Word forms of round

Английский глагол round [raʊnd], переводится как: Округлять.
Входит в группы:
правильные глаголы.

3 формы глагола round: Infinitive (round), Past Simple — (rounded), Past Participle — (rounded).

📚 Глагол round имеет значения: повернуть, опоясывать, закруглять,.

👉 Формы глагола round в настоящем и прошедшем времени 2-я и 3-я форма.
❓ Как будет round в прошедшем времени past simple.

Три формы глагола round

Base Form	Past Simple	Past Participle	Перевод
round [raʊnd]	rounded [ˈraʊndɪd]	rounded [ˈraʊndɪd]	Округлять

Как поставить round во 2-ю и 3-ю форму?

🎓 Как поставить глагол round в Past Simple, Future Simple, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect?

👉 Всё очень просто, в этих временах прошедшего, будущего и совершённого времени, в английском используются 2я и 3я форма глагола:

• First form (V1) — round. (Present simple, Future Simple)
• Second form (V2) —
  rounded.

  (Past simple)

• Third form (V3) —
  rounded.

  (Present perfect, Past perfect)

Как поставить round в past simple?

Если вы не совсем поняли какую форму для round нужно использовать в прошедшем времени, будет:
round в past simple — rounded.

What is the past tense of round?

The past tense of round is rounded.

The past participle of round is rounded.

Временные формы глагола — Verb Tenses

Past simple — round в past simple, будет rounded.
(V2)

Future simple — round в future simple будет round. (will + V1)

Present Perfect — round в present perfect будет
rounded.
(havehas + V3)

Past Perfect — round в past perfect будет
rounded.

(had + V3)

Правильный или неправильный глагол round?

👉 Правильный это глагол ли нет? Глагол round это правильный глагол.

Примеры применения глагола round

•  
  He rounded last months — Он округлился в последние месяцы.
  (Past Simple)

•  
  Subtotal 17% overhead (rounded) — Итого 17% накладных расходов (округлено).
  (Past Simple)

•  
  Nevertheless, I rounded my eyes diligently and groaned repeatedly, as if I had heard all this for the first time. — Тем не менее я старательно округляла глаза и то и дело охала, будто услышала обо всём этом впервые.
  (Past Simple)

•  
  How that black bedspread accentuates the whiteness of her skin, how that bandage suits her, how it rounds her cheeks, how it sets off her face! — Как это чёрное покрывало подчёркивает белизну её кожи, как идёт к ней эта повязка, как округляет щёки, как оттеняет лицо!
  (Present Simple)

•  
  They kept rounding their mouths and blinking their sad, dark eyes. — Они то и дело округляли ротики и пучили грустные тёмные глаза.
  (Past Simple)

•  
  The animals rushed to the slope, but for some reason rounded back abruptly and, scattered, disappeared among the rocks. — Животные бросились к откосу, но почему-то круто повернули обратно и, рассыпавшись, исчезли среди скал.
  (Past Simple)
•  
  — It’s not just the current of the river — time itself has rounded backwards…» — the words, not quite mature, clear thought, were poured into some incomprehensible by whom. — – Тут уже не просто течение реки – само время повернуло вспять… – отливались в какую-то, ещё не совсем созревшую, ясную мысль непонятно кем навеянные слова.
  (Present Perfect)

•  
  The girl’s waist was rounded by a broad silver sash, tied at the back in a magnificent bow. — Талию девочки опоясывал широкий серебряный кушак, завязанный сзади в пышный бант.
  (Past Simple)

•  
  This wall, which reached nine meters in height and was more than seven and a half kilometers long, in an uneven ring rounded the old city. — Эта стена, достигавшая девяти метров в высоту и имевшая более семи с половиной километров в длину, неровным кольцом опоясывала старый город.
  (Past Simple)

•  
  After sharpening, the point is slightly rounded so that no grooves or nicks appear on the wooden surface when working with the tool. — После заточки остриё слегка закругляют, чтобы при работе с инструментом на деревянной поверхности не появлялись бороздки и зазубрины.
  (Present Simple)

Examples from texts

Just look,» muttered the individual, peering round for a mirror.

Вы только поглядите, бормотал субъект, ища глазами зеркало.

Bulgakov, Michail / The Heart of a DogБулгаков, Михаил / Собачье сердце

Собачье сердце

Булгаков, Михаил

© Издательство «Художественная литература», 1988

The Heart of a Dog

Bulgakov, Michail

© English translation Raduga Publishers 1990

I shall cease to blush, there will be manliness in my countenance, and, though my moustache is not very large now, it would grow to a good size by that time; » and he felt of the down which was making its appearance round the edges of his mouth.

Я и краснеть перестану, в лице будет мужество, да и усы — небольшие, но порядочные вырастут к тому времени, — и он ущипнул, себя за пушок, показавшийся у краев рта.

Толстой, Л.Н. / Севастопольские рассказыTolstoy, Leo / Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Tolstoy, Leo

© 1888, by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

Севастопольские рассказы

Толстой, Л.Н.

© Издательство «Художественная литература», 1976

The idea comes to him that if she’s found there the hue and cry will center round the house and its occupants and will leave him comfortably out of it.

Он и подумал: если туда подтолкнуть труп, то подозрение падет на обитателей дома.

Christie, Agatha / The Body In The LibraryКристи, Агата / Труп в библиотеке

Труп в библиотеке

Кристи, Агата

© Издательство «Профиздат», 1990

The Body In The Library

Christie, Agatha

© 1941, 1942 by Agatha Christie Mallowan

© renewed 1968, 1970 by Agatha Christie Mallowan

He spun the wheel round in his hands, and turned her down the wind. Then he relinquished the helm to the mate again.

Капитан вывернул штурвал и развернул судно по ветру, после чего вновь передал штурвал помощнику.

Sabatini, Rafael / The Sea-HawkСабатини, Рафаэль / Морской ястреб

Морской ястреб

Сабатини, Рафаэль

© Тихонов Н Н., наследники, 2008

© ООО «Издательский дом «Вече», 2008

The Sea-Hawk

Sabatini, Rafael

For a sufficiently large sphere, the existence of local irregularities should not significantly affect the amount of matter in the sphere, and hence should not affect the existence of a closed trapped surface round us at the present time.

Для достаточно большой сферы существование локальных неоднородностей не должно заметно влиять на количество материи в ней и потому не должно сказываться на существовании замкнутых ловушечных поверхностей вокруг нас в современную эпоху.

Hawking, Stephen,Ellis, G.F.R. / The large scale structure of space-timeХокинг, Стивен,Эллис, Дж. / Крупномасштабная структура пространства-времени

Крупномасштабная структура пространства-времени

Хокинг, Стивен,Эллис, Дж.

© Cambridge University Press, 1973

© Перевод на русский язык, «Мир», 1977

The large scale structure of space-time

Hawking, Stephen,Ellis, G.F.R.

© Cambridge University Press 1973

Then followed a rapid and revolting scene: before Pyotr Stepanovitch could take aim, Fedka swung round and in a flash struck him on the cheek with all his might.

Тут произошла быстрая и отвратительная сцена: прежде чем Петр Степанович мог направить револьвер, Федька мгновенно извернулся и изо всей силы ударил его по щеке.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The possessedДостоевский, Фёдор / Бесы

Бесы

Достоевский, Фёдор

© Издательство «Художественная литература», 1989

The possessed

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

«Here I am, here I am, here I am!» was heard a hurried voice, and round the corner of the hut skipped Bambaev.

— Вот я, вот я, вот я! — послышался торопливый голос, и из-за угла избы выскочил — Бамбаев.

Тургенев, И.С. / ДымTurgenev, I.S. / Smoke

Smoke

Turgenev, I.S.

© 1919, by BONI & LIVERIGHT, Inc.

Дым

Тургенев, И.С.

© Издательство «Правда», 1979

She shrugs. She rolls over and turns her great round rump to Garp.

Она пожала плечами, перевернулась на живот и предоставила Гарпу возможность созерцать ее обширную задницу.

Irving, John / The world According to GarpИрвинг, Джон / Мир глазами Гарпа

Мир глазами Гарпа

Ирвинг, Джон

© 1976, 1977, 1978 by John Irving

© И. Тогоева, перевод на русский язык, 2009

© ООО Издательская группа «Аттикус», 2009

The world According to Garp

Irving, John

© 1976, 1977, 1978 by John Irving

The landlord hovered round for a link, and then prepared to leave them.

Подоспел хозяин, погулял вокруг стола — и с извинениями откланялся.

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel / The Fellowship of the RingТолкиен, Джон Рональд Руэл / Братство Кольца

Братство Кольца

Толкиен, Джон Рональд Руэл

© Издательство «Радуга», 1988

The Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel

© 1954, 1965, 1966 by J.R.R. Tolkien

© renewed 1982 by Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H.R. Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien

© renewed 1993, 1994 by Christopher R.Tolkien, John F.R. Tolkien and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien

© 2003 J. R. R. Tolkien

They approached the abandoned chapel cautiously and walked round it.

Они осторожно приблизились к заброшенной часовне, обошли ее кругом.

Akunin, Boris / The Jack of SpadesАкунин, Борис / Пиковый валет

Пиковый валет

Акунин, Борис

© B. Akunin, автор, 1999

© И. Захаров, издатель, 1999

The Jack of Spades

Akunin, Boris

© 2007 by Random House, Inc.

© 1999 by Boris Akunin

«Well, I pet you trinks und cigars all round dot you cannot tell vot I haf eaten for breakfast.»

— Ладно, готовпобиться об заклад на выпивку и сигары, что вы никак не отгадаете, чем я сегодня завтракал.

O.Henry / The Adventures of Shamrock JolnesГенри, О. / Методы Шемрока Джольнса

Методы Шемрока Джольнса

Генри, О.

The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes

O.Henry

The Company, who had passed the night in a sheltered gully, were already astir, some crowding round the blazing fires and others romping or leaping over each other’s backs for their limbs were chilled and the air biting.

Воины Белого отряда, проведя ночь в защищенном ущелье, чуть свет были уже на ногах, и теперь одни грелись, теснясь у костра, другие бегали или играли в чехарду, разминая окоченевшие от резкого холода руки и ноги.

Conan Doyle, Arthur / White CompanyКонан Дойль, Артур / Белый отряд

Белый отряд

Конан Дойль, Артур

© Издательство «Правда», 1966

White Company

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Another fellow I knew went for a week’s voyage round the coast, and, before they started, the steward came to him to ask whether he would pay for each meal as he had it, or arrange beforehand for the whole series.

Другой мой знакомый отправился в недельную прогулку вдоль побережья. Перед отплытием к нему подошел стюард и спросил, будет ли он расплачиваться за каждый обед отдельно или сразу оплатит стол за все дни.

Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatДжером, Джером Клапка / Трое в лодке не считая собаки

Трое в лодке не считая собаки

Джером, Джером Клапка

© Издательство «ОЛМА-ПРЕСС Образование», 2004

© Донской М.А., Линецкая Э.Л., перевод, 1980

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome, Jerome Klapka

Well, good-bye,’ he said once more in Russian, and grasping his horse by the withers, looked round at those seeing him off and affectionately encountered Marya Dnzitrievna’s eye.

Ну, прощай, — сказал он опять по-русски и, взявшись за холку лошади, обвел глазами всех провожавших его и ласково встретился взглядом с Марьей Дмитриевной.

Tolstoy, Leo / Hadji MuradТолстой, Л.Н. / Хаджи-Мурат

At the appointed time the animals would leave their work and march round the precincts of the farm in military formation, with the pigs leading, then the horses, then the cows, then the sheep, and then the poultry.

В назначенное время животные должны были оставлять работу и, собравшись во дворе, маршировать повзводно — сначала свиньи, затем лошади, а дальше коровы, овцы и домашняя птица.

Orwell, George / Animal FarmОруэлл, Джордж / Скотный двор

Скотный двор

Оруэлл, Джордж

© 1945, Джордж Оруэлл

© 1945, Harcourt, Inc

© 1973, Sonia Orwell

© 1988 Журнал «Родник». Рига

© Илан Полоцк, перевод

Animal Farm

Orwell, George

© 1945, Harcourt, Inc

© 1945, George Orwell

© renewed 1973, Sonia Orwell

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Collocations

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• around
• ron (Bermuda)

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊnd/
• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Compare the doublets rotund and rotunda.

Adjective[edit]

round (comparative rounder or more round, superlative roundest or most round)

1. (physical) Of shape:
   1. Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.

      We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
   2. Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.

      The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.

   3. Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.

      Our child’s bed has round corners for safety.

   4. Plump.

      • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

        If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

2. Complete, whole, not lacking.

   The baker sold us a round dozen.

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 47:

     Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon: / A stranger meeting them had surely thought, / They rode so slowly and they look’d so pale, / That each had suffer’d some exceeding wrong.

3. (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.

   One hundred is a nice round number.

4. (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 421:

     «Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!» (a pure round open Tamil O.)

5. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.

   a round answer; a round oath

   • 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature

     the round assertion

   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 261, column 2:

     Sir Toby, I muſt be round with you.

6. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman

     In his satires Horace is quick, round, and […] pleasant.

7. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
8. Large in magnitude.
   • 1854, Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy‎^[1], page 108:

     By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.

9. (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.

   Antonym: flat

10. (architecture) Vaulted.

Synonyms[edit]

• (circular): circular, cylindrical, discoid
• (spherical): spherical
• (of corners that lack sharp angles): rounded
• (plump): plump, rotund
• (not lacking): complete, entire, whole
• (of a number): rounded
• (pronounced with the lips drawn together): rounded

Derived terms[edit]

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• Acton Round

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

round (plural rounds)

1. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 6:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, page 50:

     All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.

2. A circular or repetitious route.

   hospital rounds

   The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 257:

     Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew’s cap and bells.

3. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

   The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.

4. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
6. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

   They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:

     There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress’s castle.

   • 1978, “Last Summer”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:

     I said I did impersonations would you like to see
     Turned around to buy her one more round

7. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
   • 2009 May 26, Patrick Condon, «Boy with cancer, mom return home», Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman, page A4:

     Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.

8. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
9. (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
10. A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
11. (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
    • 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, Fightville[2], The A.V. Club:

      And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds

12. A stage, level, set of events in a game
    1. (sports) A stage in a competition.

       qualifying rounds of the championship

    2. (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
    3. (video games) A stage or level of a game.

       • 1981, Tom Hirschfeld, How to Master the Video Games, page 88:

         When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.

    4. (card games) The play after each deal.
13. (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
14. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.

    All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.

15. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
16. (dated) A rung, as of a ladder.

    • All the rounds like Jacob’s ladder rise.

    • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Pulpit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 42:

      The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.

17. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
18. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.

    the round of the seasons    a round of pleasures

    • 1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 177:

      On life’s long round by chance I found
      A dell impearled with dew,
      Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground,
      Lent to the earth heaven’s native hue
      Of holy blue.

19. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
    • c. 1732, George Granville, Women

      Women to cards may be compar’d: we play
      A round or two; when us’d, we throw away.

    • 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 437:

      […] the Feaſt was ſerv’d; the Bowl was crown’d;
      To the King’s Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]

20. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.

    Synonym: routine

    • 1827, [John Keble], “Morning”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 4:

      The trivial round, the common task,
      Would furnish all we ought to ask; […]

21. A circular dance.

    • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

      Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
      In a light fantastic round.

22. Rotation, as in office; succession.

    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

      A Cave […] ,
      Where light and darkness in perpetual round
      Lodge and dislodge by turns.

23. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
24. An assembly; a group; a circle.

    a round of politicians

25. A brewer’s vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
26. (archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
27. (nautical) A round-top.
28. A round of beef.

Synonyms[edit]

• (song with each subset starting at a different time): canon
• (hindquarters of a bovine): rump

Antonyms[edit]

• (rounded inside edge): fillet

Hyponyms[edit]

• (song with each subset starting at a different time): catch

Derived terms[edit]

• round of applause

Translations[edit]

Preposition[edit]

round

1. (rare in US) Alternative form of around

   I look round the room quickly to make sure it’s neat.

   • 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error

     The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

Derived terms[edit]

• go round
• look round

Translations[edit]

Postposition[edit]

round

1. (rare in US) Alternative form of around

   The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round.

Adverb[edit]

round (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of around

Derived terms[edit]

• turnround (from turn round)
• wrapround, wrap-round (from the verb wrap round)

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

round (third-person singular simple present rounds, present participle rounding, simple past and past participle rounded)

1. (transitive) To shape something into a curve.

   The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.

   • The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.

2. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
3. (with «out») To finish; to complete; to fill out.

   She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     We are such stuff
     As dreams are made on, and our little life
     Is rounded with a sleep.

4. (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.

   Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.

5. (transitive) To turn past a boundary.

   Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.

6. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).

   As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

7. (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.

   And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.

8. (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.

   • 2011 March 2, Andy Campbell, “Celtic 1 — 0 Rangers”, in BBC‎^[3]:

     Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.

9. To encircle; to encompass.

   Synonym: surround

   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     The inclusive verge
     Of golden metal that must round my brow.

10. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

      The queen your mother rounds apace.

    • So rounds he to a separate mind,
      From whence clear memory may begin.

11. (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
12. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
13. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

Derived terms[edit]

• round off
• round out
• round up
• round down

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• ’round

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English rounen, from Old English rūnian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide”), *raunijaną (“to investigate, examine, prove”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately”), Middle Low German rūnen (“to whisper”), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper”), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur”), Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience”). More at rune.

Verb[edit]

round (third-person singular simple present rounds, present participle rounding, simple past and past participle rounded)

1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
2. (transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     rounded in the ear

   • c. 1617, David Calderwood (quoted as saying to King James VI)

     The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, «Ye are not a wise man,» […] he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, «Wherefore brought ye me here?»

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member IV:

     Tiberius the emperor […] perceiving a fellow round a dead corse in the ear, would needs know wherefore he did so […]

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English roun, from Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnō, *raunō (“a whisper, secret, secret sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun, round (“a whisper, secret story”), German raunen (“to whisper, say secretly”), Swedish rön (“findings, observations, experience”).

Noun[edit]

round (plural rounds)

1. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
2. (archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

Anagrams[edit]

• Duron

Chinese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English round.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (younger speakers of Hong Kong Cantonese) IPA^(key): /ɹaːu̯n⁵⁵/, /ɹaːu̯ŋ⁵⁵/

Noun[edit]

round

1. (Cantonese) walk; stroll (a returning one) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

   打round [Cantonese]  ―  daa² laang¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to take a walk around

2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) round (serving of something) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

   呢個round，我嘅！／呢个round，我嘅！ [Cantonese]  ―  ni¹ go³ waang¹, ngo⁵ ge³! [Jyutping]  ―  I’ll be paying for drinks in this round!

3. (Hong Kong Cantonese) round; turn (Classifier: 個／个 c)

Classifier[edit]

round

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for events that occurs in rounds or turns.

See also[edit]

• 搞round

References[edit]

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English round.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.und/

Noun[edit]

round m (plural rounds)

1. (sports, chiefly boxing) round

   Synonym: tour

   • 2015, “Bonjour”, performed by Emicida ft. Féfé:

     Trop de parents qu’ont pas un rond
     Trop de casaniers qui tiendront pas un round de plus

     Too many parents who don’t have a cent
     Too many homebodies who won’t last another round

Further reading[edit]

• “round”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English round.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈrawnd/
• Rhymes: -awnd

Noun[edit]

round m (invariable)

1. (sports) round
2. round (session or series)

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English round.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈraw̃d͡ʒ/

Noun[edit]

round m (plural rounds)

1. (martial arts) round (segment of a fight)

   Synonym: assalto

2. (figurative) a stage of a dispute, confrontation or other difficult endeavour

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English round.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈraund/ [ˈrãũn̪d̪]
• Rhymes: -aund

Noun[edit]

round m (plural rounds)

1. (martial arts) round

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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