rounding
adjectivenounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈɹaʊndɪŋ//
Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
adjective
- 1
Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
Etymology
By surface analysis, round + -ing.
noun
- 1
The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
- 2
The numerical value obtained by this process.
- 3
The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
- 4
A rounded surface; a curve.
In the early Egyptian works, the relief was low, the surface flat, and but little if any attempt was made to show the roundings of the human figure, or to exhibit the inflexion of the human form.
- 5
In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
verb
- 1
Also a form of roundpresent participle and gerund of round
Forms
- plural
- roundings
- comparative
- more rounding
- superlative
- most rounding
rounding · Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
rounds · The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a…Rounds · A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a…route · A course or way which is traveled or passed.