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Among all Geometricall figures the sphćriall or the round is the most perfect, and amongst all naturall bodies the heauen is the most excellent.

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  1. adjective Being such that every part of the surface or the circumference is equidistant from the center: a round ball.
  2. adjective Moving in or forming a circle.
  3. adjective Shaped like a cylinder; cylindrical.
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  • The centre of the round was an irregular patch, coloured green to indicate an open space, which lay in the angle made by the junction of two traffic ways, Edge Street running south to the Park and the long Barrow Road going west. —  Tether's End (Hide My Eyes) - Margery Allingham - Campion 17: 1958
  • While this round was actually developed back in 1983, it wasn't until the last few years that it has gained in popularity. —  338
  • Another seed safely into the next round is American Mardy Fish. —  Blogbot - forsiden
  • Waiting for Fish in the next round is Serbian Janko Tipsarevic after the unseeded 25-year-old marched to a 6-4 6-4 7-6 victory over Jan Hernych. —  Blogbot - forsiden
  • The planes flying overhead during your round is a reasonable tradeoff for this convenience.
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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman rounde, variant of Old French rond, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *retundus, from Latin rotundus, from rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English rounden, from Old English rūnian, from rūn, a secret.

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  1. Early modern English also rownd; from Middle English round, rownd, ronde = Dutch rond = Middle High German runt, German rund = Danish Swedish rund, from Old French rond, roont, roond, French rond = Provencal redon, redun = Catalan redó, rodó = Spanish Portuguese rotundo, redondo = Italian rotondo, ritondo, from Latin rotundus, like a wheel, round, circular, spherical, from rota, a wheel: see rota, and cf. rotund. Hence ult. roundel, roundelay, rondeau, rundlet, etc.
  2. from Middle English round; from round, a.
  3. Prop. an aphetic form of around: see around.
  4. = Dutch ronden, round, = German runden, become round, ründen, make round, = Swedish runda = Danish runde, make round, = French rondir, become round; from the adjective (in defs. I., 4, 5, and II., 2, 3, 5, rather from the adverb): see round, adjective, round, adv..
  5. With excrescent d, as in sound, pound, etc.; from Middle English rounen, rownen, runen, from Anglo-Saxon rūnian (= Old Dutch rūnen, Middle Dutch ruinen, ruynen = Old Low German runōn = Old High German rūnēn, Middle High German rūnen, German raunen, later Old French runer), whisper, murmur, from rūn, mystery: see rune.
  6. from Middle English roun, from Anglo-Saxon rūn, a whisper, secret, mystery: see round, v., and rune.
 

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