Word Type
Round can be an adjective, a preposition, an adverb, a noun or a verb.
round used as an adjective:
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
"We sat at a round table to make conversation easier." - 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." - Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
"Our child's bed has round corners for safety." - Plump
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
"The baker sold us a round dozen." - Of a number that has been rounded off or approximated.
"One hundred is a nice round number." - Pronounced with the mouth open in the shape of an "O".
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
round used as a preposition:
- Alternative form of around.
"I look round the room quick to make sure it's neat looking."
Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →
round used as an adverb:
- Alternative form of around.
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
round used as a noun:
- A circular object.
- A circular or repetitious route; hospital rounds.
- An general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
"2009 Condon, Patrick, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Assocated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman, May 26, 2009, p A4:" - A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- A bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Cf. round shot and solid shot.
- 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.
- A stage in a competition.
"qualifying rounds of the championship" - In some sports', e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
round used as a verb:
- To shape something into a curve.
"The carpenter rounded the edges of the table." - To finish; to complete; to fill out.
"She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class." - To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
"Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred." - To turn past a boundary.
"Helen watched him until he rounded the corner." - To turn and attack someone or thing.
"As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm." - To advance to home plate.
"And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones." - To whisper.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is round?
- Adjective usage: We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
- Adjective usage: The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
- Adjective usage: Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
- Adjective usage: The baker sold us a round dozen.
- Adjective usage: One hundred is a nice round number.
- Preposition usage: I look round the room quick to make sure it's neat looking.
- Noun usage: 2009 Condon, Patrick, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Assocated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman, May 26, 2009, p A4:
- Noun usage: Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
- Noun usage: qualifying rounds of the championship
- Verb usage: The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
- Verb usage: She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
- Verb usage: Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
- Verb usage: Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
- Verb usage: As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
- Verb usage: And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of round are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of round, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
