round
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6.1
- noun
- /raʊnd/
- US
:
redondo
- Near the center of the room burned a small coal fire on a short round stand.
Examples
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For dinner, we grilled a juicy round steak that was tender and flavorful.
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Father Foster is a fit-looking man of fifty-four, with a round, ruddy, balding head and wire-rim glasses.
Academic text (1994) -
So he had lunch with them after all, at a round table before the big sitting-room window.
Fiction book (2002) -
Kempton and I take a big round table at the window in the bar.
Fiction book (1995) -
Decker started in the far left corner of the room, at a large round table for twelve.
Fiction book (1998) -
The family, Tully, and Margaret sit at a round table, the crystal ball in the center.
Fiction book (1991) -
The CAM glides gently across the wooden floor of the small round room in the tower.
Fiction book (1998) -
The butcher recommended a round cut of beef for making pot roast.
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She chose a round of beef to prepare her famous beef stew.
Synonyms
1
3.1
A lean cut of beef from the back leg of a cow
1
5.1
A lean piece of beef from the upper back leg used for roasting or thin slicing
1
5.8
A cut of beef from the rear leg used for pot roast
Idioms
1
7.4
To come together to show strong support for a leader or the country in danger
Compounds
- Literature
7
6.5
A large round table in stories about King Arthur where knights sit as equals
- Literature
4
9.1
A member of King Arthur's court who sits at the Round Table and is brave and fair
- Specialized
1
7.2
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Specialized
1
7.6
A small opening in the inner ear wall that leads to the part that senses sound
- UK
1
2.7
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
- Literature
A round table where King Arthur and his knights sat as equals
- Specialized
A curved half-circle shape above a door or bridge seen in Roman buildings
Couples perform planned steps while moving in a circle to music guided by a leader
A small tree from East Asia that makes round orange fruits with sweet peel and sour flesh
- Specialized
A cord of tissue on each side of the womb that runs to the outer female genital area
- Specialized
A freshwater fish with a bronze back and white belly from northern lakes and rivers
- Specialized
A way of using the arm that swings out at shoulder height to throw or hit in sports like cricket
- Specialized
A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
A garden plant with a round bulb and purple flower head used for food and decoration
- Specialized
A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk
- Specialized
A brown mushroom with a pink stem and smooth round spores that grows on wood
- Specialized
The time it takes for a light signal to travel to a spacecraft or planet and back
A small animal like a rat that lives in Florida wetlands and has a round tail
How Tender
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember round for a cut of beef is to think of the animal's back end or thigh area, the 'round' part of the cow, so the meat from there is called the 'round'.