ROUNDS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

a circular piece of something

circular piece of something

• cut the pastry into rounds

an act of visiting a number of people or places in turn

act of visiting several people or places in turn

• she did the rounds of her family to say goodbye

each of a sequence of sessions in a process, typically characterized by development between one session and another

each of sequence of sessions in process

• the two sides held three rounds of talks

a regularly recurring sequence of activities

regularly recurring sequence of activities

• their lives were a daily round of housework and laundry

a song for three or more unaccompanied voices or parts, each singing the same theme but starting one after another, at the same pitch or in octaves; a simple canon.

song for three or more unaccompanied voices or parts

a slice of bread

slice of bread

• two rounds of toast

the amount of ammunition needed to fire one shot

amount of ammunition needed to fire one shot

• the gun can fire 30 rounds a second

pass and go round (something) so as to move on in a changed direction

pass and go round something so as to move on in changed direction

• the ship rounded the cape and sailed north

alter (a number) to one less exact but more convenient for calculations

alter number to one less exact but more convenient for calculations

• we'll round the weight up to the nearest kilo
• the committee rounded down the figure
• let's just round it off to an even ten dollars

give a round shape to

give round shape to

• a lathe that rounded chair legs