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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rounded
adjective
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▪ The largest and most buzzard-like harrier of the region, with broader, more rounded wings and less graceful flight.
▪ A more rounded performer than Fox, Lynagh is the best fly-half in the world.
▪ However, the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation.
▪ This method gives a more rounded surface, suitable for fondant icing but not for a more formal royal-iced cake.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her nails were perfectly rounded and painted with delicate pink nail-polish.
▪ The blocks have rounded edges that are safer for small children.
▪ The knife had a rounded wooden handle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Pinch one side of the dough until you have four pleats along the side and the dough is rounded and shell-like.
▪ Plate 4.3 shows a rounded exotic pebble in this deposit, with some men at the bottom to provide a scale.
▪ Rather than providing a rounded history of the revolution, historians with libertarian sympathies have concentrated on various specific themes in the revolution.
▪ They come in various shapes: erect, for instance, or conical, or rounded or with horizontal, spreading branches.
▪ X100's body will be rounded and sculpted, with soft, flowing lines and no hard edges or chrome highlights.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rounded

Rounded \Round"ed\, a. (Phonetics) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 11.

Rounded

Round \Round\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rounding.]

  1. To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.

    Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
    --Bacon.

    The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
    --Addison.

  2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass.

    The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.
    --Shak.

  3. To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.

    We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
    --Shak.

  4. To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.

  5. To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
    --Swift.

    To round in (Naut.) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.
    --Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]

Wiktionary
rounded

  1. 1 Made into a circle or sphere. 2 complete or balanced. 3 (context mathematics English) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value. 4 (context botany English) Ending in a broad arch. 5 (context linguistics of a vowel English) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; ''see'' rounded vowel. v

  2. (en-past of: round)

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WordNet
rounded

  1. adj. curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" [ant: angular]

  2. a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" [syn: fat]

Usage examples of "rounded".

Though a bit slender for his taste, she was nevertheless rounded in all the right places and had enough height to accommodate his enormous frame.

The top of Azul Island seemed to be rounded off at one height, and Steve could only think of it as a huge stone that had been dropped into the sea.

It was only ten minutes later when she rounded the headland behind which the barque had disappeared, and hauled to the westward, but in that short time the barque had set her royals and put an unexpected stretch of tumbling water between herself and her pursuer.

Almost instantly, Lazarus rounded the tunnel corner which led to the Baston Crypt.

With the aid of Hendel, the giant borderman began to roll the rounded battering ram sideways toward the wedge of Gnomes and the closed doors to the chamber beyond, the monstrous roller gathering speed and power with each revolution as it thundered toward the hapless guards.

About three feet long, blade broad on top and not tapering much to a bluntish point, it had a short, straight iron guard and a wide, flat-bottomed pommel rounded like a scoop of ice cream.

One side is flat, the other rounded, and it is brought to a bluntish edge.

On impulse, Brooke rounded the register and walked them to the entrance.

She turned to face him, unaware the bustier had slipped and one of her full rounded breasts was now exposed.

The residential court was enclosed by expensive-looking stucco maisonettes, what the Americans referred to as townhouses, all of them topped with roofs of rounded green tile.

The big moosie treed right across the room when it was hug time, his arms at his sides, his shoulders rounded.

Da Gama rounded the cape, provisioned from the store ship he had with him in Mossel bay, and then pushed on north.

Nathaniel cupped her hips, pressed his fingers into rounded flesh while he suckled, wide mouthed, both of them convulsing with the sweetness of it.

Possibly, Susie smiled in recollection, remembering the upturned bottoms, jnst possibly beause the spanker had the unswerving habit of gently palming their rounded rumps for several bewitching moments before the grimmer business in hand commenced.

Short men, rounded with smooth fat over muscle, and wearing parities and trousers of caribou hide trimmed with fisher fur, the parky hoods tucked back and away from their faces.