See Also: top round(dictionary)
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)

round(6) (iou)



round verb2. LME.
[from the adjective; in early use perh. after Old French rondir.]
I. verb trans.
Make round; give a circular, spherical, or curved form to. LME.
E. Diehl Rounding the backs of books..to produce a smooth..surface. A. Tyler She carried her books clutched to her chest, rounding her shoulders.
b. Make convex or curving in outline; form into a cylinder; fill out to a rounded form. L17.
W. M. Praed Slender arms..Are rounded with a statue's grace.
c. Enunciate (a sound) with rounded lips. M19.
a. Deface (coin) by cutting or paring. LME-E17.
b. Cut (the hair) short round the head; cut the hair of (a person) in this way. Also, tonsure. LME-L18.
c. Crop (the ears of a dog). L18.
Surround or encircle (with). arch. E16.
b. Hem in. rare. E17.
a. Make a complete circuit of, travel round. L16.
J. M. Coetzee The marshland begins to curve back..and we know that we have rounded the lake.
b. Walk around, take a turn round. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
c. Cause to turn to an opposite position or move in a circle. E18.
d. Pass round so as to get to the opposite side of. M18.
J. McPhee A boat rounds a bend from the west. D. Attenborough The Beagle..rounded Cape Horn and came north again.
e. Collect or bring together (members of a group or esp. a herd of cattle), esp. by going round. Usu. foll. by up. M19.
J. A. Michener Men..would..round up cattle. S. Townsend They took hours to round up all the pensioners.
Finish off, bring to completion, esp. satisfactorily or appropriately. Freq. foll. by off, out. E17.
M. Angelou I like a serious man..to laugh. Rounds out the personality. V. Brome Jones's letter..appeared to round off..the interminable story.
b. Bring (a sentence etc.) to a neat close; end (a sentence etc.) with something. M18.
c. Express (a number) in few significant figures for convenience. Freq. foll. by off. E20.
II. verb intrans.
Have or assume a curved or full shape; become round, circular, or spherical. LME.
Chambers's Journal The little..apples grew and rounded and yellowed.
a. Walk about; spec. (of a guard) go the rounds. Now rare. M16.
b. Take a circular or winding course; make a turn; turn round. E17.
c. Curve off. L17.
With adverbs & prepositions in specialized senses: round down (a) decrease (a number) when rounding it; (b) Nautical overhaul (a rope). round in Nautical haul in. round off (a) make round, convex, or curved by trimming off edges or angles; (b) complete (an estate etc.) by adding adjacent lands; (see also senses 5, 5c above). round on (a) make a sudden verbal attack on or unexpected retort to (a person); (b) slang inform on. round out (a) verb phr. intrans. (Aeronautics) flare; (b) verb phr. trans. see sense 5 above. round to Nautical sail closer to the wind. round up (a) increase (a number) when rounding it; (b) Nautical sail closer to the wind; (c) Nautical take up the slack of (a rope running through a block); (see also sense 4e above).
Comb.: round-out Aeronautics = FLARE noun1 3b.