<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.</li><li>Antonyms: angular</li><li>ring-shaped, as a hoop.</li><li>curved like part of a circle, as an outline.</li><li>having a circular cross section, as a cylinder; cylindrical.</li><li>spherical or globular, as a ball.</li><li>shaped more or less like a part of a sphere; hemispherical.</li><li>free from angularity; consisting of full, curved lines or shapes, as handwriting or parts of the body.</li><li>executed with or involving circular motion.</li><li>full, complete, or entire: a round dozen.</li><li>Synonyms: unbroken, whole</li><li>noting, formed, or expressed by an integer or whole number with no fraction.</li><li>expressed, given, or exact to the nearest multiple or power of ten; in tens, hundreds, thousands, or the like: in round numbers.</li><li>roughly correct; approximate: a round guess.</li><li>considerable in amount; ample: a round sum of money.</li><li>brought to completeness or perfection.</li><li>full and sonorous, as sound.</li><li>vigorous or brisk: a round trot.</li><li>straightforward, plain, or candid; outspoken: a round scolding.</li><li>positive or unqualified: a round assertion.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.</li><li>a circular, ring-shaped, curved, or spherical object; a rounded form.</li><li>Synonyms: cylinder</li><li>something circular in cross section, as a rung of a ladder or chair.</li><li>a completed course of time, series of events or operations, etc., ending at a point corresponding to that at the beginning: We waited through the round of many years.</li><li>Synonyms: period, revolution, cycle</li><li>any complete course, series, or succession: The strike was settled after a long round of talks; a round of parties.</li><li>Often rounds.</li><li>a going around from place to place, as in a habitual or definite circuit: a doctor's rounds.</li><li>a completed course or spell of activity, commonly one of a series, in some play or sport: the second round of a tournament.</li><li>a recurring period of time, succession of events, duties, etc.: the daily round.</li><li>an entire range: the round of human capabilities.</li><li>a single outburst, as of applause or cheers.</li><li>a single discharge of shot by each of a number of guns, rifles, etc.</li><li>a single discharge by one firearm.</li><li>a charge of ammunition for a single shot.</li><li>a single serving, especially of drink, made more or less simultaneously to everyone present, as at table or at a bar: The next round is on me.</li><li>round dance.</li><li>movement in a circle or around an axis.</li><li>Cooking. Also round of beef.</li><li>the portion of the thigh of beef below the rump and above the leg.</li><li>Informal. round steak.</li><li>a slice, as of bread.</li><li>Archery. a specified number of arrows shot from a specified distance from the target in accordance with the rules.</li><li>one of a series of three-minute periods making up a boxing match: a 15-round bout.</li><li>Music. a short, rhythmical canon at the unison, in which the several voices enter at equally spaced intervals of time.</li><li>rounds, the order followed in ringing a peal of bells in diatonic sequence from the highest to the lowest.</li><li>Golf. a playing of the complete course.</li><li>Cards. a division of play in a game, consisting of a turn each for every player to bid, bet, play a card, deal the cards, or be dealt cards.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>throughout or from the beginning to the end of a recurring period of time: all year round.</li><li>Also 'round.</li><li>around: The music goes round and round.</li></ul><p><strong>Preposition</strong></p><ul><li>throughout (a period of time): a resort visited all round the year.</li><li>around: It happened round noon.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to make round.</li><li>to free from angularity; fill out symmetrically; make plump.</li><li>to bring to completeness or perfection; finish.</li><li>Jewelry. to form (a gem) roughly (sometimes followed by up); girdle.</li><li>to end (a sentence, paragraph, etc.) with something specified: He rounded his speech with a particularly apt quotation.</li><li>to encircle or surround.</li><li>to make a complete circuit of; pass completely around.</li><li>to make a turn or partial circuit around or to the other side of: to round a corner.</li><li>to cause to move in a circle; turn around.</li><li>Phonetics. to make the opening at (the lips) relatively round or pursed during an utterance.</li><li>to pronounce (a speech sound, especially a vowel) with rounded lips; labialize.</li><li>to contract (the lips) laterally.</li><li>Compare spread (def 14b), unround.</li><li>Mathematics. to replace by the nearest multiple of 10, with 5 being increased to the next highest multiple: 15,837 can be rounded to 15,840; then to 15,800; then to 16,000.</li><li>Verb (used without object) to become round.</li><li>to become free from angularity; become plump.</li><li>to develop to completeness or perfection.</li><li>to take a circular course; make a circuit, as a guard.</li><li>to make a turn or partial circuit around something.</li><li>to turn around as on an axis: to round on one's heels.</li><li>to reduce successively the number of digits to the right of the decimal point of a mixed number by dropping the final digit and adding 1 to the next preceding digit if the dropped digit was 5 or greater, or leaving the preceding digit unchanged if the dropped digit was 4 or less.</li><li>Verb phrase Nautical. to turn a sailing vessel in the direction from which the wind is blowing.</li><li>to complete or perfect: The new coin rounded out his collection.</li><li>to fill out; become rounder: She rounded out so nicely that everyone soon forgot she had been so ill.</li><li>to drive or bring (cattle, sheep, etc.) together.</li><li>to assemble; gather: to round up all the suspects in an investigation.</li><li>to complete or perfect; finish.</li><li>to express as a round number, usually to the nearest multiple of 10.</li></ul>