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
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Watch on YouTubeThey'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 make something round like a ball
Make something smooth by removing sharp edges
To make a sharp edge or corner smooth and curved
To become rounder and fuller, usually by gaining weight
To change an object so it becomes round
To make something round like a ball
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
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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
- Literature
A round table where King Arthur and his knights sat as equals
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A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
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A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
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A curved half-circle shape above a door or bridge seen in Roman buildings
- UK
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
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 small opening in the inner ear wall that leads to the part that senses sound
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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
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.