4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Round \Round\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rounding}.] 1. To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything. [1913 Webster] Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass. [1913 Webster] The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion. [1913 Webster] We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn. [1913 Webster] 5. To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. --Swift. [1913 Webster] {To round in} (Naut.) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. --Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Rounded \Round"ed\, a. (Phonetics) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 11. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: rounded adj 1: curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" [ant: {angular}] 2: a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" [syn: {fat}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 165 Moby Thesaurus words for "rounded": Junoesque, abrupt, accented, alveolar, annular, annulate, annulose, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arched, arciform, articulated, assimilated, back, bagging, baggy, ballooning, barytone, bellied, bellying, bellylike, bent, bilabial, billowing, billowy, bloated, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bosomy, bowed, broad, built, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, circinate, circular, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, convex, coronary, crownlike, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, cyclic, cycloid, dental, discoid, disklike, dissimilated, distended, dorsal, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, faired, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hillocky, hummocky, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, moutonnee, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, obtuse, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pneumatic, pointless, posttonic, potbellied, pouching, retroflex, ring-shaped, ringlike, rotund, round, rounded out, semivowel, smoothed, soft, sonant, stacked, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, swelling, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unedged, unpointed, unrounded, unsharp, unsharpened, unstressed, velar, verrucated, verrucose, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warty, weak, well-developed, wide
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