In the round

Definition

round /raƱnd/ adj ၁။ ဝိုင္းေသာ (သို႔) လံုးေသာ။ a round mirror/window/table ❍ a small round stone ❍ People used to think the world was flat instead of round. ၂။ မိုေဖာင္းေသာ။ ဝကစ္ေသာ။ တုတ္ေသာ။ round cheeks ❍ small, round hands. ၃။ အျပည့္။ လံုလံုေလာက္ေလာက္ရိွေသာ။ a round dozen (ie not less than twelve) ❍ a round (ie considerable) sum of money. adv part ( esp Brit ) (also esp US around ) ၁။ ဝိုင္းပတ္လ်က္။ ခ်ာခ်ာ၊ ခ်ာလပတ္ (လည္သည္)။ Everybody joins hands and dances round. ❍ How do you make the wheels go round? ❍ children spinning round and round ❍ ( fig ) The thought kept going round and round in her head. ၂။ တစ္ပတ္ျပည့္ေအာင္။ တစ္ပတ္ေက်ာ့။ How long does it take the minute hand of the clock to go round once? ❍ Spring will soon come round again. ၃။ ပတ္လည္။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္။ a young tree measuring only 18 inches round ❍ They've built a high fence all round to keep intruders out. ၄။ (က) ဝိုင္း(အံုသည္)။ A large crowd had gathered round to watch. (ခ) ဝိုင္း (ဖြဲ႕သည္၊ အံုသည္)။ People stood round waiting for something to happen. ၅။ ေနာက္ျပန္(လွည့္သည္)။ သမင္လည္ျပန္(ၾကည့္သည္)။ ျပန္(လွည့္သည္)။ turn the car round and drive back again ❍ She looked/turned/swung round at the sound of his voice. ၆။ ပတ္၍။ We walked round to the back of the house. ၇။ ပတ္၍။ It's quickest to walk across the field—going round by road takes much longer. ❍ The road's blocked—you'll have to drive round. ၈။ လွည့္ပတ္ (ေရႊ႕သည္၊ သြားသည္)။ move all the furniture round ❍ go round interviewing people about local traditions. ၉။ ( infml ) (တစ္ေနရာရာ) ဆီသို႔၊ ဆီမွ။ (ဒီ)ကို။ go round to the local shop ❍ I'll be round in an hour. ❍ We've invited the Frasers round this evening. ၁၀။ ႏွံ႔ေအာင္ (ကမ္းသည္၊ ျဖန္႔သည္)။ Pass the biscuits round. ❍ The news was quickly passed round. ❍ Have we enough cups to go round? n ၁။ (က) ပံုမွန္လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ (သို႔) အလွည့္က် လူေစ့တက္ေစ့။ the daily round of school life ❍ Her life is one long round of meetings/parties. ❍ We did/went the rounds of (ie visited in turn) our relations at Christmas. (ခ) ပံုမွန္ခရီးတစ္ပတ္။ a postman's/milkman's round ❍ doctors on their rounds (ie visiting their patients) ❍ The health and safety officer is making his rounds/his usual round (ie of inspection). See also MILK ROUND ၂။ အခ်ီ။ အလွည့္။ the next round of the peace talks ❍ a new round of pay bargaining. ၃။ (sport) (က) အဆင့္။ အခ်ီ။ a qualifying round ❍ The fight only lasted five rounds. ❍ Norwich were knocked out in the third round of the Cup. (ခ) ကြင္းတစ္ပတ္။ play a round (ie 18 holes) of golf. ❍ She jumped a clear round (ie in SHOWJUMPING). ၄။ တစ္ခြက္စီ လူေစ့တက္ေစ့တစ္လွည့္။ buy a round ❍ It's my round (ie my turn to pay for the next set of drinks). ၅။ (က) (ေပါင္မုန္႔) တစ္ခ်ပ္။ a round of toast. (ခ) (အသားညႇပ္ေပါင္မုန္႔ ႏွစ္ခ်ပ္) တစ္စံု။ two rounds of cheese and tomato and one of beef. ၆။ အဝိုင္း။ Cut the pastry into small rounds, one for each pie. ၇။ (က) ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ ပစ္သည့္အခ်က္။ They fired several rounds at us. (ခ) က်ည္ဆန္တစ္ေတာင့္။ We've only three rounds of ammunition left. ၈။ လက္ခုပ္ဩဘာသံ။ She got a big round of applause for her performance. ၉။ အဆိုေတာ္မ်ား အလွည့္က်ထပ္ေက်ာ့၍ ဆိုရေသာ ေတးမ်ဳိး။ ( esp Brit ) (also esp US around ) prep ၁။ ပတ္၍။ ပတ္ကာ။ sail round the world ❍ The earth moves round the sun. ၂။ ပတ္၍။ ျဖတ္လိုက္လွ်င္။ walk round the car ❍ There's a petrol station round the next bend. ၃။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္တြင္။ ပတ္၍။ a scarf round his neck ❍ sitting round the table. ၄။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္။ ပတ္၍။ look round the room ❍ There were soldiers positioned all round the town. v ၁။ ဝိုင္းသည္။ လံုးသည္။ round the lips (eg when making the sound /u:/) ❍ stones rounded by the action of water. ၂။ ပတ္သည္။ We rounded the corner/bend at high speed. ❏ do/go the round(s) (of sth) [ IDM ] ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔သည္။ The rumour quickly went the rounds (of the village). ❏ in the round [ IDM ] ၁။ ပတ္ပတ္လည္နီးပါး ႐ႈစားႏိုင္ေသာ (ဇာတ္ခံု)။ ၂။ ႐ုပ္လံုး (ပန္းပု)။ His work should be seen in the round. ❏ in round figures/numbers [ IDM ] အနီးဆံုး ဆယ္၊ ရာ၊ ေထာင္ စသည့္ဂဏန္း။ In round figures, there are about 3000 students taking the course. ❏ round about [ IDM ] ၁။ အနီးဝန္းက်င္။ the countryside/villages round about. ၂။ ခန္႔။ ေလာက္။ We're leaving round about midday. ❍ A new roof will cost round about £3000. ❏ rounded adj ၁။ လံုးေခ်ာေနေသာ။ ဝိုင္းေသာ။ ျပည့္ၿဖိဳးေသာ။ rounded hills ❍ a knife with a rounded end ❍ a well rounded figure. ၂။ ( approv ) နက္နဲသိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ ရင့္မွည့္ ေသာ။ ေစ့စံုမွ်တေသာ။ wine with a smooth rounded flavour ❍ The book provides a rounded picture of his early life. ❏ round-eyed adj မ်က္လံုးအဝိုင္းသား။ stare round-eyed with terror/wonder. ❏ roundish adj ခပ္ဝိုင္းဝိုင္း။ ❏ roundly adv ပ်စ္ပ်စ္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္။ ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္။ be roundly condemned/criticized/defeated ❍ ‘It wouldn't hurt you to work a bit harder,’ she said roundly. roundness n [U] ❏ round sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ)အဆံုး သတ္သည္။ round off a meal with a good brandy ❍ He rounded off his political career by becoming Minister of Trade and Industry. ၂။ အေခ်ာသပ္သည္။ အနားလံုးသည္။ She rounded off the corners of the table with sandpaper. ❏ round on sb [ PHRV ] လွည့္ခြပ္သည္။ She was amazed when he rounded on her and called her a liar. ❏ round robin n ၁။ ဝိုင္းလက္မွတ္ထိုးထားေသာစာ။ ၂။ ( sport esp US ) ပတ္လည္ေတြ႕ဆံုယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ a round-robin match/tournament. ❏ round-shouldered adj ( derog ) ပခံုးေလွ်ာေသာ။ လက္ျပင္ ကုန္းေသာ။ Sit up straight— you're getting round-shouldered! ❏ round-table adj ဒူးတိုက္ (ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ)။ round-table discussions/talks ❍ a round-table agreement between management and union. ❏ round trip n (က) ( Brit ) ခရီးတစ္ပတ္။ (ခ) ( US ) = return n ၂: a round-trip ticket. ❏ round sb/sth up [ PHRV ] စုသည္။ (ႏြားစသည္) ေကာက္သည္။ cowboys rounding up cattle ❍ The guide rounded us up and led us back to the coach. ❏ round sth up/down [ PHRV ] အနီးဆံုးကိန္းျပည့္ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ လံုးလိုက္သည္။ It came to £3.97, rounded up to £4. ❏ round-up n (usu sing ) ၁။ စု႐ံုးျခင္း။ a round-up of suspects/stray cattle. ၂။ ေပါင္း႐ံုးျခင္း။ အက်ဥ္းခ်ံဳးျခင္း။ a news round-up.

Examples

1. The children were dancing round in a circle.
2. [round and round] : The bird flew round and round the room
3. unable to escape.
4. He wandered round the town
5. looking in shop windows.
6. That dog used to follow me round everywhere.
7. There have been lots of stories going round
8. but I don’t believe any of them.
9. Katharine spun round to face him.
10. The car stopped
11. turned round
12. and came back towards us.
13. I heard a voice behind me and looked round.
14. A number 26 bus was just coming round the corner into Station Road.
15. He walked round to the back of the building.
16. [round by] : We can go round by the shops on our way home and buy something for supper.
17. [all round] : We had to go all round the town to get here.
18. Why don’t you invite him round for dinner?
19. I was just going round to see Lindsey about babysitting.
20. He tied one end of the rope round his waist.
21. There was a high brick wall round the garden.
22. The children crowded round to see what was happening.
23. Books and papers were scattered round the room.
24. [all round] : All round the country factories were closing.
25. She loved the countryside round Oxford.
26. [round here] : Do you live round here?
27. I’m not sure where he is
28. but he may be round at Patrick’s.
29. We’ll be round at nine o’clock in the morning.
30. She looked round the room for Leo
31. but he was nowhere to be seen.
32. Someone’s been rummaging round in my office.
33. I’ve phoned round the local pubs and restaurants – they’re all fully booked.
34. It’s a good idea to shop round and compare prices.
35. They spend all their time sitting round drinking coffee.
36. Why don’t you find yourself something to do instead of just hanging round?