dictionary definitions for "to round to"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Round \Round\, v. i.
     1. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness,
        completeness, or perfection.
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              The queen your mother rounds apace.   --Shak.
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              So rounds he to a separate mind,
              From whence clear memory may begin.   --Tennyson.
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     2. To go round, as a guard. [Poetic]
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              They . . . nightly rounding walk.     --Milton.
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     3. To go or turn round; to wheel about. --Tennyson.
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     To round to (Naut.), to turn the head of a ship toward the
        wind.
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