Usually means: Circular shape with no edges.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. round: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. round, round: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. round, round: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. round: Collins English Dictionary
  5. round: Vocabulary.com
  6. Round, round: Wordnik
  7. round: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Round: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Round, 'round, round: Wiktionary
  10. round: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. round: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. round: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. 'round, round: Dictionary.com
  14. round (adj., adv.), round (n.), round (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. round: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Round (Theosophy), Round (music), Round (wine), Round, The Round: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Round: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. round: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. round: Rhymezone
  20. round, round: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. round: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ROUND: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Round, Round: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. round: Free Dictionary
  25. round: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  26. round: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. round: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Round: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. round: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Round: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. round: Medical dictionary
  4. Round: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ROUND: Acronym Finder
  3. round: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ROUND: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Round: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. round, round, round: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Round: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Sports (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Round: Dan's Poker
  2. round: Pinochle Glossary
  3. Round: Backgammon
  4. Round: Skydiving Glossary
  5. Round: Fifthchair Bridge
  6. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  7. Round: Gambling Glossary
  8. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  9. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. round: Golfer's Dictionary
  11. Round: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Round: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  5. round: Coin Collecting
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (physical) Of shape:
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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