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all round(dictionary)
Second round(finance)
Round lot(finance)
Down round(finance)
Second round(money)
Round Lot(money)
Down round(money)
round(2)(dictionary)
round(1)(dictionary)

apert (iou) and round(1) (iou)


apert (iou)



apert adjective & adverb. Long arch. ME.
[Old French from Latin apertus pa. pple of aperire to open: cf. PERT adjective.]
A. adjective.
Open, public; overt. ME.
Evident, plain. ME-L17.
Straightforward; brisk, bold. Only in ME.
Outspoken; insolent. ME-L17.
Clever, ready, expert. ME-L16.
B. adverb. Openly, publicly; plainly. ME-L17.
apertion noun an opening; the action of opening: L16-M18.
apertive adjective = APERITIVE adjective, APERIENT adjective M16-E18.
apertly adverb openly, evidently; boldly: ME.
apertness noun (now rare or obsolete) openness, frankness E17.

round(1) (iou)



round adjective. ME.
[Old French ro(u)nd- inflectional stem of ro(o)nt, earlier reont (mod. rond), from Proto-Romance var. of Latin rotundus ROTUND adjective.]
I.
Having all parts of the surface equidistant from the centre; spherical, like a ball. ME.
D. H. Lawrence A great round globe of iron. J. Steinbeck Her head was small and round.
Cylindrical; having a convex surface or outline, curved. ME.
a round peg in a square hole, a square peg in a round hole: see PEG noun1.
J. Conrad The..jetty with the squat round tower. Day Lewis He is wearing his round, shallow clerical hat.
b. Of a garment: enveloping the body completely, not open at the front; cut circularly at the bottom, so as to have no train; full. LME.
c. Of cloth: made of thick thread. Scot. L15-L16.
d. Of the shoulders: bent forward from the line of the back. E18.
e. Of a fish: not gutted. L19.
Having all parts of the circumference equidistant from the centre; circular. ME.
R. West The loch..was a dark shining circle, perfectly round. B. Emecheta The..woman had a face as round as a perfect O.
b. Going round in or tracing out a circle. M16.
c. Phonetics. Of a sound, esp. a vowel: enunciated by contracting the lips to form a circular shape. L16.
d. Of a blow: delivered with a swing of the arm. E19.
Plump, free from angularity; well-fleshed. ME.
Tennyson An armlet for the roundest arm on earth.
II.
Of a number: full, complete, entire (freq. in round dozen); esp. expressed for convenience or as an estimate in few significant numerals (as in tens, hundreds, etc.) or with a fraction removed. ME.
H. Adams The..line..measures in round numbers one hundred feet. C. N. Parkinson He distrusts that round figure of 10,000,000.
b. Of a calculation etc.: approximate, rough. rare. M17.
a. Brought to a perfect finish; perfect; neatly turned or finished off. Formerly also, (of work) carried out to a proper finish. LME.
P. J. Bailey Ere yet he could..foresee Life's round career accomplished in the skies.
b. Of a voice, sound, etc.: full and mellow; not harsh. M16.
c. Of a Wine or spirit: having a good balance between taste, smell, and alcoholic strength. L20.
Of a sum of money or (long only Scot.) an amount: large, considerable. L16.
III. (Of a blow, measure, etc.) heavy, hard, severe; (of fighting) vigorous. LME-M18.
J. Arbuthnot A good round Whipping.
Outspoken, uncompromising, or severe in speech with; (of a statement etc.) categorical, blunt. LME.
Dickens The lady..rated him in good round terms. A. Trollope Must he not be round with her,..give her to understand in plain words?
b. Plain, honest, straightforward. arch. E16.
Of movement: quick, brisk, smart. Chiefly in a round pace, a good round pace. M16.
b. Of speech: flowing. M16-M18.
Special collocations & comb.: round-arch, round-arched adjectives (Architecture) characterized by or having rounded or semi-circular arches. roundball US (a) Baseball; (b) Basketball. round barrow Archaeology a circular grave-mound common in (but not confined to) the Bronze Age of Europe. round bilge Nautical a curved, as opp. to an angular or stepped, hull. round bracket: of the form ( ). round-celled adjective (Medicine) (of a sarcoma) characterized by round, undifferentiated cells. round clam: see CLAM noun2 1. round coal: in large lumps. round Dance (a) a ring Dance; (b) a Dance in which couples revolve around the floor. round-eared adjective (of a cap) having round flaps at the ears. roundeye slang, derog. a European, as opp. to an Oriental. round-faced adjective having a round face. round fish (a) fish of a rounded form (opp. flatfish). round-fish = pilot-fish s.v. PILOT noun 3. round game a game (esp. at cards) for three or more players in which each player plays as an individual as opp. to as part of a team. round hand a style of handwriting in which the letters are round and bold. round heel (chiefly US slang) [with ref. to worn heels allowing the wearer to fall backwards easily] (a) in pl. a tendency to be promiscuous; (b) sing. & in pl. a promiscuous person, esp. a woman. round-heeled adjective (chiefly US slang) sexually promiscuous. round HERRING. round log US: felled but not hewn. round lot US a standard unit of trading in a particular Security. round meal coarse oatmeal. round-mouthed adjective (chiefly Zoology) having a round mouth; round-mouthed snail, a terrestrial prosobranch snail, Pomatias elegans, characteristic of chalk downland. round-nosed adjective (of a tool) having the end formed so as to produce a rounded cut or surface. round-off noun & adjective (a) noun an act of rounding off a number; (b) adjective (of a file) used to round or blunt a point. round pin on an electrical plug, a pin with a circular rather than a rectangular cross-section. round rape: see RAPE noun3 1. round robin (a) a petition, esp. one with the signatures written in a circle to conceal the order of Writing; (b) N. Amer. a tournament in which each competitor competes once with each of the others; (c) Horse-racing a form of multiple bet involving three horses, adding up to ten bets; (d) a sequence, a series. round seam Nautical: joining two edges without lapping. round seizing Nautical: used to lash two ropes together with a series of turns. round shot Hist. cast-iron or steel spherical balls for firing from cannon. round-shouldered adjective having the shoulders bent forward so that the back is rounded. round text large round-hand. round timber US: felled but not hewn. round-top noun & adjective (a) noun (Nautical) a (formerly circular) platform around a masthead of a sailing ship; (b) adjective having a rounded top. round towel (now rare) a roller towel. round tower Archaeology a high tower of circular plan tapering from the base to a conical roofed top, found esp. in Ireland. round trip a trip to one or more places and back again, esp. by a circular route; (round-trip ticket (N. Amer.), a return ticket). round-tripper (a) a traveller who makes a round trip; (b) Baseball a Home run. round-tripping Economics the practice of earning profit by borrowing on overdraft and relending in money markets. round turn (a) Nautical a complete turn of a rope around another rope, a bollard, etc.; (b) bring up with a round turn (colloq.), check or stop suddenly. round-winged adjective having round wings; round-winged muslin, a small whitish European moth, Thumatha senex, of the family Arctiidae; round-winged hawk (chiefly Falconry), any of various birds of prey of the family Acciptridae, esp. a hawk of the genus Accipiter. round wood short logs of small diameter from the tops of pine and spruce trees, used for furniture.
roundish adjective M16.
roundward adjective (rare) circular L19.
roundways adverb (rare) = roundwise M17.
roundwise adverb & adjective (now rare) (a) adverb in a circular form or arrangement; (b) adjective circular: L16.
roundy adjective (now dial.) (a) rounded, of a round shape; (b) (of coal) lumpy: L16.