Round vs Edge - What's the difference?
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(label) Shape.
# Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
# Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
# Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
# Plump.
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#*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round , rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Complete, whole, not lacking.
* (1809-1892)
(label) Convenient for ing other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
(label) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:the golden round [the crown]
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber 2005, p.50:
*:All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
A circular or repetitious route.
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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
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*(Charles Dickens), (Dombey and Son)
*:There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
*2009 , Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman , 2009 May 26, page A4:
*:Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
(lb) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
(lb) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
*April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
*:And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds
(lb) A stage in a competition.
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(lb) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
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(lb) The hindquarters of a bovine.
(lb) A rung, as of a ladder.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
*:The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
* (1666-1735)
*:Women to cards may be compared: we play / A round or two; which used, we throw away.
*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round .
A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
*(John Keble) (1792-1866)
*:the trivial round , the common task
A circular dance.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round .
Rotation, as in office; succession.
:(Holyday)
A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
An assembly; a group; a circle.
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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
(lb) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
(lb) A round-top.
A round of beef.
Alternative form of around.
* Cowper
* Sir Walter Scott
To shape something into a curve.
* Francis Bacon
* Addison
To become shaped into a curve.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
To finish; to complete; to fill out.
* Shakespeare
To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
To turn past a boundary.
To turn and attack someone or something (used with on ).
(baseball) To advance to home plate.
To go round, pass, go past.
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To encircle; to encompass.
* Shakespeare
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
* Milton
(obsolete) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
(intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
(transitive, archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
* Calderwood
(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.
The boundary line of a surface.
(label) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
An advantage.
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, magazine=(IEEE Spectrum), title= The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
* (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline)'', Act 3, Scene 4, 1818, ''The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare , Volume 6, C. Whittingham, London,
* 1833 , Adam Clarke (editor), (w)'', II, 12, ''The New Testament ,
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost)'', Act 4, Scene 1, 1830, (George Steevens) (editor), ''The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare , Volume 1,
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost)'', 1824, Edwartd Hawkins (editor), ''The Poetical Works of John Milton , Volume 1,
* 1820 , , (Ivanhoe)'', 1833, ''The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott , Volume 3,
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
* , (Jeremy Taylor), Sermon X: The Faith and Patience of the Saints, Part 2'', ''The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor , 1841,
* 1820 , , (Ivanhoe) , 1827,
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
* 1853 (1670), (John Milton), Charles R. Sumner (translator), (The History of Britain)'', ''The Prose Works of John Milton , Volume V,
(label) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
* 2004 March 29, R. Bharat Rao Short report: Ind-Pak T1D2 Session 1 in rec.sports.cricket, Usenet
(label) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging .
To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
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(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
(cricket) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
* 2005 , Paige Gilchrist, The Big Book of Backyard Projects: Walls, Fences, Paths, Patios, Benches, Chairs & More , Section 2: Paths and Walkways,
To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
* Dryden
(figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
* Hayward
To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
* 2011 , Nicholson Baker, House of Holes ,
* 2012 , Ryan Field, Lasting Lust: An Anthology of Kinky Couples in Love ,
* 2012 , Ryan Field, Field of Dreams: The Very Best Stories of Ryan Field,
In lang=en terms the difference between round and edge
is that round is to go round, pass, go past while edge is to delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.As nouns the difference between round and edge
is that round is a circular or spherical object or part of an object or round can be (archaic|or|dialectal|northern england|scotland) a whisper; whispering while edge is the boundary line of a surface.As verbs the difference between round and edge
is that round is to shape something into a curve or round can be (intransitive|archaic|or|dialectal|northern england|scotland) to speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel while edge is to move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.As an adjective round
is (label) shape.As a preposition round
is alternative form of around.As an adverb round
is .round
English
(wikipedia round)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ront, runt ( > French rond), representing an earlier , from (etyl) rotundus ( > Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo etc.). The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding (etyl) noun rond. Compare rotund and rotunda.Adjective
(en-adj)- Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.
- the round assertion
- Sir Toby, I must be round with you.
- In his satires Horace is quick, round , and pleasant.
- Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
Synonyms
* (circular) circular, cylindrical, discoid * (spherical) spherical * (of corners that lack sharp angles) rounded * (plump) plump, rotund * (not lacking) complete, entire, whole * (of a number) rounded * (pronounced with the mouth open) roundedDerived terms
* round angleDerived terms
{{der3, roundabout , round dozen , round-table , round the clock , round trip , rounded vowel}}Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round . But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Synonyms
* (song) canon * (hindquarters of a bovine) rumpAntonyms
* (rounded inside edge) filletDerived terms
* round of applausePreposition
(English prepositions)- I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
- The serpent Error twines round human hearts.
Derived terms
* go round * look roundAdverb
(-)- The invitations were sent round accordingly.
Verb
- The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
- Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
- The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
- The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
- She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
- We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.
- Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.
- Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
- As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
- And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
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- The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
- The queen your mother rounds apace.
- So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.
- They nightly rounding walk.
- (Tennyson)
Derived terms
* round off * round out * round up * round downSee also
* 'roundEtymology 2
From (etyl) rounen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
- (Holland)
- The Bishop of Glasgow rounding' in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," he ' rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"
Etymology 3
From (etyl) roun, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)edge
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Small Drones Deserve Sensible Regulation, passage=It’s no secret that the United States may be losing its edge in civilian aviation. Nowhere is this more apparent than with small unmanned aircraft, those tiny flying robots that promise to transform agriculture, forestry, pipeline monitoring, filmmaking, and more.}}
page 49,
- No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;
page 929,
- And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges :
page 166,
- Here by, upon the edge of yonder coppice; / A stand, where you may make the fairest shoot.
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- In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge / Of battle when it rag'd, in all assaults
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page 69,
- Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices.
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- we are to turn the full edge of our indignation upon the accursed instrument, which had so well nigh occasioned his utter falling away.
page 203,
- supposing that the new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them.
- Finally another edge for 4, this time dropped by the keeper
Synonyms
* (advantage) advantage, gain * (sharp terminating border) brink, lip, margin, rim, boundary * (in graph theory) lineDerived terms
* bottom edge * inside edge * live on the edge * on edge * outside edge * top edgeSee also
*Mathworld article on the edges of polygons*
Mathworld article on the edges of polyhedra*
Science book
Verb
(edg)- He edged the book across the table.
- He edged away from her.
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page 181,
- If you're edging with stone, brick, or another material in a lawn area, set the upper surfaces of the edging just at or not more than ½ inch above ground level so it won't be an obstacle to lawn mowers.
- to edge her champion's sword
- By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged .
page 181
- “I think of it as mine, but, yes, it's his cock I've been edging with. Do you edge?”
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- Paul had been edging since the first young guy started to fuck, and he wanted Paul to come inside his body that night.
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- His mouth was open and he was still jerking his dick. Justin knew he must have been edging by then.