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This should span most of Stephenson's work. 1. Mister Ng was hit by a phospherus round. 2. The Drummers are performing an endless round. 3. The cards could be viewed as potentional currency.

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a Round: (per the community)

  • n. moebius chains, an alias name for a Magic: The Gathering card game, powerfull global game altering effective card-spell possibly
  • n. a short length of unsplit tree trunk
  • n. a serving of alcoholic beverages for each person in a given party
  • n. a time period in a boxing XOR sparring match
  • n. a unit of ammunition
  • n. a musical tune where after listening for a few minutes or so they say, you can't recognize where the tune begins and where it ends...

WordNet Dictionary Definition:

Pronunciation: rawnd

  1. [n] the usual activities in your day; "the doctor made his rounds"
  2. [n] the activity of playing 18 holes of golf; "a round of golf takes about 4 hours"
  3. [n] (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"
  4. [n] any circular or rotating mechanism; "the machine punched out metal circles"
  5. [n] a charge of ammunition for a single shot
  6. [n] a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
  7. [n] an outburst of applause; "there was a round of applause"
  8. [n] 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"
  9. [n] a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
  10. [n] a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic); "he ordered a second round"
  11. [n] a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
  12. [n] the course along which communications spread; "the story is going the rounds in Washington"
  13. [n] (in sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive
  14. [n] an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; "the neverending cycle of the seasons"
  15. [adv] from beginning to end; throughout; "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather the year around"
  16. [adj] (of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand; "in round numbers"
  17. [adj] (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
  18. [adj] having a circular shape
  19. [v] become round, plump, or shapely
  20. [v] make round
  21. [v] express as a round number; "round off the amount"
  22. [v] bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; "polish your social manners"
  23. [v] attack verbally, in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  24. [v] pronounce with rounded lips
  25. [v] wind around; move along a circular course
  26. [v] be around; "Developments surround the town"; "The river encircles the village"

Synonyms:

around, assail, assault, attack, ball-shaped, beat, bout, brush up, bulblike, bulbous, capitate, circle, circle, circular, coccoid, cumuliform, cycle, daily round, discoid, discoidal, disklike, encircle, environ, fill out, full, global, globose, globular, inexact, labialise, labialize, lash out, moonlike, moon-round, nutlike, one shot, orbicular, orbiculate, orotund, pear-shaped, polish, polish up, rhythm, ring, ringlike, rotund, round down, round of drinks, round of golf, round off, round out, roundish, rung, snipe, spheric, spherical, stave, surround, turn, unit of ammunition

Antonyms:

square

See Also:

abuse, alter, ammo, ammunition, applause, articulate, barrage, bear, begird, blackguard, blister, bottom, bottom of the inning, call, carry, change, clapperclaw, clapping, claw, cloister, contain, course, criticise, criticize, crosspiece, cut of beef, disc, disk, enounce, enunciate, feeding chair, folding chair, form, gain, gird, girt, girth, go, golf, golf game, habitude, hand clapping, helping, highchair, hold, hone, interval, itinerary, locomote, move, partsong, path, path, perfect, period of play, phase, phase angle, pick apart, play, playing period, portion, pronounce, purse, put on, rip, rocker, rocking chair, rotating mechanism, round steak, rounded, route, rubbish, say, serving, shape, shout, side chair, sound out, straight chair, time interval, top, top of the inning, track, travel, twine, vitriol, whang, whip, wreath, wreathe

Webster's 1913 Dictionary Definition:

  1. \Round \, v.i. & t. [From {Roun}.] To whisper. [obs.] -- Shak. Holland.

The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, “Ye are not awise man, ” … he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, “Wherefore brought ye me here ?” -- Calderwood. 1. \Round \, a. [OF. roond, roont, reond, F.rond, fr. L.rotundus, fr. rota wheel. See {Rotary}, and cf. {Rotund}, {roundel}, {Rundlet}.]

  1. Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having aform approaching aspherical or acircular shape; orbicular; globular; as, around ball. “The big, round tears. ” -- Shak. Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world. -- Milton.
  2. Having the form of acylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of amusket is round.
  3. Having acurved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of acircle or an ellipse, or aportion of the surface of asphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, around arch; round hills. “Their round haunches gored. ” -- Shak.
  4. Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers. Pliny put around number near the truth, rather than the fraction. -- Arbuthnot.
  5. Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, around price. Three thousand ducats; ' tis agood round sum. -- Shak. Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon. -- Tennyson.
  6. Uttered or emitted with afull tone; as, around voice; around note.
  7. (Phonetics) Modified, as avowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 11.
  8. Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, around answer; around oath. “The round assertion. ” -- M.Arnold. Sir Toby, Imust be round with you. -- Shak.
  9. Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style. [Obs.] In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant. -- Peacham.
  10. Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct. Round dealing is the honor of man's nature. -- Bacon.
  11. {At around rate}, rapidly. -- Dryden.
  12. {In round numbers}, approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, etc.; as, abin holding 99 or 101 bushels may be said to hold in round numbers 100 bushels.
  13. {Round bodies} (Geom.), the sphere right cone, and right cylinder.
  14. {Round clam} (Zo [" o]l.), the quahog.
  15. {Round dance}one which is danced by couples with awhirling or revolving motion, as the waltz, polka, etc.
  16. {Round game}, agame, as of cards, in which each plays on his own account.
  17. {Round hand}, astyle of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; -- distinguished from running hand.
  18. {Round robin}. [Perhaps F.round round +ruban ribbon.]

(a)Awritten petition, memorial, remonstrance, protest, etc., the signatures to which are made in acircle so as not to indicate who signed first. “No round robins signed by the whole main deck of the Academy or the Porch. ” -- De Quincey. (b) (Zo [" o]l.) The cigar fish. 1. {Round shot}, asolid spherical projectile for ordnance. 2. {Round Table}, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See {Knights of the Round Table}, under {Knight}. 3. {Round tower}, one of certain lofty circular stone towers, tapering from the base upward, and usually having aconical cap or roof, which crowns the summit, -- found chiefly in Ireland. They are of great antiquity, and vary in heigh from thirty -five to one hundred and thiry feet. 4. {Round trot}, one in which the horse throws out his feet roundly; afull, brisk, quick trot. -- Addison. 5. {Round turn} (Naut.), one turn of arope round atimber, abelaying pin, etc. 6. {To bring up with around turn}, to stop abruptly. [Colloq.] Syn :Circular; spherical; globular; globase; orbicular; orbed; cylindrical; full; plump; rotund.

\Round \, n. 1. Anything round, as acircle, aglobe, aring. “The golden round ” [the crown]. -- Shak. In labyrinth of many around self -rolled. -- Milton.

  1. A series of changes or events ending where it began; aseries of like events recurring in continuance; acycle; aperiodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; around of pleasures.

  2. A course of action or conduct performed by anumber of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in acircle. Women to cards may be compared :we play Around or two; which used, we throw away. -- Granville. The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round. -- Prior.

  3. A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated. the trivial round, the common task. -- Keble.

  4. A circular dance. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In alight fantastic round. -- Milton.

  5. That which goes round awhole circle or company; as, around of applause.

  6. Rotation, as in office; succession. -- Holyday.

  7. The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair. All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise. -- Dryden.

  8. A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing acircuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.

  9. (Mil.) (a) 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; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural. (b) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once. (c) Ammunition for discharging apiece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.

  10. (Mus.) A short vocal piece, resembling acatch in which three or four voices follow each other round in aspecies of canon in the unison.

  11. The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; about.

  12. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

  13. A vessel filled, as for drinking. [R.]

  14. An assembly; agroup; acircle; as, around of politicians. -- Addison.

  15. (Naut.) See {Roundtop}.

  16. Same as {Round of beef}, below. {Gentlemen of the round}. (a)Gentlemen soldiers of low rank who made the rounds. See 10 (a), above. (b)Disbanded soldiers who lived by begging. [Obs.] Worm -eaten gentlemen of the round, such as have vowed to sit on the skirts of the city, let your provost and his half dozen of halberdiers do what they can. -- B.Jonson.

  17. {Round of beef}, the part of the thigh below the aitchbone, or between the rump and the leg. See Illust. of {beef}.
  18. {Round steak}, abeefsteak cut from the round.
  19. {Sculpture in the round}, sculpture giving the full form, as of man; statuary, distinguished from relief.

\Round \, adv. 1. On all sides; around. Round he throws his baleful eyes. -- Milton. 2. Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; awheel turns round. 3. In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round. 4. From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions. 5. By or in acircuit; by acourse longer than the direct course; back to the starting point. 6. Through a circle, as of friends or houses. The invitations were sent round accordingly. -- Sir Walter Scott. 7. Roundly; fully; vigorously. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. 1. {All round}, over the whole place; in every direction. 2. {All -round}, of general capacity; as, an all -round man. 3. [Colloq.] - {To bring one round}.

(a)To cause one to change his opinions or line of conduct. (b)To restore one to health. [Colloq.]

\Round \, prep. On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind acable round awindlass. The serpent Error twines round human hearts. -- Cowper. 1. {Round about}, an emphatic form for round or about. “Moses … set them [The elders]round about the tabernacle. ” -- Num. xi. 24. 2. {To come round}, to gain the consent of, or circumvent, (aperson) by flattery or deception. [Colloq.]

\Round \, v.t. [imp. & p.p. {Rounded}; p.pr. & vb. n. {Rounding}.] 1. To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give around or convex figure to; as, to round asilver coin; to round the edges of anything. Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber. -- Bacon. The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to avery great perfection. -- Addison. 2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass. The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. -- Shak. 3. To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to afit conclusion. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with asleep. -- Shak. 4. To go round wholly or in part; to go about (acorner or point) ; as, to round acorner; to round Cape Horn. 5. To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. -- Swift.

  1. {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

\Round \, v.i. 1. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection. The queen your mother rounds apace. -- Shak. So rounds he to aseparate mind, From whence clear memory may begin. -- Tennyson. 2. To go round, as aguard. [Poetic]They. . . nightly rounding walk. -- Milton. 3. To go or turn round; to wheel about. -- Tennyson. 1. {To round to} (Naut.), to turn the head of aship toward the wind.