rounds

Meaning of rounds

noun
  1. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
  2. A circular or repetitious route.
    The guards have started their rounds; the prisoner should be caught soon.
  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.
  5. 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.
  6. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
  7. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
  8. A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. A stage, level, set of events in a game
  12. (drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
  13. 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.
  14. (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
  15. A rung, as of a ladder.
  16. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  17. 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
  18. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
  19. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  20. A circular dance.
  21. Rotation, as in office; succession.
  22. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  23. An assembly; a group; a circle.
    a round of politicians
  24. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  25. A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  26. A round-top.
  27. A round of beef.
verb
  1. To shape something into a curve.
    The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
  2. 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.
  4. To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
    Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
  5. To turn past a boundary.
    Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
  6. 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. To advance to home plate.
    And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
  8. To go round, pass, go past.
  9. To encircle; to encompass.
  10. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  11. To do ward rounds.
  12. To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
  13. To go or turn round; to wheel about.
verb
  1. To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
  2. To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
noun
  1. A whisper; whispering.
  2. Discourse; song.
noun
  1. The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.
  2. A route taken by someone in authority.
    the hourly rounds of the night watchman.
  3. (campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.

Information about rounds

  • The singular form of rounds is: round.
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Hyphenation of rounds

rounds

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • rounds is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

rounds synonyms

Meaning :

rump, canon, surround

rounds antonyms

Meaning :

fillet

Anagrams of rounds

Sudnor

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