to round
- verb
- /raʊnd/
- Everything was carved from the rock, smooth and rounded with the passage of many feet.
- round the corners
- become rounded
- rounded edges
They're walking around, slouching, rounding their shoulders, keeping their heads down.
- They're walking around, slouching, rounding their shoulders, keeping their heads down.
- So again, take the piece, take your comb and then round it at the bottom.
Examples
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So we didn't actually close it and we rounded the edges.
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So again, take the piece, take your comb and then round it at the bottom.
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Just going to round it off a little bit.
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I wonder if I was to hold this here and help it round, would it free it?
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So once you reach that outer corner here, you just want to round it out.
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So now I have to round my face and I don't know how to do that.
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I'm going to blend that round the edges with the foundation.
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I'm just drawing that into my socket and sculpting round the eye with it.
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Their heads seemed to grow right from their shoulders, with rounded ears, flat noses, and bristling whiskers.
Fiction book (1992) -
This technique will help you round the edges of your project for a smoother finish.
Synonyms
To shape something into a long round form by turning it
To become or make something fuller by adding more
To become rounder and fuller, usually by gaining weight
Make something smooth by removing sharp edges
To make a sharp edge or corner smooth and curved
To make something round like a ball
To make something round like a ball
To change an object so it becomes round
Antonyms
Idioms
To come together to show strong support for a leader or the country in danger
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To reduce a number to the nearest whole number that is not more than it
- Specialized
To turn the front of a boat away from the wind so it blows from the other side
Compounds
- Literature
A large round table in stories about King Arthur where knights sit as equals
- Literature
A member of King Arthur's court who sits at the Round Table and is brave and fair
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A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Specialized
A small opening in the inner ear wall that leads to the part that senses sound
- UK
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
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A cord of tissue on each side of the womb that runs to the outer female genital area
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A freshwater fish with a bronze back and white belly from northern lakes and rivers
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A way of using the arm that swings out at shoulder height to throw or hit in sports like cricket
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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
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A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk
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A brown mushroom with a pink stem and smooth round spores that grows on wood
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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 Rounded
Surface Forms
Etymology
Round as a verb meaning to make something circular comes from the idea of making it into a 'round' shape, so to round the corners is to make them curved.