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round

English

Alternative forms

ron (Bermuda)

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??a?nd/
Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French röunt, röunde, rund, Old French ront, runt, rëont, rëonde ( > French rond), representing an earlier *rodond, from Latin rotundus or a Vulgar Latin form retundus (compare Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo, etc.) The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Compare the doublet rotund and rotunda.

Adjective

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

(physical) Of shape:
1. Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
2. Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
3. Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
4. Plump.
Complete, whole, not lacking.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid
  Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.
(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
(phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
  the round assertion
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.
Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
  Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
Large in magnitude.
(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
Antonym: flat
(architecture) Vaulted.

Synonyms

(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

Related terms

Acton Round

Translations

Noun

round (plural rounds)

A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- 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.
A circular or repetitious route.
A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
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.
One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
(art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
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.
(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
A stage, level, set of events in a game
1. (sports) A stage in a competition.
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.
4. (card games) The play after each deal.
(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.
A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
(butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
(dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
- All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
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.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
  The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round.
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
Synonym: routine
A circular dance.
Rotation, as in office; succession.
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A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
An assembly; a group; a circle.
A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
(archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
(nautical) A round-top.
A round of beef.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

(rounded inside edge): fillet

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

round of applause
round of ammunition

Translations

Preposition

round

(rare in US) Alternative form of around
- 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
  The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

Derived terms

go round
look round

Translations

Adverb

round (not comparable)

Alternative form of around

Derived terms

turnround (from turn round)

Translations

Verb

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

(transitive) To shape something into a curve.
The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
- The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
(intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
  The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
(with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
(intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
(transitive) To turn past a boundary.
Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
(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.
(transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
(transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
To encircle; to encompass.
Synonym: surround
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.
(medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
(obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
(obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

Derived terms

round off
round out
round up
round down

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rounen, from Old English r?nian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly”), from Proto-Germanic *r?n?n? (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide”), *raunijan? (“to investigate, examine, prove”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rew?-, *(e)rw?- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately”), Middle Low German r?nen (“to whisper”), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper”), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur”), Old English r?n (“whisper, secret, mystery”), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience”). More at rune.

Verb

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

(intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
(transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
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- 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?"
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.IV:
  Tiberius the emperor […] perceiving a fellow round a dead corse in the ear, would needs know wherefore he did so […]

Etymology 3

From Middle English roun, from Old English r?n (“whisper, secret, mystery”), from Proto-Germanic *r?n?, *raun? (“a whisper, secret, secret sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rew?-, *(e)rw?- (“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

round (plural rounds)

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

Anagrams

Duron

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English round.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?und/

Noun

round m (plural rounds)

(sports, chiefly boxing) round
Synonym: tour

Italian

Etymology

From English round.

Noun

round m (invariable)

(sports) round
round (session or series)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English round.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /?raw?d??/

Noun

round m (plural rounds)

(martial arts) round (segment of a fight)
Synonym: assalto
(figuratively) a stage of a dispute, confrontation or other difficult endeavour

Spanish

Etymology

From English round.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?raund/, [?rã?n?d?]

Noun

round m (plural rounds)

(martial arts) round

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full

English

Pronunciation

enPR: fo?ol, IPA^(key): /f?l/, [f??]
Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English full, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”).

Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare pl?nus), Welsh llawn, Russian ??????? (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian ? (por), Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a). See also fele.

Adjective

full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)

Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Total, entire.
(informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
(informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
(of physical features) Plump, round.
Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
Having depth and body; rich.
a full singing voice
(obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies
  Reading maketh a full man.
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
She's full of her latest project.
- Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
Filled with emotions.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
  The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
(obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
- Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
(poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).
I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.
(chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
  Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?

Synonyms

(containing the maximum possible amount): abounding, brimful, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full, full up, full to bursting, full to overflowing, jam full, jammed, jam-packed, laden, loaded, overflowing, packed, rammed, stuffed
(complete): complete, thorough
(total): entire, total
(satisfied, in relation to eating): glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
(of a garment): baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
(drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

(containing the maximum possible amount): empty
(complete): incomplete
(total): partial
(satisfied, in relation to eating): empty, hungry, starving
(of a garment): close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

? Gulf Arabic: ???? (ful)

Translations

Sundanese: wareg

Adverb

full (not comparable)

(archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:
  Prospero:
  I have done nothing but in care of thee,
  Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
  Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing
  Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
  Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
  And thy no greater father.
- […] full in the centre of the sacred wood
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112
  You know full well what makes me look so pale.
- 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12
  This cupboard […] / this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX
  It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]
- 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, […].

Derived terms

full-grown
full well

Etymology 2

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *full??, *fuln? (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?no-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh?-, *pleh?- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.

Noun

full (plural fulls)

Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.
I was fed to the full.
- 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:
  […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
(of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
- a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
  It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]
- a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
  This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
(freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

Derived terms

(freestyle skiing):

Translations

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

(of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
- 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
  The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
- 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:
  "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
- 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:
  "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

Etymology 3

From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaw?h?n? (“to fully consecrate”), from *fulla- (“full-”) + *w?h?n? (“to hallow, consecrate, make holy”). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

(transitive) To baptise.

Derived terms

fulling

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fuller, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

Synonyms

to walk, waulk

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Compare French feuille, Spanish hoja, Italian foglio, Italian foglia (the latter from Latin folia, plural of folium). Doublet of the borrowing foli.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fu?/
Rhymes: -u?

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

sheet of paper

Related terms

fulla

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ful/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English full.

Adjective

full (plural fulls)

(Quebec) full
(Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded

Adverb

full

(Quebec) very, really

Etymology 2

From English full house.

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

(poker) full house

Italian

Etymology

From English full house.

Noun

full m (invariable)

(card games, poker) full house, boat

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /f?l/

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullere, indefinite superlative fullest, definite superlative fulleste)

full (containing the maximum possible amount)
drunk

Derived terms

Related terms

fylle

References

“full” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /f?l?/

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullare, indefinite superlative fullast, definite superlative fullaste)

full (containing the maximum possible amount)
drunk
complete, total

Derived terms

Related terms

fylle

References

“full” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /full/, [fu?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”), from *pleh?- (“to fill”).

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian ful, Old Saxon ful, full, Old High German foll, Old Norse fullr, and Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls).

Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Alternative forms

Adjective

full

full, filled, complete, entire

Declension

Derived terms

full??e

Related terms

fyllan

Descendants

Middle English: full
- English: full
- Scots: fou

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *full? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *p?l(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).

Alternative forms

Noun

full n

a beaker
a cup, especially one with liquor in it

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /f?l/

Adjective

full

full (containing the maximum possible amount)
drunk, intoxicated
Synonyms: berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna

Declension

Derived terms

handfull

Related terms

fylla

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