1. adjective /ˈɹaʊnd/
We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
2. noun /ˈɹaʊnd/
a) A circular object.
All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
b) A circular or repetitious route; hospital rounds.
The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon.
3. preposition /ˈɹaʊnd/
Alternative form of around.
I look round the room quick to make sure its neat looking.
4. adverb /ˈɹaʊnd/
Alternative form of around.
5. verb /ˈɹaʊnd/
a) To shape something into a curve.
The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
b) To become shaped into a curve.
The girls figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
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