round

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 介词 prep.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹaʊ̯nd/    美 /ˈɹaʊ̯nd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A whisper; whispering. Northern-England,Scotland,archaic,dialectal
  2. A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
    — in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
  3. Discourse; song. Northern-England,Scotland,archaic,dialectal
  4. A circular or repetitious route.
    — hospital rounds
  5. A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
    — The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
  6. A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time. countable
  7. A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
    — They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
  8. A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
    — Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
  9. One slice of bread. UK
    — For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea.
  10. One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
  11. A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
    — 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
  14. A stage, level, set of events in a game; A stage in a competition.
    — qualifying rounds of the championship
  15. A stage, level, set of events in a game; In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
  16. A stage, level, set of events in a game; A stage or level of a game.
    — When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.
  17. A stage, level, set of events in a game; The play after each deal.
  18. A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
  19. A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
    — All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
  20. The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
  21. A rung, as of a ladder. dated
    — All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
  22. A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  23. A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
    — the round of the seasons    a round of pleasures
  24. A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
    — Women to cards may be compar'd: we play ¶ A round or two; when us'd, we throw away.
  25. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
    — The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; […]
  26. A circular dance.
    — Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round.
    Comus
  27. Rotation, as in office; succession.
    — A Cave[…], Where light and darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns.
  28. A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  29. An assembly; a group; a circle.
    — a round of politicians
  30. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  31. A vessel filled, as for drinking. archaic
  32. A round-top.
动词 v.
  1. To shape something into a curve. transitive
    — The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
  2. To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel. Northern-England,Scotland,archaic,dialectal,intransitive
  3. To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper. Northern-England,Scotland,archaic,dialectal,transitive
    — rounded in the ear
  4. To become shaped into a curve. intransitive
    — 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.
  5. To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
    — She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
  6. To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up. intransitive,transitive
    — The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.
  7. To turn past a boundary. transitive
    — Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
  8. To turn and attack someone or something (used with on). intransitive
    — As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
  9. To advance to home plate. transitive
    — And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
  10. To go round, pass, go past. transitive
    — Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.
  11. To encircle; to encompass.
    — The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.
  12. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
    — The queen your mother rounds apace.
  13. To do ward rounds. colloquial
  14. To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds. intransitive,obsolete
    — They […] nightly rounding walk.
  15. To go or turn round; to wheel about. intransitive,obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Of shape:; Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction. physical
    — We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
  2. Of shape:; Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction. physical
    — The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
  3. Of shape:; Loosely or approximately circular. physical
    — a round belly
  4. Of shape:; Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves. physical
    — Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
  5. Of shape:; Plump. physical
    — He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.
  6. Complete, whole, not lacking.
    — The baker sold us a round dozen.
  7. Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
    — One hundred is a nice round number.
  8. Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
    — "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)
  9. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
    — a round answer
  10. Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
    — In his satires Horace is quick, round, and[…]pleasant.
  11. Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct. obsolete
    — Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
  12. Large in magnitude.
    — I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
  13. Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
  14. Vaulted.
  15. Returning to its starting point.
    — round trip, round journey, round walk
副词 adv.
  1. Alternative form of around. alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — The invitations were sent round accordingly.
介词 prep.
  1. Alternative form of around. alt-of,alternative,rare
    — I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
  2. Alternative form of around. alt-of,alternative,rare
    — The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round.

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
fillet
衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
词源 2
From Middle English rounen, from Old English rūnian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly”), from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide”), *raunijaną (“to investigate, examine, prove”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out”). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately”), Middle Low German rūnen (“to whisper”), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper”), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur”), Old English rūn (“whisper, secret, mystery”), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience”). More at rune.
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