Phonetic: "/ˈɹaʊnd/"
Part Of Speech: noun
Definition: A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
Definition: A circular or repetitious route.
Example: The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon.
Definition: A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
Example: The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
Definition: A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
Definition: A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
Example: They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
Definition: A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
Definition: One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
Definition: A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
Definition: A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
Definition: One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
Definition: A stage, level, set of events in a game
Definition: (drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
Definition: A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
Example: All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
Definition: (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
Definition: A rung, as of a ladder.
Definition: A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
Definition: A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
Example: the round of the seasons a round of pleasures
Definition: A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
Definition: A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
Definition: A circular dance.
Definition: Rotation, as in office; succession.
Definition: A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
Definition: An assembly; a group; a circle.
Example: a round of politicians
Definition: A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
Definition: A vessel filled, as for drinking.
Definition: A round-top.
Definition: A round of beef.