrectangular, adjectiverectilinear, adjectiveregular, adjectivereticulated, adjectiverhomboid, nounrhomboid, adjectiverhombus, nounroll, nounround, adjectiveround, nounround, verbrounded, adjectivesemicircle, nounsolid, nounspatial, adjectivesphere, nounspiral, nounspotted, adjectivesquare, adjectivesquared, adjectivestar, nounstripe, nounstriped, adjectivestripy, adjectivesymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountabular, adjectivethree-cornered, adjectivethree-dimensional, adjectivetrapezium, nountrapezoid, nountrefoil, nountriangle, nountriangular, adjectivetubular, adjectiveundulate, verbvague, adjectiveveined, adjectiveV-formation, nounwavy, adjectivewhorl, nounwiggly, adjectivezigzag, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY As they rounded the bend and came in sight of the river, Philip took her hand.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. Christine edged her way round the back of the house. an endless round of boring meetings There are no good pubs round here. Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
As they rounded the bend and came in sight of the river, Philip took her hand. She got a round of applause (=a short period of applause) when she finished. British English (=behind a house or building) Have you looked round the back?
Have you looked round the back?· Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
· He rounded the bend much too fast.
(=all day and all night)· He needs round-the-clock care.
· Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
(=come around it)· A tall good-looking man rounded the corner.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
· Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
Christine edged her way round the back of the house. (=including a balance of lots of different subjects)· The school offers a good all-round education.
an endless round of boring meetings (=enough of something for everyone to have some) Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?· The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
· Her face was round and jolly.
(=to the nearest 10, 20, 100 etc)· In round figures, about 20 million people emigrated from Europe during that period.
(=a complete game of golf)· He invited me to join him for a round of golf.
There are no good pubs round here. (=one part of a series of negotiations)· the next round of negotiations on trade barriers
(=a number ending in zero)· A hundred is a nice round number.
Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round. (=one set of redundancies in a series)· The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.
A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon. our Friday sports round-up The dining room was square in shape. He started to slog his way up the hill. (=when everyone can discuss things in an equal way)· An election law, agreed during round-table talks, gave every voter the right to two votes.
(=a series of talks that is part of a longer process)· A third round of talks was held in May.
(=a journey to a place and back again)· His wife makes a hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week.
Forty police officers are working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping) to find Murray’s killer.· But there he was when I rounded a bend, holding a treasure he landed on this hunt.· A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry.· As Clark rounded a bend in the trail, he saw the wheelchair.· As if summoned by that anger, Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path, rod in hand.· As I rounded the final bend I came face to face with the water jump.· Then they rounded the bend by the Bahan shrine and dropped down into the darkness of the valley.· He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.
· It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she hadn't thanked him for walking her home.· But the tour revealed that the building has retained many treasures from its past: Its cathedral ceilings still have rounded corners.· As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks.· Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.· She rounded a corner quickly; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated.· He knew it would be gone before he rounded the corner.· Even nails stopped in his stride as they rounded the corner by the cinema queue.· The race for the nomination has rounded a corner.
· The blush rounded the curve of her bosom, red hot and rising.· The arms of the tee shirt barely rounded the curve of his shoulders, the hem hung an inch above his navel.· But as they descended, rounding the curve beneath the beautiful arched window, the hall below them revealed itself.· They rounded curve after curve in the darkness.· He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads.· I rounded the curve, looking for a place to pull in.
· While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip, the children would round off the day with sports.· To round off his day of despair Button was forced to retire with an exhaust failure six laps from home.
· Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.· The prongs had rounded edges that fit into finely finished grooves.· Although he sometimes rounded the rough edges off the truth, he remained an amusing raconteur and lively company.· Clinton is a lifelong politician with a gift for speaking with rounded edges designed to keep people happy and options open.· As they rounded the edge of the building, he could see that behind the house was a vast garden.· The wood is a brown color a little deeper than milk chocolate, smooth with rounded edges for aerodynamics.· When sanding take care not to round the sharp edges.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► all round► big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc► clip somebody round the ear/earhole► pale-faced/round-faced etc► get round something► get round somebody► the milk round► have a (good) root round► see around/round something► a square peg in a round hole► talk somebody around/round
- Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
- But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
- I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
- If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
- With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
- You might get a clip round the ear.
- Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
- I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
- Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
- She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
- She peered round the corner of the house.
- She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
- The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
- There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
- Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
- Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
- He looks around him at everybody watching.
- I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
- In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
- My heart sank as I looked around.
- Two old ladies look round in my direction.
- When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
- This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
- It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
- It only works the other way round.
- Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
- Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
- Right now, that is the other way around.
- The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
- What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
- But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
- Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
- Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
- It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
- Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
- Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
- There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
- Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
- A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
- Get people talking round a subject.
- He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
- In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
- It was the talk around the base.
- Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
- We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
- We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
- Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
- You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- It's Sally's birthday tomorrow. We'd better have a whip-round so we can get her a present.
- Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
- Centrally heated and open all year round.
- Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
- It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
- Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
- Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
- Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
- We have witches all year round.
WORD FAMILYnounroundroundersroundnessadjectiveroundroundedadverbroundroundlyverbround
1[transitive] to go round something such as a bend or the corner of a building: As they rounded the bend and came in sight of the river, Philip took her hand. The tide was coming in as he rounded the rocks.2[transitive] to make something into a round shape: The stones were then rounded, polished and engraved.3[intransitive] written if your eyes round, you open them wide because you are shocked, frightened etc: Barbara’s eyes rounded in surprise. → rounded, well-roundedround something ↔ down phrasal verb to reduce an exact figure to the nearest whole number: For the 1841 census it was decided to round down ages over fifteen to the nearest five.round something ↔ off phrasal verb1to do something as a way of ending an event, performance etc in a suitable or satisfactory way SYN finishround off with You can round off the evening with a visit to the nightclub. She rounded off the meal with some cheese. It was the perfect way to round off the season.2to take the sharp or rough edges off something: Round off the corners with a pair of scissors.3to change an exact figure to the nearest whole numberround off to Prices are rounded off to the nearest dollar.round on somebody phrasal verb British English to suddenly turn and attack someone when they do not expect it, either with words or physically: When the door closed, Crabb rounded on Edwards. ‘You stupid idiot!’round something ↔ out phrasal verb to make an experience more thorough or complete: African percussion and Native American flute round out the show.round somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verb1if police or soldiers round up a particular group of people, they find them and force them to go to prison: Thousands of men were rounded up and jailed.2to find and gather together a group of people, animals, or things: See if you can round up a few friends to help you! His dog Nell started to round up the sheep.3to increase an exact figure to the next highest whole number