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rounds

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1. rounds - Noun

2. rounds - Verb

3. Rounds - Proper noun

Meaning

Rounds (plural Roundses)

A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a round or fat person.

rounds

plural of round

The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.

A route taken by someone in authority.
the hourly rounds of the night watchman.

(campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.

rounds

third-person singular simple present indicative of round

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Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one? Rocky Marciano

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. Mark Twain

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds. John Keats

We've got two very despondent gentlemen, we've got Claire, she will get her 500 rounds of bullshit out and stick it in her AK47 and deafen us all in here. Alan Sugar

For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak. Paul Scholes

No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, ... and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour's blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise. Derek Walcott

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