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round

round

863 3.1
A set of visits to check people or places
  • noun
  • /raʊnd/
: ronda
  • The last round of interviews for the job will take place next week.
  • first round
  • final round
  • second round

We have got the next round, which is gods.

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Examples

  • And the person eliminated this round is Matt.

  • Another round over here, dear.

  • I think the second round was the best round.

  • How long does that one round of the procedure take in total?

  • Here we go for round three with Brian Johnson.

  • And we will be back next week with another round of trivia and news.

  • The winner of this round was Josh Zucker.

  • Our wonderful flight attendants are doing one last round of refreshments, and make sure you enjoy the tail end of this flight.

  • Democrats and Republicans agreed on a round of temporary tax cuts and extended jobless benefits in December 2010.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In that time, she had already made her rounds, conferring with the foreman in each department.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

turn
vsround
749 1.0

A chance in a sequence to act or speak

is a stage covering a set of activities involving several participants

Idioms

a round of
  • Informal
14 3.5

A set of drinks bought for everyone, with people taking turns to pay

10 5.2

To keep doing the same thing without making progress

5 8.2

A person who behaves very strangely or does not think clearly

To become so angry or stressed that you cannot think clearly

To come together to show strong support for a leader or the country in danger

in the round
  • Jargon
1 4.7

People sit in a circle so everyone can see and take part

A person who does not fit into a job or group

9.9

To finally do something you have been putting off for a long time

Happens all day and night without stopping

Compounds

154 2.5

The first set of matches in a competition where all players or teams play

78 3.0

Happening or available all year

A short time when many people clap to show approval

48 1.6

A journey to a place and back to where you started

Happening all day and all night without stopping

Round Table
  • Literature
13 6.5

A large round table in stories about King Arthur where knights sit as equals

merry-go-round
  • Texting
11 4.1

A repeating cycle of events that seems pointless and has no end

11 3.3

A discussion where people who are equal share ideas about a topic

11 2.3

An occasion of playing all holes on a golf course, usually 18 holes

A round ride with seats shaped like animals that turns for people to sit on

10 2.1

A ticket that lets you travel to a place and back

A set of drinks bought for everyone in a group at the same time

6 9.1

A member of King Arthur's court who sits at the Round Table and is brave and fair

4 1.0

A curved form with no sharp corners like a circle

3 4.0

A competition where each team or player plays every other

1 7.0

A round table where King Arthur and his knights sat as equals

1 4.1

Having a rounded end often found on tools like scissors

A thing with a curved bottom that rolls and is hard to stand

round shot
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A solid metal ball used in cannons in the past

1 3.2

Usual tasks a person does every day

1 5.6

Having a curved bottom rather than a flat one

theater in the round
  • Specialized
1 5.4

A theater where the audience sits around a central stage

1 6.8

A bone that is roughly round in shape, often from animals

quarter round
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap

1 3.1

A lean cut of beef from the back leg of a cow

round-bottom flask
  • Specialized
1 4.9

A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals

1 5.1

A lean piece of beef from the upper back leg used for roasting or thin slicing

round-nose
  • Specialized
1 4.9

Pliers with smooth rounded jaws used to bend wire and make loops

round file
  • Informal
1 7.8

A joking name for a trash can where unwanted papers go

1 5.5

A letter signed by many people to show a shared opinion

round trip
  • Specialized
1 3.9

The time it takes for data to go and come back over a network

A meeting where people at the same level discuss a subject together

round robin
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A way of giving tasks to computers one after another

1 3.3

People move together in a circle following set steps, often with partners

round hand
  • Archaic
1 9.5

A clear style of writing with large round letters

round file
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A metal tool with a round shape to smooth or widen holes

round arch
  • Specialized
1 4.1

A curved half-circle shape above a door or bridge seen in Roman buildings

1 5.8

A cut of beef from the rear leg used for pot roast

A team that watches a place all day and night to keep it safe

1 2.7

A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school

merry-go-round
  • Texting
3.8

A set of images on a website that change automatically or when you click

round angle
  • Specialized
4.6

A full circle that measures 360 degrees

5.7

A large clam you can eat with a hard rounded shell

5.4

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

A cord of tissue on each side of the womb that runs to the outer female genital area

9.3

A small long thin fish that lives near coasts in the western Atlantic

8.1

A large tent that holds people for a circus show

round window
  • Specialized
7.6

A small opening in the inner ear wall that leads to the part that senses sound

round whitefish
  • Specialized
9.3

A freshwater fish with a bronze back and white belly from northern lakes and rivers

round-arm
  • Specialized
7.3

A way of using the arm that swings out at shoulder height to throw or hit in sports like cricket

round-fruited
  • Specialized
4.3

A plant or tree that grows round fruit like berries

A garden plant with a round bulb and purple flower head used for food and decoration

9.9

A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk

round-nose
  • Specialized
6.0

A bullet with a rounded tip that is less likely to go through things

9.9

A brown mushroom with a pink stem and smooth round spores that grows on wood

round-trip light time
  • Specialized
9.6

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

8.2

A quick collection of money from a group for a gift or charity

Surface Forms

round singular
rounds plural

Etymology

Round for a set of visits comes from the idea of going in a circle or making a trip to each place in turn; a nurse's 'round' is one complete trip to see every patient, so the word means one whole circuit.