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Oval vs. Round: Know the Difference

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By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Oval refers to an elongated, curved shape resembling an egg, while round denotes a circular shape, equidistant from the center at all points.
Oval vs. Round

Key Differences

Oval shape is elongated and resembles an egg or ellipse. Round represents a perfectly circular shape with equal radii.
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Oval often used to describe objects or shapes that are longer than they are wide. Round used for objects that have a consistent diameter throughout.
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Oval is the term implies a certain asymmetry, being wider in one dimension. Round implies symmetry and uniformity in all directions from the center.
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Oval commonly used in describing faces, tracks, or frames. Round often used for objects like balls, plates, or wheels.
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Oval can be seen as a distortion of a round shape, stretched in one direction. Round represents an ideal geometric form, a circle.
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Comparison Chart

Shape Description

Elongated, egg-like shape
Perfectly circular shape
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Symmetry

Asymmetrical, wider in one axis
Symmetrical in all directions
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Common Usage

Faces, tracks, frames
Balls, plates, wheels
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Geometric Form

Ellipse or elongated circle
Circle with equal radii
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Visual Impression

Stretched or elongated circle
Uniform and consistent diameter
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Oval and Round Definitions

Oval

A shape similar to an ellipse but less technical.
The racing track was oval in design.
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Round

Something with a consistent curvature.
The round ball rolled smoothly.
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Oval

A curved shape, not perfectly circular.
The mirror had a beautiful oval frame.
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Round

A form where all points are equidistant from the center.
She drew a round circle freehand.
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Oval

An elongated, rounded shape resembling an egg.
The table had an elegant oval shape.
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Round

Symmetrical in all directions from a central point.
The round table facilitated easy conversation.
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Oval

A form that is broader in one direction than the other.
Her face had a distinctive oval contour.
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Round

Being such that every part of the surface or the circumference is equidistant from the center
A round ball.
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Oval

Something that is not completely round but stretched.
The pond was more oval than round.
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Round

Moving in or forming a circle.
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Oval

Resembling an egg in shape.
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Round

Shaped like a cylinder; cylindrical.
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Oval

Resembling an ellipse in shape; elliptical.
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Round

Rather rounded in shape
The child's round face.
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Oval

An egg-shaped or elliptical form or figure.
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Round

Full in physique; plump
A round figure.
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Oval

An elliptical track, as for racing or athletic events.
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Round

(Linguistics) Formed or articulated with the lips in a rounded shape
A round vowel.
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An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. Category:en:Curves
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Round

Full in tone; sonorous.
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Oval

A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
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Round

Whole or complete; full
A round dozen.
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Oval

(math) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
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Round

(Mathematics) Having been rounded.
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(AU) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
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Round

Not exact, especially when expressed as a multiple of 10; approximate
A round estimate.
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Oval

Having the shape of an oval.
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Round

Large; considerable
A round sum of money.
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Oval

Of or pertaining to an ovum.
Oval conceptions
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Round

Brought to satisfactory conclusion or completion; finished.
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Oval

Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
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Round

Outspoken; blunt
A round scolding.
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Oval

Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
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Round

Done with full force; unrestrained
Gave me a round thrashing.
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Oval

Broadly elliptical.
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Round

Something, such as a circle, disk, globe, or ring, that is round.
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Oval

A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
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Round

A circle formed of various things.
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A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it;
The sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant
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Round

Movement around a circle or about an axis.
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Oval

Rounded like an egg
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Round

A rung or crossbar, as one on a ladder or chair.
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Round

A cut of beef from the part of the thigh between the rump and the shank.
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Round

An assembly of people; a group.
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Round

A round dance.
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Round

A complete course, succession, or series
A round of parties.
A round of negotiations.
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Round

Often rounds A course of customary or prescribed actions, duties, or places
Physicians' rounds.
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Round

A complete range or extent.
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Round

One drink for each person in a gathering or group
Let me buy the next round.
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Round

A single outburst, as of applause or cheering.
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Round

A single shot or volley.
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Round

Ammunition for a single shot or volley.
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Round

A specified number of arrows shot from a specified distance to a target in archery.
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Sports & Games A unit of play that occupies a specified time, constitutes a certain number of plays, or allows each player a turn, especially the 18-hole sequence played in golf or one of the periods in a boxing match.
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(Music) A composition for two or more voices in which each voice enters at a different time with the same melody.
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Round

To make round or curved
Rounded his lips in surprise.
Rounded off the end of the board.
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Round

(Linguistics) To pronounce with rounded lips; labialize.
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Round

To fill out; make plump.
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Round

To bring to completion or perfection; finish. Often used with out or off
The new dog rounded out our household. The speaker rounded off his lecture with a joke.
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(Mathematics) To approximate (a real number) by a nearby rational number with a specified level of precision. When rounded to the nearest hundred, 286 becomes 300. When rounded to the nearest tenth, 1.63 becomes 1.6.
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Round

To make a turn about or to the other side of
Rounded a bend in the road.
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Round

To make a complete circuit of; go or pass around
Rounded the entire peninsula.
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Round

(Archaic) To encompass; surround:
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To become round or curved.
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Round

To take a circular course; complete or partially complete a circuit
Racecars rounding into the final lap.
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Round

To turn about, as on an axis
Rounded and came back across the field.
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To become filled out or plump.
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Round

To develop into satisfactory completion or perfection
Is rounding into a fine quarterback.
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Round

To whisper.
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Round

In a circular progression or movement; around.
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Round

With revolutions
Wheels moving round.
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Round

To a specific place or person
Called round for the pastor.
Sent round for the veterinarian.
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Round

Around.
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Round

From the beginning to the end of; throughout
A plant that grows round the year.
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Round

(physical) Of shape:
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Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
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Round

Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
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Round

Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
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Round

Plump.
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Round

Complete, whole, not lacking.
The baker sold us a round dozen.
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Round

(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
One hundred is a nice round number.
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Round

(phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
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Round

Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
A round answer; a round oath
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Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
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Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
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Large in magnitude.
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Round

Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
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Round

(architecture) Vaulted.
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A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
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Round

A circular or repetitious route.
Hospital rounds
The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.
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Round

A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
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A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
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A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
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One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
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(art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
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A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
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(sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
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A stage, level, set of events in a game
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(sports) A stage in a competition.
Qualifying rounds of the championship
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(sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
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(video games) A stage or level of a game.
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(cards) The play after each deal.
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A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
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A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
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(butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
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(dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
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A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
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A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
The round of the seasons
A round of pleasures
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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
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A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
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A circular dance.
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Rotation, as in office; succession.
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A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
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An assembly; a group; a circle.
A round of politicians
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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
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(archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
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(nautical) A round-top.
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A round of beef.
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A whisper; whispering.
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Discourse; song.
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Alternative form of around
I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
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Alternative form of around
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(transitive) To shape something into a curve.
The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
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(intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
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(with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
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(intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
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(transitive) To turn past a boundary.
Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
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(intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
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Round

To advance to home plate.
And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
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(transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
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To encircle; to encompass.
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To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
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To do ward rounds.
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To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
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To go or turn round; to wheel about.
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To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
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To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
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To whisper.
The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"
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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.
Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
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To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
The inclusive vergeOf golden metal that must round my brow.
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To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.
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To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
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To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
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To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
The queen your mother rounds apace.
So rounds he to a separate mind,From whence clear memory may begin.
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To go round, as a guard.
They . . . nightly rounding walk.
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To go or turn round; to wheel about.
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Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball.
Upon the firm opacous globeOf this round world.
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Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
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Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills.
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Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; - said of numbers.
Pliny put a round number near the truth, rather than the fraction.
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Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.
Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.
Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.
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Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
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Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, 11.
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Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
Sir Toby, I must be round with you.
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Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; - said of style, or of authors with reference to their style.
In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant.
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Round

Complete and consistent; fair; just; - applied to conduct.
Round dealing is the honor of man's nature.
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Round

Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].
In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled.
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Round

A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures.
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A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
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Round

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

One work cycle, consisting of drilling blast holes, loading them with explosive, blasting, mucking out, and, if necessary, installing temporary support.
. . . Inco is still much more advanced than other mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the current mining productivity from 3,350 tonnes to 6,350 tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24 hours.
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Round

A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
Women to cards may be compared: we playA round or two; which used, we throw away.
The feast was served; the bowl was crowned;To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round.
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Round

A complete set of plays in a game or contest covering a standard number of individual plays or parts; as, a round of golf; a round of tennis.
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Round

One set of games in a tournament.
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Round

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

A circular dance.
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,In a light fantastic round.
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Round

That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.
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Round

Rotation, as in office; succession.
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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.
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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.
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A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
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Round

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

A vessel filled, as for drinking; as, to drink a round od ale together.
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Round

An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
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Round

See Roundtop.
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Round

Same as Round of beef, below.
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.
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Round

On all sides; around.
Round he throws his baleful eyes.
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Round

Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
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Round

In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
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Round

From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, - that is, to change sides or opinions.
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Round

By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
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Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
The invitations were sent round accordingly.
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Round

Roundly; fully; vigorously.
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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 a cable round a windlass.
The serpent Error twines round human hearts.
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Round

A charge of ammunition for a single shot
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Round

An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;
The neverending cycle of the seasons
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Round

A regular route for a sentry or policeman;
In the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name
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Round

(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
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Round

The activity of playing 18 holes of golf;
A round of golf takes about 4 hours
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Round

The usual activities in your day;
The doctor made his rounds
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Round

(sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive
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Round

The course along which communications spread;
The story is going the rounds in Washington
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Round

A serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic);
He ordered a second round
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Round

A cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
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Round

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
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Round

An outburst of applause;
There was a round of applause
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Round

A crosspiece between the legs of a chair
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Round

Any circular or rotating mechanism;
The machine punched out metal circles
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Round

Wind around; move along a circular course;
Round the bend
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Round

Make round;
Round the edges
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Round

Be around;
Developments surround the town
The river encircles the village
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Round

Pronounce with rounded lips
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Round

Attack in speech or writing;
The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker
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Round

Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state;
Polish your social manners
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Round

Express as a round number;
Round off the amount
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Round

Become round, plump, or shapely;
The young woman is fleshing out
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Round

Having a circular shape
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(of sounds) full and rich;
Orotund tones
The rotund and reverberating phrase
Pear-shaped vowels
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Round

(of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand;
In round numbers
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Round

From beginning to end; throughout;
It rains all year round on Skye
Frigid weather the year around
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Round

A shape perfectly circular in form.
The clock had a simple round face.
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Round

An object or shape without corners or edges.
The round pebbles were smooth to touch.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries

Can an oval be symmetrical?

Ovals are typically asymmetrical, being elongated in one direction.
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Are oval shapes found in nature?

Yes, many natural forms like eggs and leaves are oval.
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Are oval shapes common in design?

Yes, ovals are often used in design for aesthetics and function.
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What defines an oval shape?

An oval is an elongated, rounded shape, wider in one direction.
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Can a round shape be elongated?

No, elongation would make it oval, not round.
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Is an oval a type of circle?

An oval is similar to a circle but elongated and not perfectly round.
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Can round shapes be compressed?

Compressing a round shape would make it no longer round.
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How is a round shape characterized?

Round shapes are perfectly circular, with equal radii from the center.
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Do round shapes have any edges?

No, round shapes are characterized by a lack of edges.
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Is a round object always perfectly circular?

Yes, round objects have consistent curvature and diameter.
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Is an oval considered geometrically precise?

Ovals are less precise than circles, often more organic.
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Can an oval be created by distorting a circle?

Yes, elongating a circle in one direction creates an oval.
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Do ovals have equal dimensions?

No, ovals have longer and shorter dimensions.
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Are round objects easy to roll?

Yes, the symmetry of round objects makes them easy to roll.
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Is an oval always symmetrical on two axes?

Not always; ovals can vary in symmetry.
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Are ovals used in architecture?

Yes, ovals are often used for their aesthetic appeal in architecture.
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Do round shapes have a center point?

Yes, round shapes have a distinct center point.
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Is round a geometric term?

Yes, round is a geometric term referring to circles.
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Can a round object be flattened?

Flattening would alter the round shape.
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Can round shapes vary in diameter?

No, varying diameter would mean the shape is no longer round.
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