Rounding
of Round
Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
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Rounding Quotations
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Lee Grant
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis
Rounding Translations
rounding in French is arrondissant
rounding in German is rundend, Runden (Zahl), Abrundung {f}
rounding in Spanish is redondeo
rounding in Swedish is avrundning
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