round
 I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
30 mile/360 kilometre/2 hour etc round trip
▪ A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon.
a round number (=a number ending in zero)
▪ A hundred is a nice round number.
a round of golf (=a complete game of golf)
▪ He invited me to join him for a round of golf.
a round of negotiations (=one part of a series of negotiations)
▪ the next round of negotiations on trade barriers
a round of redundancies (=one set of redundancies in a series)
▪ The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.
a round of talks (=a series of talks that is part of a longer process)
▪ A third round of talks was held in May.
a round trip (=a journey to a place and back again)
▪ His wife makes a hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week.
call in/round for a chat
▪ Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
come around/round the bend
▪ Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
drive sb up the wall/round the bend/out of their mindspoken informal (= make someone feel very annoyed)
▪ That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
edge your way into/round/through etc sth
▪ Christine edged her way round the back of the house.
endless round of
▪ an endless round of boring meetings
enough to go round (=enough of something for everyone to have some)
▪ Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
go round/around
▪ Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
in round figures (=to the nearest 10, 20, 100 etc)
▪ In round figures, about 20 million people emigrated from Europe during that period.
milk round
paper round
round a corner (=come around it)
▪ A tall good-looking man rounded the corner.
round here
▪ There are no good pubs round here.
round of applause (=a short period of applause)
▪ She got a round of applause when she finished.
round robin
▪ a round robin tournament
round the bend
▪ He rounded the bend much too fast.
round/out the backBritish English (= behind a house or building)
▪ Have you looked round the back?
round/oval/square
▪ Her face was round and jolly.
round/square etc in shape
▪ The dining room was square in shape.
round/wide
▪ The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
slog your way through/round etc sth
▪ He started to slog his way up the hill.
the opposite way round
▪ Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round.
top round
working round the clock (=working day and night without stopping)
▪ Forty police officers are working round the clock to find Murray’s killer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(just) around/round the corner
▪ Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
▪ I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
▪ Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
▪ She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
▪ She peered round the corner of the house.
▪ She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
▪ The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
▪ There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a clip round the ear/earhole
▪ You might get a clip round the ear.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
▪ This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
a square peg in a round hole
all (the) year round
▪ Centrally heated and open all year round.
▪ Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
▪ It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
▪ Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
▪ Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
▪ Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
▪ We have witches all year round.
all round
be the wrong way round/around
▪ Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
be/go round the bend
▪ But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
▪ I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
▪ If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc
bring the conversation around/round to sth
▪ With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
clip sb round the ear/earhole
drive sb round the bend
▪ Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
get round sb
get round sth
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
▪ A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
▪ But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
▪ Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
▪ Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
▪ It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
▪ Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
▪ Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
▪ There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
▪ Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
look around/round (sth)
▪ Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
▪ Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
▪ He looks around him at everybody watching.
▪ I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
▪ In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
▪ My heart sank as I looked around.
▪ Two old ladies look round in my direction.
▪ When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
pale-faced/round-faced etc
round the twist
▪ You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
see around/round sth
talk around/round sth
▪ Get people talking round a subject.
▪ He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
▪ In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
▪ It was the talk around the base.
▪ Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
▪ We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
▪ We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
▪ Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the milk round
the other way around/round
▪ It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
▪ It only works the other way round.
▪ Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
▪ Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
▪ Right now, that is the other way around.
▪ The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
▪ What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
▪ A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
▪ Or was it the other way round?
▪ See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
▪ She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
▪ Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
▪ They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
▪ When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 NOUN
face
▪ She was young, with a round face and brown curly hair.
▪ Nina had a round face, pale skin and short-cut hair.
▪ A face rushed up to meet him, clear and lifelike; he stared into the sweet round face of his long-dead wife.
▪ His round face seems small above his wide shoulders.
▪ Their faces slipped through her mind, round faces and long faces, thin, fat, smiling, sombre.
▪ Ted was the shortest with a very round face.
▪ With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform.
▪ He had a round face made jovial by bright, almost boyish eyes and eyebrows ridiculously small for a man his size.
figure
▪ The relief showed instantly on their faces as the small round figure of their uncle filled the doorway.
▪ Estimates for the delay, given in round figures, ranged from two to eight hours.
▪ As the end of the decade approached, natural growth was carrying this towards a round figure of 50 million.
▪ Twenty is a nice, round figure.
▪ The LibDems, in round figures, had 45 percent, Conservatives 25 percent and Labour 17.
▪ That's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots - say ten miles in round figures.
▪ Never ask for a big round figure.
head
▪ The baby ones are as pretty and appealing as kittens with their little round heads.
▪ She wore her mixed gray Afro closely cut to the shape of her round head.
▪ Paulette thought the Prince disgustingly ugly: he was obnoxiously thin, with a bulbous round head on a ridiculously long neck.
▪ There would be no need for the round head and the round socket.
neck
▪ Design: round neck, long sleeve top and long johns, women's and men's designs available.
▪ With its pretty round neck, softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail, it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers.
▪ A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery.
▪ A Crêpe-de-chine T-Top blouse with cap sleeves and a round neck bound in self cloth.
▪ For a round neck, join one shoulder seam before estimating.
▪ For a round neck, the band can be single or double thickness but a V-neck band can only be single thickness.
▪ She had tried to soften the effect of long sleeves and a high round neck with a pair of pearl stud earrings.
▪ Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck.
robin
▪ Mr. Speaker: I think that the Hon. Member might start the round robin.
▪ In a three-pair round robin tournament they finished ahead of Simon Jacob and Anthony Chapman.
▪ Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4, 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase.
▪ Cricket this year switches to an eight-aside round robin for under-12 teams, run over two days.
table
▪ On a small round table, polished for him by Dadda, was a bust of Tace.
▪ A round table was covered with a white linen cloth and glistening silverware.
▪ There was a paperback on the round table to the right of her chair.
▪ They sat at a round table covered with a lace cloth.
▪ A round table covered in cracked oilcloth stood bare of bowls, jugs, cups and saucers.
▪ They dream of a great castle called Camelot and a round table that could seat 150 knights.
▪ In the middle of the room was a round table covered with oilcloth, and four high-backed carved chairs set around it.
trip
▪ Duncan charged £5-a-head for the 200-mile round trip to the new brewery.
▪ The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.
▪ Distributors would travel perhaps a 1,500-kilometre round trip to collect stocks of vehicle accessories.
▪ Radio signals from Laurel to Mathilde and back will need 36 minutes to make the round trip.
▪ The Rocky Mountaineer will continue to make one round trip a week in summer from Vancouver to Calgary.
▪ However, it has scheduled three extra round trips between Phoenix and Las Vegas on Sunday, to accommodate people staying there.
▪ This is a round trip of some 16 miles and on Skye counts as one of the easiest expeditions.
▪ The round trip of some twelve miles is one of the finest of mountain expeditions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(just) around/round the corner
▪ Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
▪ I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
▪ Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
▪ She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
▪ She peered round the corner of the house.
▪ She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
▪ The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
▪ There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a clip round the ear/earhole
▪ You might get a clip round the ear.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
▪ This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
all (the) year round
▪ Centrally heated and open all year round.
▪ Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
▪ It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
▪ Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
▪ Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
▪ Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
▪ We have witches all year round.
all round
be/go round the bend
▪ But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
▪ I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
▪ If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc
bring the conversation around/round to sth
▪ With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
clip sb round the ear/earhole
drive sb round the bend
▪ Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
get round sb
get round sth
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
▪ A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
▪ But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
▪ Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
▪ Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
▪ It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
▪ Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
▪ Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
▪ There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
▪ Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
look around/round (sth)
▪ Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
▪ Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
▪ He looks around him at everybody watching.
▪ I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
▪ In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
▪ My heart sank as I looked around.
▪ Two old ladies look round in my direction.
▪ When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
pale-faced/round-faced etc
round the twist
▪ You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
see around/round sth
talk around/round sth
▪ Get people talking round a subject.
▪ He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
▪ In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
▪ It was the talk around the base.
▪ Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
▪ We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
▪ We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
▪ Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the milk round
the other way around/round
▪ It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
▪ It only works the other way round.
▪ Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
▪ Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
▪ Right now, that is the other way around.
▪ The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
▪ What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
▪ A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
▪ Or was it the other way round?
▪ See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
▪ She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
▪ Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
▪ They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
▪ When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a short round man
▪ European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.
▪ He wore round glasses with wire rims.
▪ His bald round head reminded her of Sam.
▪ His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
▪ In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.
▪ It probably costs more, but $200 is a nice round number.
▪ She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
▪ The moon was perfectly round that night.
▪ The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.
▪ Violet stared at him with her huge round eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His large round eyes probed Miguel that first time, as if he could look inside with ease.
▪ It's sunglasses all round as our richly-coiffed Tory front benchers try to fight eye-strain caused by their chrome-domed pinko opponents.
▪ Some women ground corn or wheat on huge round stones.
▪ The round dining table is dark rosewood with a matching set of chairs.
▪ The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
daily
▪ He said post-operative checks were also carried out as a matter of routine on patients during daily morning ward rounds.
▪ After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
▪ For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster.
▪ It seems J.F. Cooper played his daily rounds with only five clubs!
early
▪ If no list is submitted, then any list submitted in earlier rounds will be deemed still to apply.
▪ In earlier rounds there were two notable casualties.
▪ Canoe-Kayak: The sprint competition begins, and the scene shifts to Lake Lanier for early rounds in six classes.
▪ It is the way Biggs fights and he can be expected to steal the early rounds.
endless
▪ It saves me getting involved in all that endless round of relatives.
▪ People who do so condemn themselves to an endless round of debate over something they can never achieve.
final
▪ The final round of judging is next month.
▪ While there is a certain grubby vitality to the show, it wears thin long before the final round of moralizing.
▪ The back nine of that final round would again decide.
▪ It was also the day of the final round of the Masters.
▪ Toney made the last day and the final two rounds, and I was on my way.
▪ Wright flew back to cover the final round of the tourney.
▪ Phil Mickelson's final-round 66 set a target of 14 under par.
▪ The final round was a wild one, and not just from the leaders' standpoint.
fresh
▪ De Klerk begins fresh round of discussions.
▪ International concern was reflected in a fresh round of criticism.
late
▪ Newslines Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol.
▪ In the latest round of polls, Peres holds a 5 percentage point lead over Netanyahu.
▪ Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger.
▪ He talked with Hardaway, delivered the latest in a round of lectures designed to soothe his client.
▪ Voice over There's concern the programme could have prompted the latest round of violence.
▪ Sir Peter was responding to the latest round of monopoly accusations.
new
▪ Officially there is widespread backing for a new round.
▪ The announcement of her decisions in mid-June promises a new round of controversy.
▪ Last month, Total Entertainment completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $ 12 million.
▪ She and other attorneys predicted a new round of lawsuits for trademark infringement.
▪ Next came the inaugural luncheon and a new round of insincere bipartisan pieties.
▪ A new computing approach: a whole new round of investment?
▪ That has prompted top Dole advisers here to urge a new round of much tougher ads attacking Forbes.
preliminary
▪ We will however be publishing a special feature on the preliminary and first rounds, carrying score-cards and photographs wherever possible.
▪ Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists.
usual
▪ One evening in late November, he did his usual round of the buildings to check his animals before going to bed.
▪ Steve Francis got his usual round of jeers in the city he spurned.
VERB
begin
▪ De Klerk begins fresh round of discussions.
▪ The artillery began firing beehive rounds, which I had never seen before at minimum elevation.
▪ A decision will take another week, after Scalfaro begins a third round of meetings with political leaders.
▪ From almost the first day, she and her husband had begun the round of public hospitals and clinics.
complete
▪ After completing three rounds of the Barkhor we left to return to the nunnery separately.
▪ Last month, Total Entertainment completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $ 12 million.
fire
▪ Striding boldly over I fired a sharp round of insults.
▪ One of the tanks was firing beehive rounds point-blank.
▪ Gunmen fired more than 100 rounds into his black Chevrolet Suburban, killing him instantly.
▪ Just prior to our assault, they had fired 6, 000 rounds of artillery and bombed it all morning.
▪ The artillery began firing beehive rounds, which I had never seen before at minimum elevation.
▪ Then Charlie started firing mortar rounds.
▪ During an ambush we sprung near Hoc Mon, I remember firing 25 to 30 rounds as fast as I could.
make
▪ He made rounds throughout the night, checking on the oxen and buffaloes tethered in the field.
▪ The Paladins are practically regulars here in the Old Pueblo, making their round of Tucson stages on an almost quarterly basis.
▪ And when our constable makes the rounds, interviewing her daughter's friends, what do they do?
▪ It was what modern people here said about themselves, a word that was making the rounds.
▪ He makes the rounds of all the schools each year and pitches the fourth-and fifth-graders.
▪ One example was Pedro. l first met Pedro while I was making rounds in the hospital in 1960.
▪ These are three big lies that nutritionists and obesity experts say are making the rounds this season.
▪ Louis Blues first made the rounds.
play
▪ The tournament was played over three rounds as a result of local government elections and the imposition of travel restrictions.
▪ If his vision clears right away, Miller could be playing in the first round of the playoffs.
▪ He played in all four rounds and was still able to take the weekend off.
▪ He's played many good rounds and usually has one bad one per tournament.
▪ Any opponent we play in the first round is going to be tough.
▪ The full hand was as shown below: - Note what happens if declarer plays 2 rounds of trumps before proceeding.
▪ They eat, play sixteen rounds, feast again, then tell stories.
win
▪ He won the third round of the Isle of Man Archery League long metric three.
▪ It was the first time Gibson had won a round this year.
▪ Philip Jackson won the second round of the club's float only league at Bond's Bridge.
▪ Now Bush has regained his position as frontrunner by winning the first unofficial rounds of the campaign.
▪ Then, in 1994, Clinton won a round when the Senate approved Deval Patrick without much controversy.
▪ The first team to guess correctly wins the round.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a millstone round/around sb's neck
▪ This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
a square peg in a round hole
all (the) year round
▪ Centrally heated and open all year round.
▪ Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
▪ It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
▪ Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
▪ Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
▪ Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
▪ We have witches all year round.
all round
be the wrong way round/around
▪ Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
bring the conversation around/round to sth
▪ With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
clip sb round the ear/earhole
get round sb
get round sth
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
▪ A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
▪ But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
▪ Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
▪ Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
▪ It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
▪ Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
▪ Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
▪ There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
▪ Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
look around/round (sth)
▪ Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
▪ Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
▪ He looks around him at everybody watching.
▪ I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
▪ In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
▪ My heart sank as I looked around.
▪ Two old ladies look round in my direction.
▪ When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
see around/round sth
talk around/round sth
▪ Get people talking round a subject.
▪ He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
▪ In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
▪ It was the talk around the base.
▪ Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
▪ We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
▪ We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
▪ Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the milk round
the other way around/round
▪ It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
▪ It only works the other way round.
▪ Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
▪ Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
▪ Right now, that is the other way around.
▪ The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
▪ What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
▪ A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
▪ Or was it the other way round?
▪ See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
▪ She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
▪ Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
▪ They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
▪ When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cut the carrots into half-inch rounds.
▪ Hamed won the fight in the seventh round.
▪ I'll buy the next round of beers.
▪ More than 30 rounds were fired at the guards.
▪ Purdue lost to Kansas State in the third round.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it isn't; it's the good rounds that bring you back.
▪ Cunningly simple: two contestants, three rounds and a panel of three celebrity judges.
▪ Last week in New York, he stopped respectable light heavyweight Merqui Sosa in only two rounds.
▪ The first four rounds are designed to produce 32 prize-winning county champions, who will then go forward to the national rounds.
▪ The heroes of the last round were perhaps Paul Clarkson and John Simpkins, the goalkeeper.
▪ The second round of voting is scheduled for May 5.
▪ To serve, place sauteed bread rounds on warm plates and arrange birds on top.
IV. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
bend
▪ But there he was when I rounded a bend, holding a treasure he landed on this hunt.
▪ A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry.
▪ As Clark rounded a bend in the trail, he saw the wheelchair.
▪ As if summoned by that anger, Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path, rod in hand.
▪ As I rounded the final bend I came face to face with the water jump.
▪ Then they rounded the bend by the Bahan shrine and dropped down into the darkness of the valley.
▪ He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.
corner
▪ It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she hadn't thanked him for walking her home.
▪ But the tour revealed that the building has retained many treasures from its past: Its cathedral ceilings still have rounded corners.
▪ As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks.
▪ Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
▪ She rounded a corner quickly; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated.
▪ He knew it would be gone before he rounded the corner.
▪ Even nails stopped in his stride as they rounded the corner by the cinema queue.
▪ The race for the nomination has rounded a corner.
curve
▪ The blush rounded the curve of her bosom, red hot and rising.
▪ The arms of the tee shirt barely rounded the curve of his shoulders, the hem hung an inch above his navel.
▪ But as they descended, rounding the curve beneath the beautiful arched window, the hall below them revealed itself.
▪ They rounded curve after curve in the darkness.
▪ He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads.
▪ I rounded the curve, looking for a place to pull in.
day
▪ While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip, the children would round off the day with sports.
▪ To round off his day of despair Button was forced to retire with an exhaust failure six laps from home.
edge
▪ Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.
▪ The prongs had rounded edges that fit into finely finished grooves.
▪ Although he sometimes rounded the rough edges off the truth, he remained an amusing raconteur and lively company.
▪ Clinton is a lifelong politician with a gift for speaking with rounded edges designed to keep people happy and options open.
▪ As they rounded the edge of the building, he could see that behind the house was a vast garden.
▪ The wood is a brown color a little deeper than milk chocolate, smooth with rounded edges for aerodynamics.
▪ When sanding take care not to round the sharp edges.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(just) around/round the corner
▪ Around the corner, their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
▪ I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
▪ Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
▪ She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
▪ She peered round the corner of the house.
▪ She was around the corner, talking to Hoffmann.
▪ The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
▪ There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a clip round the ear/earhole
▪ You might get a clip round the ear.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
▪ This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
a square peg in a round hole
all (the) year round
▪ Centrally heated and open all year round.
▪ Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
▪ It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
▪ Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
▪ Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
▪ Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
▪ We have witches all year round.
all round
be the wrong way round/around
▪ Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
be/go round the bend
▪ But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
▪ I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
▪ If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.
big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc
drive sb round the bend
▪ Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend.
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
▪ A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
▪ But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
▪ Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts, large and in charge.
▪ Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
▪ It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts.
▪ Llewelyn's well served in these parts, it seems.
▪ Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts.
▪ There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts.
▪ Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
pale-faced/round-faced etc
round the twist
▪ You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
the milk round
the other way around/round
▪ It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
▪ It only works the other way round.
▪ Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
▪ Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
▪ Right now, that is the other way around.
▪ The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
▪ What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
▪ A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
▪ Or was it the other way round?
▪ See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
▪ She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
▪ Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
▪ They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
▪ When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As I rounded the corner, I could see that the house was on fire.
▪ The edges of the counter have been rounded to make them safer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.
▪ All that slim, rounded, unclothed flesh I'd seen - from the back - had not been girl flesh.
▪ Dear Jamie, Please remember to round your letters and curl your tails.
▪ Drop by rounded teaspoons on to a greased non-stick cookie sheet.
▪ He was rounded up about a week later, having stolen four more vehicles.
▪ The race for the nomination has rounded a corner.
▪ The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
▪ Their huts were short tepees protected by tree branches or rounded huts covered with animal skins.
round
I. round1 S2 W2 /raʊnd/ especially British English (also around) adverb, preposition
[Word Family: noun: round, rounders, roundness; adverb: round, roundly; adjective: round, rounded; verb: round]
1. surrounding or on all sides of something or someone:
▪ We sat round the table playing cards.
▪ Gather round! I have an important announcement to make.
▪ He put his arm gently round her waist.
▪ I kept the key on a chain round my neck.
▪ The ballroom’s huge, with windows all the way round.
▪ There was a lovely courtyard with tables all round.
2. used to say that someone or something turns so that they face in the opposite direction:
▪ When he turned round I recognised him immediately.
▪ Graham glanced round, startled by the voice behind him.
3. in or to many places or parts of an area:
▪ Reggie went round making sure all the lights were off.
▪ Leah showed me round on my first day at the office.
▪ A guide took us round the palace and gardens.
▪ He spent a whole year travelling round Europe.
▪ She looked round the room as though leaving it for the last time.
▪ changes that are affecting the weather all round the world
4. moving in a circle:
▪ She watched the clock hands go round.
▪ An aeroplane was circling round far overhead.
▪ Until the 16th century people believed that the sun went round the earth.
▪ He stared at the washing machine, just watching the clothes go round and round.
▪ a shoal of tiny fish swimming round in circles
5. informal if you go round to someone’s house, you go to their house, usually to visit them:
▪ I might go round to Nigel’s this evening.
▪ He’s invited us round for dinner.
▪ We’ll be round (=will arrive) at seven.
6. to other people or positions:
▪ A big box of chocolates was handed round.
▪ He’d moved his furniture round.
7. on the other side of something, or to the other side of it without going through it or over it:
▪ He ran round to open Kate’s door for her.
▪ There must be another entrance round the back.
▪ I watched the two boys disappear round the corner.
round to
▪ She came round to his side of the desk.
8. in the area near a particular place:
▪ Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture.
▪ Do you live round here?
▪ He owned all the land round about (=in the surrounding area).
9. round about
spoken informal (also round) used when guessing a number, amount, time etc without being exact SYN approximately:
▪ We got there round about half past nine.
▪ He’s round about the same age as my son.
▪ It must have been round midnight when I saw him.
10. used to show that someone spends time in a place without doing anything useful:
▪ People were just standing round and not doing anything to help.
11. if something is organized round a particular person or thing, it is organized according to their needs, wishes, ideas etc:
▪ Working from home, she could arrange her hours round her children.
▪ He had built his whole existence round her.
12. a way round a difficult situation or problem is a way to solve it or avoid it:
▪ She’s going to have to buy a car. I can’t see any other way round it.
▪ strategies to get round (=solve) the problem
13. used to show the length of a line surrounding something:
▪ The park was about five miles round.
⇨ ALL ROUND, ⇨ go round in circles at circle1(5), ⇨ (a)round the clock at clock1(2), ⇨ (just) around/round the corner at corner1(9), ⇨ first/second time round at time1(3), ⇨ way round at way1(24)
II. round2 S1 W2 adjective
[Word Family: noun: round, rounders, roundness; adverb: round, roundly; adjective: round, rounded; verb: round]
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : roont, from Latin rotundus]
1. shaped like a circle:
▪ a big round table
▪ Jamie’s eyes grew round with delight.
2. shaped like a ball:
▪ small round berries
3. fat and curved:
▪ round chubby cheeks
4. [ONLY BEFORE NOUN]
a round number or figure is a whole number, often ending in 0 ⇨ round up:
▪ Let’s make it a round figure: say £50?
in round figures (=expressed as the nearest 10, 100, 1,000 etc)
▪ Altogether, in round figures, there are about three thousand students here.
a round hundred/dozen etc (=a complete hundred etc)
⇨ a square peg in a round hole at square1(12)
—roundness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
III. round3 noun [COUNTABLE]
[Word Family: noun: round, rounders, roundness; adverb: round, roundly; adjective: round, rounded; verb: round]
1. SERIES a round of events is a series of related events, which are part of a longer process
round of
▪ a third round of peace talks
▪ the Government’s latest round of expenditure cuts
2. COMPETITION one of the parts of a competition that you have to finish or win before you can go on to the next part ⇨ heat, stage
the first/final/next/qualifying etc round
▪ I got beaten in the first round.
▪ Two of their candidates made it through to the next round.
round of
▪ the final round of the championship
3. REGULAR ACTIVITIES round of something a round of activities is a regular series of activities, especially activities that are not very exciting:
▪ an endless round of meetings and interviews
▪ He continued with his usual round of private and business engagements.
▪ the daily round of commuting and shopping
4. VISITS rounds [PLURAL]the usual visits that someone, especially a doctor, regularly makes as part of their job
be (out) on your rounds
▪ I’m sorry. The doctor is out on her rounds.
5. round of applause
when people clap for a short time to show that they enjoyed something or approve of something:
▪ She got a big round of applause.
▪ The passengers gave the pilot a round of applause.
6. GOLF a complete game of golf:
▪ I played a round of golf on Sunday morning.
7. BOXING/WRESTLING one of the periods of fighting in a boxing or wrestling match
8. DRINKS if you buy a round of drinks in a bar, you buy drinks for all the people in your group
it’s my/your etc round (=used to say whose turn it is to buy drinks for all the people in your group)
▪ What are you having? It’s my round.
9. do the rounds
British English informal, make the rounds American English (also go the rounds British English) if a story, idea, or illness does the rounds, it is passed on from one person to another:
▪ a joke doing the rounds
10. do the rounds of something
British English, make the rounds of something American English to go around from one place to another, especially looking for work or advertising something:
▪ Ryan is making the rounds of talk shows to promote her new movie.
11. GUN SHOT a single shot from a gun, or a bullet for one shot:
▪ I’ve only got ten rounds of ammunition left.
▪ Richards fired a few rounds.
12. CIRCLE something that has a circular shape:
▪ Slice the potatoes into rounds.
13. FOOD/NEWSPAPERS/LETTERS ETC British English a regular visit to a number of houses, offices etc to deliver or sell things
paper/milk round (=a job in which you deliver newspapers, milk etc to people’s houses)
▪ I used to do a paper round.
14. SONG a song for three or four singers, in which each one sings the same tune, starting at a different time
15. round of sandwiches
British English sandwichesmade from two whole pieces of bread
16. round of toast
British English one whole piece of bread that has been toasted
17. in the round
a play that is performed in the round is performed on a central stage surrounded by the people watching it
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COLLOCATIONS
phrases
▪a round of talks/negotiations/meetings
▪ A second round of talks got under way this week.
▪a round of voting
▪ In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote,
▪a round of cuts (=when a government or a company reduces the size or amount of something)
▪ The President is likely to approve a new round of cuts in military forces.
▪a round of layoffs (=when people are told to leave their jobs)
▪ The latest round of layoffs could bring its labor force down to 60,000.
▪a round of violence
▪ What has prompted the latest round of violence?
IV. round4 verb
[Word Family: noun: round, rounders, roundness; adverb: round, roundly; adjective: round, rounded; verb: round]
1. [TRANSITIVE]
to go round something such as a bend or the corner of a building:
▪ As they rounded the bend and came in sight of the river, Philip took her hand.
▪ The tide was coming in as he rounded the rocks.
2. [TRANSITIVE]
to make something into a round shape:
▪ The stones were then rounded, polished and engraved.
3. [INTRANSITIVE]
written if your eyes round, you open them wide because you are shocked, frightened etc:
▪ Barbara’s eyes rounded in surprise.
⇨ rounded, well-rounded
round something ↔ down phrasal verb
to reduce an exact figure to the nearest whole number ⇨ round up:
▪ For the 1841 census it was decided to round down ages over fifteen to the nearest five.
round something ↔ off phrasal verb
1. to do something as a way of ending an event, performance etc in a suitable or satisfactory way SYN finish
round something ↔ off with
▪ You can round off the evening with a visit to the nightclub.
▪ She rounded off the meal with some cheese.
▪ It was the perfect way to round off the season.
2. to take the sharp or rough edges off something:
▪ Round off the corners with a pair of scissors.
3. to change an exact figure to the nearest whole number
round something ↔ off to
▪ Prices are rounded off to the nearest dollar.
round on somebody phrasal verb British English
to suddenly turn and attack someone when they do not expect it, either with words or physically:
▪ When the door closed, Crabb rounded on Edwards. ‘You stupid idiot!’
round something ↔ out phrasal verb
to make an experience more thorough or complete:
▪ African percussion and Native American flute round out the show.
round somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verb
1. if police or soldiers round up a particular group of people, they find them and force them to go to prison:
▪ Thousands of men were rounded up and jailed.
2. to find and gather together a group of people, animals, or things:
▪ See if you can round up a few friends to help you!
▪ His dog Nell started to round up the sheep.
3. to increase an exact figure to the next highest whole number ⇨ round down
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