Thick vs Round - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between thick and round

is that thick is relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension while round is (label) shape.

As adverbs the difference between thick and round

is that thick is in a thick manner while round is .

As nouns the difference between thick and round

is that thick is the thickest, or most active or intense, part of something while 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 verbs the difference between thick and round

As a preposition round is

alternative form of around.

thick

English

Adjective

(er)

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

Heavy in build; thickset.

* 2007 , James T. Knight, Queen of the Hustle

As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.

Densely crowded or packed.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

Having a viscous consistency.

Abounding in number.

Impenetrable to sight.

Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.

(informal) Stupid.

(informal) Friendly or intimate.

* T. Hughes

We have been thick ever since.

Deep, intense, or profound.

* Shakespeare

thick sleep

Synonyms

* (relatively great in extent from one surface to another) broad * (measuring a certain number of units in this dimension) * (heavy in build) chunky, solid, stocky, thickset * (densely crowded or packed) crowded, dense, packed * (having a viscous consistency) glutinous, viscous * (abounding in number) overflowing, swarming, teeming * (impenetrable to sight) dense, opaque, solid * (sense) unclear * dense, dumb (informal), stupid, thick as pigshit (taboo slang), thick as two short planks (slang) * (sense) chummy (qualifier), close, close-knit, friendly, pally (informal), intimate, tight-knit * great, extreme * See also

Antonyms

* (relatively great in extent from one surface to another) slim, thin * (heavy in build) slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin * (densely crowded or packed) sparse * (having a viscous consistency) free-flowing, runny * (abounding in number) * (impenetrable to sight) thin, transparent * (sense) clear, lucid * brainy (informal), intelligent, smart * (sense) unacquainted

Derived terms

* blood is thicker than water * thick and thin * thick as a brick * thick as a plank * thick as thieves * thick as two short planks * thicket * thickhead * thickish * thickly * thicko * thickness * thickset * thick-skinned * thick-un * thicky

Adverb

(er)

In a thick manner.

Snow lay thick on the ground.

Thickly.

Bread should be sliced thick to make toast.

Frequently; in great numbers.

The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Noun

(-)

The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

It was mayhem in the thick of battle.

* Dryden

He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.

A thicket.

* Drayton

gloomy thicks

* Spenser

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.

A stupid person; a fool.

* 2014 , Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All (page 100)

If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks .

Derived terms

* in the thick of * through thick and thin

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To thicken.

The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. — Coleridge.

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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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