Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bookbinding, the operation of shaping the folded and sewed sheets into a slightly convex form at the back. It is done either by hand-tools or by machinery.
- noun The action or attitude of a whale when curving its small in order to dive. Also
rounding-out . - noun Nautical, old rope or strands wound about a rope to prevent its chafing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
- noun (Naut.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also
service . - noun (Phonetics) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See
Guide to Pronunciation , § 11.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
round . - noun The act of
rounding a mathematical value - noun The numerical value obtained by this process
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals
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Examples
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But, I realize that a little bit of cultivated boredom can go a long way in rounding out a childhood.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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But, I realize that a little bit of cultivated boredom can go a long way in rounding out a childhood.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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The fleeing woman stumbled in rounding the end of a picnic bench, and would have been caught had she not seized Mary's arm to recover balance, and then flung Mary full into the arms of the woman who pursued.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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Turning our attention toward the liturgical arts, it may be helpful in rounding out our considerations of what might constitute noble simplicity to recall that Sacrosanctum Concilum also speaks of the sacred arts being characterized by a "noble beauty."
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The only conclusion one can draw is that the cops don't bother to do anything even when they see it happening; like the ladies of the night crying come hither, there's just no percentage in rounding them up.
Graffiti: Mexico City's wall art emerges from the shadows 2009
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The sample was 50: 50 male and female (one more female than male, but she was lost in rounding), 1.1% were in their teens, 13.1% in their twenties, 33.8% in their thirties, 30.6% in their forties, 14.7% in their fifties, and 6.7% aged sixty or older.
Pet life in Japan 2009
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But, I realize that a little bit of cultivated boredom can go a long way in rounding out a childhood.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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The implied backstory can go a long way in rounding out a non-character without turning him into a full-fledged character.
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But, I realize that a little bit of cultivated boredom can go a long way in rounding out a childhood.
Molly Baker: Parenting Lessons from 'Phineas and Ferb' Molly Baker 2010
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I thought Palm could have gone a step beyond too – in rounding off the Synergy Feature with more differentiators … Kudos on your Cobalt efforts.
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