Round vs Street - What's the difference?

As an adjective round

is (label) shape.

As a noun 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.

As a preposition round

is alternative form of around.

As an adverb round

is .

As a verb round

As a proper noun street 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)

(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.

#*: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)

Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon.

(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)

the round assertion

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Sir Toby, I must be round with you.

Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.

* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)

In his satires Horace is quick, round , and pleasant.

Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

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) rounded

Derived terms

* round angle

Derived terms

{{der3, roundabout , round dozen , round-table , round the clock , round trip , rounded vowel}}

Noun

(en noun)

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

*: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.

*, chapter=15

, title= 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.}}

A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

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.

*(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.

(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.

(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.

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.

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.

Synonyms

* (song) canon * (hindquarters of a bovine) rump

Antonyms

* (rounded inside edge) fillet

Derived terms

* round of applause

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Alternative form of around.

I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.

* Cowper

The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

Derived terms

* go round * look round

Adverb

(-)

* Sir Walter Scott

The invitations were sent round accordingly.

Verb

To shape something into a curve.

The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.

* Francis Bacon

Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.

* Addison

The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.

To become shaped into a curve.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

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.

To finish; to complete; to fill out.

She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.

* Shakespeare

We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.

To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.

Ninety-five rounds up to one hundred.

To turn past a boundary.

Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.

To turn and attack someone or something (used with on ).

As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.

(baseball) To advance to home plate.

And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.

To go round, pass, go past.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=March 2 , author=Andy Campbell , title=Celtic 1 - 0 Rangers , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.}}

To encircle; to encompass.

* Shakespeare

The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.

To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

* Shakespeare

The queen your mother rounds apace.

* Tennyson

So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.

(obsolete) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.

* Milton

They nightly rounding walk.

(obsolete) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

(Tennyson)

Derived terms

* round off * round out * round up * round down

Etymology 2

From (etyl) rounen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)

(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.

(Shakespeare)

(Holland)

* Calderwood

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)

(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.

(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.

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street

English

(wikipedia street)

Alternative forms

* streete

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Walk down the street .

A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.

(slang) Street talk or slang.

* 2008 , Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2 , Focus Features

Toaster is street for guns.

(figuratively) A great distance.

He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]

England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street .

(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug

I got some pot cheap on the street .

Usage notes

In the generical sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably with road, avenue, and other similar terms. In the English language, in its narrow usage street specifically means a paved route within a settlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while a road is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notably Manhattan, New York City) streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets. In the sense of "a road", the prepositions in and on have distinct meanings when used with street, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the road without looking", "I met her when walking on the road"). By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* streetcar * streetcorner * streeted * streetfighter * streetlamp * streetlife * streetlight * streetscape * streetseller * streetwalker * streetward * streetwear * streetwise * streety * back street * civvy street * easy street * from the streets * high street * man on the street * one-way street * side street * street address * street art * street corner, * street cred, street credibility * street drug * street elbow * street food * street furniture * street hockey * street map * street market * street name * street racing * street smarts * street sweeper * street team * street urchin * take to the streets * two-way street * word on the street * Bay Street * Downing Street * Fleet Street * Harley Street * Lombard Street * Main Street * Queer Street * Threadneedle Street * Wall Street

Adjective

(en adjective)

(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

* 2003 , Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin

Eric had to admit that she looked street —upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

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