How to pronounce “round”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (physical) Of shape:
• Complete, whole, not lacking.
• (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
• (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
• Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
• Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
• (obsolete) Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
• Large in magnitude.
• (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
• (architecture) Vaulted.
• Returning to its starting point.
• [Noun]
• A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
• A circular or repetitious route.
• A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
• (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
• A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
• A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
• (UK) One slice of bread.
• One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
• (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
• 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.
• (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
• A stage, level, set of events in a game
• (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
• A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
• (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
• (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
• A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
• A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
• A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
• A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
• A circular dance.
• Rotation, as in office; succession.
• A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
• An assembly; a group; a circle.
• A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
• (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
• (nautical) A round-top.
• [Preposition]
• (rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• (used postpositively, rare in US) Alternative form of around.
• [Adverb]
• Alternative form of around.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
• (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
• (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
• (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
• (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
• (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
• (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
• (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
• To encircle; to encompass.
• To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
• (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

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