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roundabout

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Roundabout ( Robo ) family of proteins are single-pass transmembrane receptors that are highly conserved across many branches of the animal kingdom, from C. elegans to humans. They were first discovered in Drosophila , through a mutant screen for genes ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"by a circuitous route," mid-14c., from round (adv.) + about . As an adjective from c.1600. Noun sense of "traffic circle" is attested from 1927.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roundabout \Round"a*bout`\, n. A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a carousel. [British] --Smart. A dance performed in a circle. --Goldsmith. A short, close jacket worn by boys, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary. 2 Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. n. 1 (context chiefly UK New Zealand and Australia English) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island 2 (context chiefly British ...

Usage examples of roundabout.

While I am skinning and brittling this fine doe for our meal, you go and thresh the bushes and grasses roundabout for every kind of seed you can collect.

They disappeared behind the manuka hedge, taking the roundabout path to the cabins.

He is plaguily roundabout in His plans for serving us, nor have I found life so sweet that I am minded to thank Him so heartily for what He has done for me.

This is a kind of roundabout course from Evansville to Cincy, but I wanted to try around here to see if I could get any reaction to the name Lon Staffold, get a little ammunition to take to Cincy with me.

She led the children through a maze of small streets by a roundabout way to the Cathedral, and there they were met at the entrance by the Verger, who gazed at them with sad surprise.

With these qualifications, he served as Groom of the Bedchamber and Master of Buckhounds and in other ornamental court posts until the political roundabout dropped him in the Presidency of the Board of Trade, where his tenure at the time of the founding of Nova Scotia caused its capital to be named for him.

Nova Caledon, all of them, making the lengthy, roundabout voyage that was inevitable in this poorly serviced sector of the Galaxy.

The Volunteer pub on the Barking and Dagenham roundabout was where they should be dealing, it was always kicking.

At one point, the spider eschewed a slower, more roundabout passage by securing a dragline and dropping them down a thirty-foot drop with a stomach-lurching motion.

As Emul jittered out his roundabout proposal, various-sized little bumps of flickercladding kept moving up and down his body, creating the illusion of cubes moving on intricate systems of hinges.

The fog, you know, presses hi at the lobes of the ear and roundabout the forebrain and has a direct effect on sound and vision.

Meanwhile the children were climbing up by a far and roundabout way, for Peter knew many spots where all kinds of good food, in the shape of shrubs and plants, grew for his goats, and he was in the habit of leading his flock aside from the beaten track.

Stuck in slow traffic by the Westgate roundabout, Tracy saw the familiar figure of Longton standing by the side of the road trying to redirect the traffic so as to minimise the chaos.

As none of the four had ever been to the Meadows Center before, Charley had the driver go slowly and take a roundabout route so that John Tinker could point out the various places of interest.

After a good hour of this roundabout traveling, Muckamuck Charlie halted at the foot of a rounded, thickly timbered hill.