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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, sailors, etc.
A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
--Cowper.a traffic circle. [Chiefly British]
Roundabout \Round"a*bout`\, a.
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Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
We have taken a terrible roundabout road.
--Burke. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. ``Large, sound, roundabout sense.''
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 English) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed. 3 A fairground carousel. 4 A detour 5 A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
WordNet
adj. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" [syn: circuitous]
deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: devious, circuitous]
n. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary" [syn: traffic circle, circle, rotary]
large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride on [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig]
Wikipedia
"Roundabout" is a song by the English progressive rock band Yes. It is the first single released from their fourth studio album, Fragile (1971). "Roundabout" has become one of the best-known songs by Yes. The song was released as a shortened single with the track " Long Distance Runaround" in January 1972. It peaked at No. 13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the '' Cash Box Top 100.
Roundabout is the title of an acoustic instrumental album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in July 2006. The songs were compiled from sound check loops of guitar improvisations recorded before his concerts.
Roundabout' is an Australian television series which aired from 1967 (debuting as Morning Magazine) to 1971, when it was replaced with/became The Roy Hampson Show. It aired in Melbourne on what was then station ATV-0 (now ATV-10 and part of Network Ten).
It consisted of various segments and was a daytime talk show for women. Hosts of the series included Katrina Pye and Roy Hampson.
It evolved out of an earlier series called Chit-Chat.
A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.
So-called "modern" roundabouts require entering traffic to give way to traffic already in the circle and optimally observe various design rules to increase safety. Compared to stop signs, traffic signals, and earlier forms of roundabouts, modern roundabouts reduce the likelihood and severity of collisions by reducing traffic speeds and minimizing T-bone and head-on collisions. Variations on the basic concept include integration with tram and/or train lines, two-way flow, higher speeds and many others.
Traffic exiting the roundabout comes from one direction, rather than three, simplifying the pedestrian's visual environment. Traffic moves slowly enough to allow visual engagement with pedestrians, encouraging deference towards them. Other benefits include reduced driver confusion associated with perpendicular junctions and reduced queuing associated with traffic lights. They allow U-turns within the normal flow of traffic, which often are not possible at other forms of junction. Moreover, since vehicles on average spend less time idling at roundabouts than at signalled intersections, using a roundabout potentially leads to less pollution. Also, when entering vehicles only need to give way, they do not always perform a full stop. As a result, by keeping a part of their momentum, the engine will produce less work to regain the initial speed, resulting in lower emissions. Additionally, slow moving traffic in roundabouts makes less noise than traffic that must stop and start, speed up and brake.
Modern roundabouts are commonplace throughout the world. Half of the world's roundabouts are in France (more than 30,000 as of 2008), although the United Kingdom has more as a proportion of the road than any other country.
A playground roundabout (or merry-go-round) is a flat disk, frequently about in diameter, with bars on it that act as both hand-holds and something to lean against while riding. The disk can be made to spin by pushing or pulling on its handles, either by running around the outside, or by pulling and re-grabbing as it spins, from a stationary stance. Often found in school yards or in parks, these offer riders (typically children) a dizzying ride when either others spin the wheel, or by spinning it themselves by running around it, and then jumping on. People may take turns between riding and spinning. One type of roundabout which differs significantly in terms of how the rotary motion is provided is a Swedish device called the HAGS Pedal Roundabout, which resembles four small exercise bikes attached to a tubular steel ring, which travel on a circular steel rail on the ground. The ring is attached to a vertical pole in the center by four spokes. There is a driving wheel hidden under the casing of each of the "exercise bikes" (the casings prevent toes being run over) and the roundabout is turned by the pedaling action of the riders.Both "roundabout" and "merry-go-round" are also often synonyms for carousel.
The playground roundabout is a simplified version of a fairground carousel.
The roundabout uses rotary motion, which means it spins around in a circle either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
A roundabout is a type of road junction at which traffic enters a stream around a central island after first giving way to the circulating traffic.
Roundabout may also refer to:
- Carousel, a fairground ride also known as a roundabout
- Roundabout (album), a 2006 album by Phil Keaggy
- Roundabout (1950 film), English title of the French film La Ronde
- Roundabout (1957 film), an Australian television film
- Roundabout (1989 film), English title of the French film Un tour de manège
- Roundabout (play), a children's ride similar to a carousel
- "Roundabout" (song), a song by the band Yes
- Round About (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Freestyle Music Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Round About (sculpture), a sculpture by Linda Howard at the Lynden Sculpture Garden
- Roundabout, Newfoundland and Labrador, a defunct settlement in Canada
- Roundabout interchange, an interchange between a freeway and a minor road
- Roundabout Theatre Company, a non-profit theater company based in New York City
- Roundabout (video game), a 2014 independent computer game
- Roundabout, a type of bet offered by UK bookmakers
- Roundabout, an American term for a jacket also known as a wamus.
- an early name for rock band Deep Purple
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 involved in axon guidance. The Drosophila roundabout mutant was named after its phenotype, which resembled the circular traffic junctions (see roundabout). The Robo receptors are most well known for their role in the development of the nervous system, where they have been shown to respond to secreted Slit ligands. One well-studied example is the requirement for Slit-Robo signaling in regulation of axonal midline crossing. Slit-Robo signaling is also critical for many neurodevelopmental processes including formation of the olfactory tract, the optic nerve, and motor axon fasciculation. In addition, Slit-Robo signaling contributes to cell migration and the development of other tissues such as the lung, kidney, liver, muscle and breast. Mutations in Robo genes have been linked to multiple neurodevelopmental disorders in humans.
Roundabout is a television movie, or rather a live television play, which aired on Australian television in 1957. Broadcast 4 January 1957 on ABC station ABV-2, it is notable as the first example of television drama produced in Melbourne Australia. "Official" television broadcasting in the city had only begun 2 months earlier. Cast included British actor Patrick Horgan, Mary Ward and Beverley Dunn. The original TV listing in The Age newspaper described the plot as "a woman's reactions to her husband's suspected affair with another woman". Duration was 30 minutes. Production was by Bill Eldridge. It is not known if a kinescope recording was made of the broadcast. (note: kinescope recording, also known as telerecording, was an early method of recording live television, used in the days before video-tape became widespread). Some of ABV-2 other dramatic one-offs of 1957 were kinescoped so they could be shown in Sydney, but it is not known if any of these kinescopes still exist.
Roundabout is an open-world indie driving video game developed and published by No Goblin LLC. It was released for Windows, Mac and Linux on September 18, 2014, for Xbox One on February 20, 2015, and for PlayStation 4 on May 26, 2015. A PlayStation Vita version is currently planned to be released in 2016.
The game involves a constantly-rotating limousine which the player has to drive around an open world while completing miscellaneous objectives such as pick up and dropping people off or finding collectible items. The gameplay has been described as inspired by Kuru Kuru Kururin (where you also control a constantly-rotating vehicle), and Crazy Taxi (where the goal of the game is to drive NPCs from one location to another).
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.