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▸ adjective: Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
▸ adjective: Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
▸ adjective: Loosely or approximately circular.
▸ adjective: Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
▸ adjective: Plump.
▸ adjective: Complete, whole, not lacking.
▸ adjective: (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
▸ adjective: (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
▸ adjective: Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
▸ adjective: Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
▸ adjective: Large in magnitude.
▸ adjective: (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
▸ adjective: (architecture) Vaulted.
▸ adjective: Returning to its starting point.
▸ noun: A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
▸ noun: A circular or repetitious route.
▸ noun: A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
▸ noun: A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
▸ noun: A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
▸ noun: A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
▸ noun: (UK) One slice of bread.
▸ noun: One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
▸ noun: (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A stage, level, set of events in a game
▸ noun: (sports) A stage in a competition.
▸ noun: (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
▸ noun: (video games) A stage or level of a game.
▸ noun: (card games) The play after each deal.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
▸ noun: (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
▸ noun: (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
▸ noun: A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
▸ noun: A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
▸ noun: A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
▸ noun: A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
▸ noun: A circular dance.
▸ noun: Rotation, as in office; succession.
▸ noun: A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
▸ noun: An assembly; a group; a circle.
▸ noun: A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
▸ noun: (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
▸ noun: (nautical) A round-top.
▸ noun: A round of beef.
▸ verb: (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
▸ verb: (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
▸ verb: (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
▸ verb: To encircle; to encompass.
▸ verb: To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
▸ verb: (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
▸ verb: (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
▸ verb: (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
▸ noun: (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
▸ noun: (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ adverb: Alternative form of around [So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.]
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globular,
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