All round synonyms
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R r verb round
- camber β A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.
- margined β Having a margin.
- girdle β a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- go round β go-around (defs 2, 3).
- make ready β the state or condition of being ready.
- eddying β a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- mature β complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- cambering β a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- whorl β a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
- grow up β to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- girdled β a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
- boxed in β simple past tense and past participle of box in.
- inflect β to modulate (the voice).
- come of age β If something comes of age, it reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people.
- ensphere β (transitive) To place in a sphere; to envelop.
adj round
- dull β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- chubby β A chubby person is rather fat.
- globate β shaped like a globe.
- discoid β having the form of a discus or disk; flat and circular.
- biconcave β (of a lens) having concave faces on both sides; concavo-concave
- edgeless β a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- concave β A surface that is concave curves inwards in the middle.
noun round
- colure β either of two great circles on the celestial sphere, one of which passes through the celestial poles and the equinoxes and the other through the poles and the solstices
- equator β An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0 Β°.
- cannonball β A cannonball is a heavy metal ball that is fired from a cannon.
- whistlestop β (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- curvation β the action of curving or bending
- orb β Object Request Broker
- catenary β the curve assumed by a heavy uniform flexible cord hanging freely from two points. When symmetrical about the y-axis and intersecting it at y = a, the equation is y = a cosh x/a
- globe β the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- innings β Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.
- ogee β a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
- disc β any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- helix β a spiral.
- circulation β The circulation of a newspaper or magazine is the number of copies that are sold each time it is produced.
- oldie β a popular song, joke, movie, etc., that was in vogue at a time in the past.
- orbit β the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- crossfire β Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- flection β the act of bending.
- inning β Usually, ins. persons in office or political power (distinguished from outs).
- ecliptic β Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.
adverb round
- approximate β An approximate number, time, or position is close to the correct number, time, or position, but is not exact.
adv round
- in the ballpark β a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- all but β All but a particular person or thing means everyone or everything except that person or thing.
adjective round
- orbed β Having the form of an orb; round; spherical.
- orbicular β like an orb; circular; ringlike; spherical; rounded.
- counterclockwise β If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- orbiculate β orbicular; rounded.
- zaftig β (of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure.
preposition round
- across β If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of it to the other.