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rounding

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1. rounding - Noun

2. rounding - Adjective

3. rounding - Verb

Meaning

of Round

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.

Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. Mickey Mantle

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. Alexander John Ellis

We're rounding the turn,our numbers are incredible. Donald Trump

Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error. Elizabeth Kolbert

This idea of suddenly, one day or maybe a night, rounding up 11 million people and taking them outside of this country is a vulgar, absurd idea that I would hope very few people in America support. Bernie Sanders

I have tried to draw realistically and not ideally... It may be a defect, for I have no mercy on warts, and I like adorning them with wanton hairs, rounding them off and giving them a bright surface... - A painter in embryo....- Write me a line soon. I am feverish with anxiety. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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