Word info

go round

Speech parts

1. go round - Noun

2. go round - Verb

Meaning

To physically swirl or rotate.

To rotate, to move in a circle.

To go around the side of sth., to bypass something.

To circumvent or to outmanoeuvre someone.

To evade sth.

(fig.) To circulate, to move aimlessly but ghostly (threateningly and invisibly).

To pass around, to circulate sth.

To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.

To go to another person's home or a public event.

To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification)

go-round (plural go-rounds)

One instance of a recurring event.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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go-round

Examples

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. George William Russell

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Philip Larkin

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. Lewis Carroll

Money makes the world go round. English Proverb

Better go round than be drowned. Portuguese Proverb

A liar can go round the world but cannot come back. Russian Proverb

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