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.
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
A circular dance.
Rotation, as in office; succession.
A circular or repetitious route.
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 long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
An assembly; a group; a circle.
A round-top.
A round of beef.
A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
A stage in a competition.
A stage or level of a game.
The hindquarters of a bovine.
A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
The play after each deal.
A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
To go round, pass, go past.
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
To shape something into a curve.
To turn past a boundary.
To advance to home plate.
To encircle; to encompass.
To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
To do ward rounds.
To become shaped into a curve.
To finish; to complete; to fill out.
Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
Complete, whole, not lacking.
Large in magnitude.
Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
Plump.
Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
Vaulted.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
A hard blow, usually with the fist.
A black screen.
A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
A ship that sails slowly.
The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
A hitchhiking commuter.
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
To make sluggish.
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
To load with a slug or slugs.