I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
30 mile/360 kilometre/2 hour etc round trip
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A coachload of supporters made the 700-mile round trip to South Devon.
a round number (= a number ending in zero )
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A hundred is a nice round number.
a round of golf (= a complete game of golf )
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He invited me to join him for a round of golf.
a round of negotiations (= one part of a series of negotiations )
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the next round of negotiations on trade barriers
a round of redundancies (= one set of redundancies in a series )
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The industry has announced a new round of redundancies.
a round of talks (= a series of talks that is part of a longer process )
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A third round of talks was held in May.
a round trip (= a journey to a place and back again )
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His wife makes a hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week.
call in/round for a chat
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Are you free later if I call in for a chat?
come around/round the bend
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Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
drive sb up the wall/round the bend/out of their mind spoken informal (= make someone feel very annoyed )
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That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
edge your way into/round/through etc sth
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Christine edged her way round the back of the house.
endless round of
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an endless round of boring meetings
enough to go round (= enough of something for everyone to have some )
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Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
go round/around
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Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
in round figures (= to the nearest 10, 20, 100 etc )
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In round figures, about 20 million people emigrated from Europe during that period.
milk round
paper round
round a corner (= come around it )
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A tall good-looking man rounded the corner.
round here
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There are no good pubs round here .
round of applause (= a short period of applause )
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She got a round of applause when she finished.
round robin
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a round robin tournament
round the bend
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He rounded the bend much too fast.
round/out the back British English (= behind a house or building )
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Have you looked round the back?
round/oval/square
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Her face was round and jolly.
round/square etc in shape
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The dining room was square in shape.
round/wide
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The children gazed at the screen, their eyes wide with excitement.
slog your way through/round etc sth
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He started to slog his way up the hill.
the opposite way round
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Bob was quicker than Ed? It’s usually the opposite way round .
top round
working round the clock (= working day and night without stopping )
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Forty police officers are working round the clock to find Murray’s killer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(just) around/round the corner
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Around the corner , their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
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I rounded the corner , then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner .
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She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
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She peered round the corner of the house.
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She was around the corner , talking to Hoffmann.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
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There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a clip round the ear/earhole
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You might get a clip round the ear.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
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This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
a square peg in a round hole
all (the) year round
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Centrally heated and open all year round.
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Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
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It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
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Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
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Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
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Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
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We have witches all year round.
all round
be the wrong way round/around
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Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
be/go round the bend
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But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
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I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
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If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend .
big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc
bring the conversation around/round to sth
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With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
clip sb round the ear/earhole
drive sb round the bend
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Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend .
get round sb
get round sth
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
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A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
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But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
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Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts , large and in charge.
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Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
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It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts .
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Llewelyn's well served in these parts , it seems.
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Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts .
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There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts .
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Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
look around/round (sth)
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Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
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Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
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He looks around him at everybody watching.
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
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In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
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My heart sank as I looked around.
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Two old ladies look round in my direction.
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When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
pale-faced/round-faced etc
round the twist
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You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
see around/round sth
talk around/round sth
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Get people talking round a subject.
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He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
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In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
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It was the talk around the base.
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Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
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We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
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We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
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Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the milk round
the other way around/round
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It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
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It only works the other way round.
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Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
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Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
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Right now, that is the other way around.
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The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
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What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
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A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
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Or was it the other way round?
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See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
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She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
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Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
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They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
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When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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She was young, with a round face and brown curly hair.
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Nina had a round face , pale skin and short-cut hair.
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A face rushed up to meet him, clear and lifelike; he stared into the sweet round face of his long-dead wife.
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His round face seems small above his wide shoulders.
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Their faces slipped through her mind, round faces and long faces, thin, fat, smiling, sombre.
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Ted was the shortest with a very round face .
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With lots of luck I came face to face with a round face man in uniform.
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He had a round face made jovial by bright, almost boyish eyes and eyebrows ridiculously small for a man his size.
figure
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The relief showed instantly on their faces as the small round figure of their uncle filled the doorway.
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Estimates for the delay, given in round figures , ranged from two to eight hours.
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As the end of the decade approached, natural growth was carrying this towards a round figure of 50 million.
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Twenty is a nice, round figure .
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The LibDems, in round figures , had 45 percent, Conservatives 25 percent and Labour 17.
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That's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots - say ten miles in round figures .
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Never ask for a big round figure .
head
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The baby ones are as pretty and appealing as kittens with their little round heads .
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She wore her mixed gray Afro closely cut to the shape of her round head .
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Paulette thought the Prince disgustingly ugly: he was obnoxiously thin, with a bulbous round head on a ridiculously long neck.
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There would be no need for the round head and the round socket.
neck
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Design: round neck , long sleeve top and long johns, women's and men's designs available.
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With its pretty round neck , softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail, it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers.
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A simple round neck style with wrist length sleeves it makes the perfect foil for a favourite scarf or piece of jewellery.
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A Crêpe-de-chine T-Top blouse with cap sleeves and a round neck bound in self cloth.
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For a round neck , join one shoulder seam before estimating.
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For a round neck , the band can be single or double thickness but a V-neck band can only be single thickness.
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She had tried to soften the effect of long sleeves and a high round neck with a pair of pearl stud earrings.
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Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck.
robin
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Mr. Speaker: I think that the Hon. Member might start the round robin .
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In a three-pair round robin tournament they finished ahead of Simon Jacob and Anthony Chapman.
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Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4, 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase.
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Cricket this year switches to an eight-aside round robin for under-12 teams, run over two days.
table
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On a small round table , polished for him by Dadda, was a bust of Tace.
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A round table was covered with a white linen cloth and glistening silverware.
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There was a paperback on the round table to the right of her chair.
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They sat at a round table covered with a lace cloth.
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A round table covered in cracked oilcloth stood bare of bowls, jugs, cups and saucers.
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They dream of a great castle called Camelot and a round table that could seat 150 knights.
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In the middle of the room was a round table covered with oilcloth, and four high-backed carved chairs set around it.
trip
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Duncan charged £5-a-head for the 200-mile round trip to the new brewery.
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The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip .
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Distributors would travel perhaps a 1,500-kilometre round trip to collect stocks of vehicle accessories.
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Radio signals from Laurel to Mathilde and back will need 36 minutes to make the round trip .
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The Rocky Mountaineer will continue to make one round trip a week in summer from Vancouver to Calgary.
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However, it has scheduled three extra round trips between Phoenix and Las Vegas on Sunday, to accommodate people staying there.
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This is a round trip of some 16 miles and on Skye counts as one of the easiest expeditions.
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The round trip of some twelve miles is one of the finest of mountain expeditions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(just) around/round the corner
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Around the corner , their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
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I rounded the corner , then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner .
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She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
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She peered round the corner of the house.
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She was around the corner , talking to Hoffmann.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
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There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a clip round the ear/earhole
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You might get a clip round the ear.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
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This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
all (the) year round
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Centrally heated and open all year round.
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Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
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It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
▪
Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
▪
Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
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Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
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We have witches all year round.
all round
be/go round the bend
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But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
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I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
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If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend .
big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc
bring the conversation around/round to sth
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With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
clip sb round the ear/earhole
drive sb round the bend
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Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend .
get round sb
get round sth
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
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A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
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But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
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Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts , large and in charge.
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Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
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It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts .
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Llewelyn's well served in these parts , it seems.
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Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts .
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There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts .
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Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
look around/round (sth)
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Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
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Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
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He looks around him at everybody watching.
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
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In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
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My heart sank as I looked around.
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Two old ladies look round in my direction.
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When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
pale-faced/round-faced etc
round the twist
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You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
see around/round sth
talk around/round sth
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Get people talking round a subject.
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He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
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In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
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It was the talk around the base.
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Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
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We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
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We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
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Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the milk round
the other way around/round
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It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
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It only works the other way round.
▪
Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
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Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
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Right now, that is the other way around.
▪
The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
▪
What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
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A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
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Or was it the other way round?
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See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
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She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
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Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
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They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
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When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a short round man
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European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.
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He wore round glasses with wire rims.
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His bald round head reminded her of Sam.
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His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.
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In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.
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It probably costs more, but $200 is a nice round number.
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She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
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The moon was perfectly round that night.
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The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.
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Violet stared at him with her huge round eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His large round eyes probed Miguel that first time, as if he could look inside with ease.
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It's sunglasses all round as our richly-coiffed Tory front benchers try to fight eye-strain caused by their chrome-domed pinko opponents.
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Some women ground corn or wheat on huge round stones.
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The round dining table is dark rosewood with a matching set of chairs.
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The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
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He said post-operative checks were also carried out as a matter of routine on patients during daily morning ward rounds .
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After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
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For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster.
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It seems J.F. Cooper played his daily rounds with only five clubs!
early
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If no list is submitted, then any list submitted in earlier rounds will be deemed still to apply.
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In earlier rounds there were two notable casualties.
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Canoe-Kayak: The sprint competition begins, and the scene shifts to Lake Lanier for early rounds in six classes.
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It is the way Biggs fights and he can be expected to steal the early rounds .
endless
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It saves me getting involved in all that endless round of relatives.
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People who do so condemn themselves to an endless round of debate over something they can never achieve.
final
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The final round of judging is next month.
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While there is a certain grubby vitality to the show, it wears thin long before the final round of moralizing.
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The back nine of that final round would again decide.
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It was also the day of the final round of the Masters.
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Toney made the last day and the final two rounds , and I was on my way.
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Wright flew back to cover the final round of the tourney.
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Phil Mickelson's final-round 66 set a target of 14 under par.
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The final round was a wild one, and not just from the leaders' standpoint.
fresh
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De Klerk begins fresh round of discussions.
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International concern was reflected in a fresh round of criticism.
late
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Newslines Newspaper accounts of the latest national round of university funding had welcome news for Bristol.
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In the latest round of polls, Peres holds a 5 percentage point lead over Netanyahu.
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Ten minutes later round went the tip again but this time I was into something bigger.
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He talked with Hardaway, delivered the latest in a round of lectures designed to soothe his client.
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Voice over There's concern the programme could have prompted the latest round of violence.
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Sir Peter was responding to the latest round of monopoly accusations.
new
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Officially there is widespread backing for a new round .
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The announcement of her decisions in mid-June promises a new round of controversy.
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Last month, Total Entertainment completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $ 12 million.
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She and other attorneys predicted a new round of lawsuits for trademark infringement.
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Next came the inaugural luncheon and a new round of insincere bipartisan pieties.
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A new computing approach: a whole new round of investment?
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That has prompted top Dole advisers here to urge a new round of much tougher ads attacking Forbes.
preliminary
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We will however be publishing a special feature on the preliminary and first rounds , carrying score-cards and photographs wherever possible.
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Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists.
usual
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One evening in late November, he did his usual round of the buildings to check his animals before going to bed.
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Steve Francis got his usual round of jeers in the city he spurned.
■ VERB
begin
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De Klerk begins fresh round of discussions.
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The artillery began firing beehive rounds , which I had never seen before at minimum elevation.
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A decision will take another week, after Scalfaro begins a third round of meetings with political leaders.
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From almost the first day, she and her husband had begun the round of public hospitals and clinics.
complete
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After completing three rounds of the Barkhor we left to return to the nunnery separately.
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Last month, Total Entertainment completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $ 12 million.
fire
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Striding boldly over I fired a sharp round of insults.
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One of the tanks was firing beehive rounds point-blank.
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Gunmen fired more than 100 rounds into his black Chevrolet Suburban, killing him instantly.
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Just prior to our assault, they had fired 6, 000 rounds of artillery and bombed it all morning.
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The artillery began firing beehive rounds , which I had never seen before at minimum elevation.
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Then Charlie started firing mortar rounds .
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During an ambush we sprung near Hoc Mon, I remember firing 25 to 30 rounds as fast as I could.
make
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He made rounds throughout the night, checking on the oxen and buffaloes tethered in the field.
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The Paladins are practically regulars here in the Old Pueblo, making their round of Tucson stages on an almost quarterly basis.
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And when our constable makes the rounds , interviewing her daughter's friends, what do they do?
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It was what modern people here said about themselves, a word that was making the rounds .
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He makes the rounds of all the schools each year and pitches the fourth-and fifth-graders.
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One example was Pedro. l first met Pedro while I was making rounds in the hospital in 1960.
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These are three big lies that nutritionists and obesity experts say are making the rounds this season.
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Louis Blues first made the rounds .
play
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The tournament was played over three rounds as a result of local government elections and the imposition of travel restrictions.
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If his vision clears right away, Miller could be playing in the first round of the playoffs.
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He played in all four rounds and was still able to take the weekend off.
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He's played many good rounds and usually has one bad one per tournament.
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Any opponent we play in the first round is going to be tough.
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The full hand was as shown below: - Note what happens if declarer plays 2 rounds of trumps before proceeding.
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They eat, play sixteen rounds , feast again, then tell stories.
win
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He won the third round of the Isle of Man Archery League long metric three.
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It was the first time Gibson had won a round this year.
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Philip Jackson won the second round of the club's float only league at Bond's Bridge.
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Now Bush has regained his position as frontrunner by winning the first unofficial rounds of the campaign.
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Then, in 1994, Clinton won a round when the Senate approved Deval Patrick without much controversy.
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The first team to guess correctly wins the round .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a millstone round/around sb's neck
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This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
a square peg in a round hole
all (the) year round
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Centrally heated and open all year round.
▪
Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
▪
It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
▪
Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
▪
Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
▪
Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
▪
We have witches all year round.
all round
be the wrong way round/around
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Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
bring the conversation around/round to sth
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With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
clip sb round the ear/earhole
get round sb
get round sth
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
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A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
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But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
▪
Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts , large and in charge.
▪
Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
▪
It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts .
▪
Llewelyn's well served in these parts , it seems.
▪
Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts .
▪
There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts .
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Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
look around/round (sth)
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Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
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Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
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He looks around him at everybody watching.
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
▪
In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
▪
My heart sank as I looked around.
▪
Two old ladies look round in my direction.
▪
When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
see around/round sth
talk around/round sth
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Get people talking round a subject.
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He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
▪
In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
▪
It was the talk around the base.
▪
Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
▪
We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
▪
We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
▪
Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the milk round
the other way around/round
▪
It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
▪
It only works the other way round.
▪
Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
▪
Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
▪
Right now, that is the other way around.
▪
The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
▪
What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
▪
A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
▪
Or was it the other way round?
▪
See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
▪
She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
▪
Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
▪
They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
▪
When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cut the carrots into half-inch rounds.
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Hamed won the fight in the seventh round .
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I'll buy the next round of beers.
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More than 30 rounds were fired at the guards.
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Purdue lost to Kansas State in the third round .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it isn't; it's the good rounds that bring you back.
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Cunningly simple: two contestants, three rounds and a panel of three celebrity judges.
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Last week in New York, he stopped respectable light heavyweight Merqui Sosa in only two rounds.
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The first four rounds are designed to produce 32 prize-winning county champions, who will then go forward to the national rounds.
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The heroes of the last round were perhaps Paul Clarkson and John Simpkins, the goalkeeper.
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The second round of voting is scheduled for May 5.
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To serve, place sauteed bread rounds on warm plates and arrange birds on top.
IV. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bend
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But there he was when I rounded a bend , holding a treasure he landed on this hunt.
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A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry.
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As Clark rounded a bend in the trail, he saw the wheelchair.
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As if summoned by that anger, Tom Carey rounded a bend in the path, rod in hand.
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As I rounded the final bend I came face to face with the water jump.
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Then they rounded the bend by the Bahan shrine and dropped down into the darkness of the valley.
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He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.
corner
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It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she hadn't thanked him for walking her home.
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But the tour revealed that the building has retained many treasures from its past: Its cathedral ceilings still have rounded corners .
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As they rounded the last corner the leaders had the main field breathing down their necks.
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Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
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She rounded a corner quickly; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated.
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He knew it would be gone before he rounded the corner .
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Even nails stopped in his stride as they rounded the corner by the cinema queue.
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The race for the nomination has rounded a corner .
curve
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The blush rounded the curve of her bosom, red hot and rising.
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The arms of the tee shirt barely rounded the curve of his shoulders, the hem hung an inch above his navel.
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But as they descended, rounding the curve beneath the beautiful arched window, the hall below them revealed itself.
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They rounded curve after curve in the darkness.
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He saw the spot of bright buttercup colour as he rounded the last curve before the crossroads.
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I rounded the curve , looking for a place to pull in.
day
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While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip, the children would round off the day with sports.
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To round off his day of despair Button was forced to retire with an exhaust failure six laps from home.
edge
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Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.
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The prongs had rounded edges that fit into finely finished grooves.
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Although he sometimes rounded the rough edges off the truth, he remained an amusing raconteur and lively company.
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Clinton is a lifelong politician with a gift for speaking with rounded edges designed to keep people happy and options open.
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As they rounded the edge of the building, he could see that behind the house was a vast garden.
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The wood is a brown color a little deeper than milk chocolate, smooth with rounded edges for aerodynamics.
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When sanding take care not to round the sharp edges .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(just) around/round the corner
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Around the corner , their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
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I rounded the corner , then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner .
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She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
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She peered round the corner of the house.
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She was around the corner , talking to Hoffmann.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
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There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a clip round the ear/earhole
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You might get a clip round the ear.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
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This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
a square peg in a round hole
all (the) year round
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Centrally heated and open all year round.
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Hours 4 1/2 hours a week, 45 hours total. * Intensive courses: Duration 2-4 weeks, all year round.
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It is warm all year round, with warm summers, mild winters and moderate rainfall.
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Most importantly, the Conquistadores use the proceeds from the tournament to help fund local youth sports all year round.
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Seasons: The crag faces west, is sited just above the sea and climbing is generally possible all year round.
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Soon, the pests were everywhere, all year round.
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We have witches all year round.
all round
be the wrong way round/around
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Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
be/go round the bend
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But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
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I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
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If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend .
big-bottomed/round-bottomed etc
drive sb round the bend
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Anyway, he drives Kate round the bend .
have a (good) root round
have a sniff around/round
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A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
in/round these parts
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But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
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Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts , large and in charge.
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Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
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It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts .
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Llewelyn's well served in these parts , it seems.
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Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts .
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There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts .
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Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
pale-faced/round-faced etc
round the twist
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You'd think I was round the twist if I told you.
the milk round
the other way around/round
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It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
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It only works the other way round.
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Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
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Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
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Right now, that is the other way around.
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The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
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What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
way around/round/up
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A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
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Or was it the other way round?
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See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
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She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
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Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
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They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
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When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As I rounded the corner, I could see that the house was on fire.
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The edges of the counter have been rounded to make them safer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.
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All that slim, rounded, unclothed flesh I'd seen - from the back - had not been girl flesh.
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Dear Jamie, Please remember to round your letters and curl your tails.
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Drop by rounded teaspoons on to a greased non-stick cookie sheet.
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He was rounded up about a week later, having stolen four more vehicles.
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The race for the nomination has rounded a corner.
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The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
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Their huts were short tepees protected by tree branches or rounded huts covered with animal skins.