round vs windmill

round

noun
  • A circular dance. 

  • 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. 

  • Rotation, as in office; succession. 

  • A circular or repetitious route. 

  • 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. 

  • 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). 

verb
  • 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. 

adj
  • 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. 

windmill

noun
  • A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air. 

  • A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball. 

  • A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind. 

  • Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper. 

  • Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill. 

  • An imaginary enemy, but presented as real. 

  • A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill. 

  • A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. 

  • The structure containing such machinery. 

  • The false shower. 

  • A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop. 

verb
  • To rotate with a sweeping motion. 

  • Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. 

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