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the usual activities in your day; "the doctor made his rounds" having a circular shape ball-shaped, bulblike, capitate, coccoid, cumuliform, discoid, moonlike, nutlike, pear-shaped, ringlike, roundish, orbiculate (of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand; "in round numbers" inexact wind around; move along a circular course; "round the bend" pronounce with rounded lips make round; "round the edges" become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out" from beginning to end; throughout; "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather the year around" the course along which communications spread; "the story is going the rounds in Washington" a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic); "he ordered a second round" a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time; "they enjoyed singing rounds" an outburst of applause; "there was a round of applause" (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order); "the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning"; "the postman''s rounds"; "we enjoyed our round of the local bars" a charge of ammunition for a single shot a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" the activity of playing 18 holes of golf; "a round of golf takes about 4 hours" any circular or rotating mechanism; "the machine punched out metal circles" attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners" a crosspiece between the legs of a chair (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" full (sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; "the neverending cycle of the seasons" express as a round number; "round off the amount" be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village" |
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