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If something happens all year round, it happens throughout the year. Many of these plants are evergreen, so you can enjoy them all year round

You use round in expressions such as this time round or to come round when you are describing something that has happened before or things that happen regularly. In the past, the elections have been marked by hundreds of murders, but this time round the violence has been much more limited

You can use round to give the measurement of the outside of something that is shaped like a circle or a cylinder. I'm about two inches larger round the waist. Round is also an adverb. It's six feet high and five feet round

To be positioned round a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move round a place means to go along its edge, back to the point where you started. They were sitting round the kitchen table All round us was desert Round is also an adverb. Visibility was good all round The goldfish swam round and round in their tiny bowls

round PREPOSITION AND ADVERB USES ; Round is an adverb and preposition that has the same meanings as `around'. Round is often used with verbs of movement, such as `walk' and `drive', and also in phrasal verbs such as `get round' and `hand round'. Round is commoner in British English than American English, and it is slightly more informal. Please look at category

If you turn round, you turn so that you are facing or going in the opposite direction. She paused, but did not turn round The wind veered round to the east

If something is built or based round a particular idea, that idea is the basis for it. That was for a design built round an existing American engine

If you hand or pass something round, it is passed from person to person in a group. John handed round the plate of sandwiches. Round is also a preposition. They started handing the microphone out round the girls at the front

vagueness You use round in front of times or amounts to indicate that they are approximate. I go to bed round 11: 00 at night

If you move things round, you move them so they are in different places. I've already moved things round a bit to make it easier for him

You use round in informal expressions such as sit round or hang round when you are saying that someone is spending time in a place and is not doing anything very important. As we sat round chatting, I began to think I'd made a mistake Round is also a preposition. She would spend the day hanging round street corners

round the corner: see corner the other way round: see way

If you go round to someone's house, you visit them. I think we should go round and tell Kevin to turn his music down He came round with a bottle of champagne. Round is also a preposition in non-standard English. I went round my wife's house

If you move round a corner or obstacle, you move to the other side of it. If you look round a corner or obstacle, you look to see what is on the other side. Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side One of his men tapped and looked round the door

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emphasis You say all round to emphasize that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group. It ought to make life much easier all round

You use round to say that something happens in or relates to different parts of a place, or is near a place. He happens to own half the land round here I think he has earned the respect of leaders all round the world Round is also an adverb. Shirley found someone to show them round So you're going to have a look round?

If you say that something is going round and round in your head, you mean that you can't stop thinking about it. It all keeps going round and round in my head till I don't know where I am

If you win someone round, or if they come round, they change their mind about something and start agreeing with you. He did his best to talk me round, but I wouldn't speak to him

If a wheel or object spins round, it turns on its axis. Holes can be worn remarkably quickly by a wheel going round at 60mph

vagueness In spoken English, round about means approximately. Round about one and a half million people died

If you get round a problem or difficulty, you find a way of dealing with it. Don't just immediately give up but think about ways round a problem