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
(v. t.) To go round wholly or in part |
Round
(v. t.) To make full, smooth, and flowing |
Round
(v. i.) To grow round or full |
Round
(v. i.) To go round, as a guard. |
Round
(v. i.) To go or turn round |
Round-arm
(a.) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. |
Round-backed
(a.) Having a round back or shoulders |
| 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 |
| wire-haired fox terrier | a fox terrier with wiry hair |
wirehair
wirehaired terrier
wire-haired terrier | a terrier with wiry hair |
| griffon wire-haired pointing griffon | breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat, originated in Holland but largely developed in France |
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 |
| baling wire | wire used to make bales |
barbed wire
barbwire | strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage |
cannonball
cannon ball
round shot | a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon |
| chicken wire | a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh, used to build fences |
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 |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
guy
guy cable
guy wire
guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
| high wire | a tightrope very high above the ground |
ovolo
thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
| piano wire | thin steel wire of high tensile strength |
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 |
telephone wire
telephone line telegraph wire
telegraph line | the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals |
| trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
| wire | ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc |
| wire conducting wire | a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance |
| wire cloth | fabric woven of metallic wire |
| wire cutter | an edge tool used in cutting wire |
wire gauge
wire gage | gauge for measuring the diameter of wire |
wire matrix printer
wire printer
stylus printer | an impact printer in which each character is represented by a pattern of dots made by wires or styli |
| wire recorder | an early type of magnetic recorder using iron wire |
| wire stripper | a hand tool used by electricians to remove insulation from the cut end of an insulated wire |
| 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) |
telegram
wire | a message transmitted by telegraph |
| round robin | a letter signed by a number of people |
| round | an outburst of applause, there was a round of applause |