Around
[ə'raʊnd]
Definition
(adv.) in circumference; 'the trunk is ten feet around'; 'the pond is two miles around'.
(adv.) by a circular or circuitous route; 'He came all the way around the base'; 'the road goes around the pond'.
(adv.) in a circle or circular motion; 'The wheels are spinning around'.
(adv.) to a particular destination either specified or understood; 'she came around to see me'; 'I invited them around for supper'.
Inputed by Evelyn--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.
(adv.) In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.
(adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place.
(prep.) On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.
(prep.) From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Round, on every side, on all sides, in a circle, right and left.
prep. [1]. About, round, encircling, encompassing, surrounding, on every side of.[2]. All over, in all parts of.
Checker: Roderick
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:About, environing, encircling
ANT:Within, amid, among
Typist: Ruth
Definition
prep. on all sides of: (Amer.) round about.—adv. on every side: in a circle: (Amer.) round all about
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Examples
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She started to look around. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had a red-and-black handkerchief around his neck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And she looked around as if longing to tell him so. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- His mouth, around which many a dimple played, was large enough to add to that manliness of expression, for which he was so celebrated. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise, and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When the notes were due, a messenger came around from the bank with the note and a protest pinned to it for $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No one can carry around with him a museum of all the things whose properties will assist the conduct of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It has been around twice now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He ran his thumbnail around the edge of the box and, opening the lid, handed them to Pablo who took half a dozen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- How they must have tugged at the pitiless fetters as the fierce fires surged around them! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The priest was standing, and those who were left were kneeling in a half circle around him and they were all praying. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I turned and rode around the block the other way, so as to meet the head of the column. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The room was darkening to his sight; the world was narrowing around him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Let them look abroad and contemplate the scenes which were enacting around them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You could remember the men you knew who died in the fighting around Pozoblanco; but it was a joke at Gaylord's. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Before a lobster is cooked he is green, that being the color of the rocks around which he lives on the bottom of the ocean. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He trembled pitifully as the undertaker's man was arranging his crape draperies around him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This was done by sending a large force around our right, by the way of Dallas, to reach the rear of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Nothing more they found, and it was a thoroughly awed and frightened group of savages which huddled around their king a few moments later. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As there was no limit to the distance that electricity would travel there seemed no reason why these dots and dashes, or sparks and spaces, should not be sent all around the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The tall English driver came around and looked in, I'll take it very easily, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The others crowded around him, and even two who had hold of Gurth relaxed their grasp while they stretched their necks to see the issue of the search. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But look around you at this place. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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