Merry-go-round
(n.) Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement |
Quarter round
() An ovolo. |
Return
(v. i.) To turn back |
Return
(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular |
Return
(v. i.) To speak in answer |
Return
(v. i.) To revert |
Return
(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
Return
(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back |
Return
(v. t.) To repay |
Return
(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense |
Return
(v. t.) To give back in reply |
Return
(v. t.) To retort |
Return
(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
Return
(v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior |
Return
(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
Return
(v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done |
Return
(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
Return
(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
Return
(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner |
Return
(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition |
Return
(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition |
Return
(n.) That which is returned. |
Return
(n.) A payment |
Return
(n.) An answer |
Return
(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like |
Return
(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
Return
(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold |
Return
(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
Return
(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
Return
(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
Return
(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
Return
(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer |
Return
(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
Round
(v. i. & t.) To whisper. |
Round
(a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center |
Round
(a.) Having the form of a cylinder |
Round
(a.) Having a curved outline or form |
Round
(a.) Full |
Round
(a.) Not inconsiderable |
Round
(a.) Uttered or emitted with a full tone |
Round
(a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape |
Round
(a.) Outspoken |
Round
(a.) Full and smoothly expanded |
Round
(a.) Complete and consistent |
Round
(n.) Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown]. |
Round
(n.) A series of changes or events ending where it began |
Round
(n.) A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle. |
Round
(n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated. |
Round
(n.) A circular dance. |
Round
(n.) That which goes round a whole circle or company |
reappearance
return | the act of someone appearing again, his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited |
| return homecoming | a coming to or returning home, on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party |
trip trip-up
stumble misstep | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder, he recited the whole poem without a single trip, he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later, confusion caused his unfortunate misstep |
restitution
return restoration regaining | getting something back again, upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing |
| split ticket | a ballot cast by a voter who votes for candidates from more than one party |
| straight ticket | a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party |
| trip | a light or nimble tread, he heard the trip of women's feet overhead |
| trip | a journey for some purpose (usually including the return), he took a trip to the shopping center |
| round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
| scouting trip | an expedition undertaken to gain information |
excursion
jaunt
outing
junket
pleasure trip
expedition sashay | a journey taken for pleasure, many summer excursions to the shore, it was merely a pleasure trip, after cautious sashays into the field |
| field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
ocean trip
voyage | an act of traveling by water |
| return | the act of going back to a prior location, they set out on their return to the base camp |
self-aggrandizement
self-aggrandisement
ego trip | an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance |
| round daily round | the usual activities in your day, the doctor made his rounds |
round of golf
round | the activity of playing holes of golf, a round of golf takes about hours |
| round dance round dancing | a ballroom dance characterized by revolving movement |
round dance
ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
| return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble |
| return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
| power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
| round-thelock patrol | a continuous nonstop patrol |
| round | (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order), the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning, the postman's rounds, we enjoyed our round of the local bars |
self-gratification
head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
return paying back
getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
quahog
quahaug
hard-shell clam
hard clam
round clam
Venus mercenaria
Mercenaria mercenaria | an edible American clam, the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians |
round-tailed muskrat
Florida water rat
Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
round whitefish
Menominee whitefish
Prosopium cylindraceum | a whitefish with a bronze back, of northern North America and Siberia |
round scad
cigarfish
quiaquia
Decapterus punctatus | small fusiform fish of western Atlantic |
arena theater
theater in the round | a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage |
box office
ticket office
ticket booth | the office where tickets of admission are sold |
cannonball
cannon ball
round shot | a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon |
circle
round | any circular or rotating mechanism, the machine punched out metal circles |
circus tent
big top
round top
top | a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance, he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent, they had the big top up in less than an hour |
ovolo
thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
return key
return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
round unit of ammunition
one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
| round arch | an arch formed in a continuous curve, characteristic of Roman architecture |
| round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
| round file | a file with a circular cross section, used to file the inside of holes |
Round Table
King Arthur's Round Table | (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights |
| rung round stave | a crosspiece between the legs of a chair |
| ticket window | a window through which tickets are sold (as from a ticket booth) |
| trip line | a light rope used in lumbering to free a dog hook from a log at a distance |
tripper
trip | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch, the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water |
| trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
ticket
just the ticket | the appropriate or desirable thing, this car could be just the ticket for a small family |
| round bone | bones that are round in shape |
round ligament of the uterus
ligamentum teres uteri | ligament attached to the uterus on either side in front of and below the opening of the Fallopian tube and passing through the inguinal canal to the labia majora |