to round
- verb
- /raʊnd/
- The dog ran round the park chasing a ball.
- round the corner
- round a bend
And we round the corner and it was like crickets.
- And we round the corner and it was like crickets.
Examples
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So as you kind of round the Birch tree and there it is.
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This road is a track, race track going round and round like this.
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And then coming round to the side here.
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So I have to go this way round, force it through.
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Or, or you can go round to his house.
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I'm going to have to come round and move the camera angle again.
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I'm going to go just round the top and the arch.
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With strenuous effort, we round yet another turn, but still no bridge.
Academic text (1993) -
A few paces later, he rounded the corner and caught sight of the festival house.
Fiction book (1992) -
And now I'm in South Africa in a safari car going round to see lions.
Synonyms
Move something so it faces a different direction or side
To move around something in a circle
To move in a curved path around a planet or star
Move in a circle around a point, like a planet around the Sun
To go on foot around the edge of something instead of through it
To turn quickly to face a different direction
To bend into a smooth, rounded shape
Move in a round path around someone or something
Move in a circle around a central object, like planets around the Sun
To move in a complete vertical circle, as a plane or roller coaster
Travel by boat around a place like a coast or lake
To move in a smooth curved path, like lightning across the sky
Move around something or someone in a circle
Move around another object in a curved path
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
- Specialized
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
- 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 Curved
Surface Forms
Etymology
Round as a verb meaning to go around a curve comes from the basic sense of moving in a circle, so to round a corner is to move past it on a curved path.