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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:
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid
- Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid
- (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
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
- 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.
- 1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
- Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth
- 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.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, page 50:
- 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.
- 2009 May 26, Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman, page A4:
- 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
- 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, Fightville[2], The A.V. Club:
- A stage, level, set of events in a game
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- (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.
- c. 1732, George Granville, Women
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holyday to this entry?)
- 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.
- 1782, William Cowper, The Progress of Error
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.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (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
See also
- 'round
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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- 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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track
English
Etymology
From Middle English trak, tracke, from Old French trac (“track of horses, trail, trace”), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic source, either Old Norse traðk ("a track; path; trodden spot"; > Icelandic traðk (“a track; path; tread”), Faroese traðk (“track; tracks”), Norwegian tråkke (“to trample”)) or from Middle Dutch trec, *trac, treck ("line, row, series"; > Dutch trek (“a draft; feature; trait; groove; expedition”)), German Low German Treck (“a draught; movement; passage; flow”). See tread, trek.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?k, IPA(key): /t?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
track (plural tracks)
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- Synonyms: trace, trail, wake
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- Synonyms: footprint, impression
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- Synonyms: path, road, way
- Physical course; way.
- Synonyms: course, path, trajectory, way
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- Synonyms: course, racetrack
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- Synonyms: rails, railway, train tracks, tracks
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Synonyms: area, parcel, region, tract
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game (page 11)
- A real pimp is a gentleman, but these are pimps in gorilla suits. They hang around pimps, they have hoes on the track working for them, they may even look like pimps, but they are straight simps.
- 2012, Paul D. Jones, Twilight Nights: The Trials and Tribulations of the Game (page 130)
- After putting Tonya Down on the track, we headed to this club called the Players Club.
- 2012, Pimpin' Ken, PIMPOLOGY: The 48 Laws of the Game (page 11)
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- Synonym: track width
- (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- Synonyms: ground, pitch
- Sound stored on a record.
- Synonym: recording
- The physical track on a record.
- Synonym: groove
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- Synonyms: athletics, track and field
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
- The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- path
- trail
Verb
track (third-person singular simple present tracks, present participle tracking, simple past and past participle tracked)
- To continue over time.
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- We will track the raven population over the next six months.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- My height tracks my father's at my age, so I might end up as tall as him.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- The camera tracked the ball even as the field of play moved back and forth, keeping the action in shot the entire time.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- The hurricane tracked further west than expected.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- 1837, Elizabeth Parker, Popular Poems. Selected by E. P. (page 228)
- I've swept o'er the mountain, the forest and fell, / I've played on the rock where the wild chamois dwell; / I have tracked the desert so dreary and rude, / Through the pathless depths of its solitude; […]
- 1837, Elizabeth Parker, Popular Poems. Selected by E. P. (page 228)
- (transitive) To tow.
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- Is the patient tracking? Does he know where he is?
- 2004, Catherine Anderson, Blue Skies, Penguin (?ISBN), page 39:
- Bess already knew about the painkillers and alcohol not mixing well.... "I wasn't tracking very well."
- 2010 October 1, "karimitch" (username), "Memory Loss - Pancreatic Cancer Forums", in cancerforums.net, Cancer Forums:
- My mother in the past couple of days has started to really get confused and lose her train of thought easily.... She isn't tracking very well.
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- My uncle spent all day tracking the deer, whose hoofprints were clear in the mud.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- I tracked Joe to his friend's bedroom, where he had spent the night.
- 2017 August 25, Aukkarapon Niyomyat & Panarat Thepgumpanat, "Thai junta seeks Yingluck's arrest as former PM skips court verdict", in reuters.com, Reuters:
- "She could be at any hospital...she could be ill. It's not clear whether she has fled," he told reporters. "Yingluck has many homes and many cars. It is difficult to track her."
- (transitive) To leave in the form of tracks.
- In winter, my cat tracks mud all over the house.
- (transitive) To make tracks on.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- Lil Kyle is gonna track with that DJ next week.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- 2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music
- At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.
- 2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
Synonyms
- (observe the state of an object over time): monitor
- (monitor the movement of a person or object): follow
- (discover the location of a person or object): find, locate, trace, track down
- (be consistent with known information): make sense, check out
Derived terms
- track down
- track with
- tracking shot
Related terms
- tracker
Translations
Spanish
Etymology
From English track.
Noun
track m (plural tracks)
- (sports) track
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