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Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon: / A stranger meeting them had surely thought, / They rode so slowly and they look'd so pale, / That each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong.
(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
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.
1854, Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy[1], page 108:
By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.
(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
Hungarian: kerek(hu), kerekítettsg(Formal, used when number was derived from a more accurate value on some purpose. Contrary, "kerek" refers to any round(ed) number. Eg. "1000 is a round number." vs. "For cash payments in Hungary, final sum is rounded to the nearest 5-HUF value since 2008, in which year coins with smaller denominations (1HUF, 2HUF) have been withdrawn from circulation.")
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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, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a differenttime.
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.
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
1978, “Last Summer”, in Blondes Have More Fun, performed by Rod Stewart:
I said I did impersonations would you like to see Turned around to buy her one more round
(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.
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
1981, Tom Hirschfeld, How to Master the Video Games, page 88:
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.
(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.
All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
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.
On life's long round by chance I found A dell impearled with dew, Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, Lent to the earth heaven's native hue Of holy blue.
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.
1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […]Jacob Tonson[…], and John Barber[…], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 437:
[…]the Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd; To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
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1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], London: […]William Rawley[…]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…], →OCLC:
Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
1726, [Joseph Addison], Dialogues Upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals.[…], [London], →OCLC:
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
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.
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, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy,[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member IV:
Tiberius the emperor […] perceiving a fellow round a dead corse in the ear, would needs know wherefore he did so […]
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