Bracket
(n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same |
Bracket
(n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. |
Bracket
(n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. |
Bracket
(n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. |
Bracket
(n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes |
Bracket
(n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. |
Bracket
(v. t.) To place within brackets |
Merry-go-round
(n.) Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement |
Quarter round
() An ovolo. |
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 |
Round
(n.) Rotation, as in office |
Round
(n.) The step of a ladder |
Round
(n.) A course ending where it began |
Round
(n.) A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe |
Round
(n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once. |
Round
(n.) Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once |
Round
(n.) A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison. |
Round
(n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules |
Round
(n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole. |
Round
(n.) A vessel filled, as for drinking. |
Round
(n.) An assembly |
Round
(n.) See Roundtop. |
Round
(n.) Same as Round of beef, below. |
Round
(adv.) On all sides |
Round
(adv.) Circularly |
Round
(adv.) In circumference |
Round
(adv.) From one side or party to another |
Round
(adv.) By or in a circuit |
Round
(adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses. |
Round
(adv.) Roundly |
Round
(prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle |
Round
(v. t.) To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical |
Round
(v. t.) To surround |
Round
(v. t.) To bring to fullness or completeness |
| round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
arena theater
theater in the round | a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage |
bracket
wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
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 |
| gas bracket | a pipe with one or more burners projecting from a wall |
ovolo
thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
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 |
| shelf bracket | a bracket to support a shelf |
| 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 |
fenestra rotunda
fenestra cochleae
round window
fenestra of the cochlea | fenestra leading into the cochlea |
| round hand | a clearly written style of longhand with large round curves |
round-trip ticket
return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
| round robin | a letter signed by a number of people |
| round | an outburst of applause, there was a round of applause |
bracket
square bracket | either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material |
| bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
round
troll | a partsong in which voices follow each other, one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time, they enjoyed singing rounds |
round table
roundtable
round-table conference | a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views, a roundtable on the future of computing |
| round robin | a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant |
| round | a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg |
| round steak | a lean cut of beef from between the rump and the shank |
| top round | roast cut from the round, usually suitable for roasting |
| bottom round | cut from the round, suitable for pot roast |
quahaug
quahog
hard-shell clam
round clam | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells, large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes |
| round round of drinks | a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic), he ordered a second round |
age group
age bracket
cohort | a group of people having approximately the same age |
| bracket | a category falling within certain defined limits |
income bracket
tax bracket
income tax bracket | a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income |
| price bracket | a category of merchandise based on their price |
beat
round | a regular route for a sentry or policeman, in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name |
paper route
paper round | the route taken when delivering newspapers every day |