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单词 round-headed
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round-headedadj.

Brit. /ˌraʊndˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈraʊn(d)ˌhɛdəd/
Forms: see round adj. and headed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: round adj., headed adj.
Etymology: < round adj. + headed adj. In specific use in sense 4 after roundhead n. 1a.
1.
a. Of a nail, screw, or bolt: having a rounded end or top.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [adjective] > nail > round-headed
round-headed1559
mill-head1790
mill-headed1805
1559 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 150 ijC Rounde heddyd pyns, ij s.
1597 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 688 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Round For making of tuelf round heidit naillis for outputting of the latchettis of the claith of the pulpit.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. v. 53 He beareth Gules, a Cross Anserated, (or a Cross Gringolee,) Argent; from the middle of each end, a Nail round headed, issuant, Sable.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 29 At the Angles of the Rhombuses, were round headed Nails driven.
1782 W. Smellie Acct. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 94 A Caledonian target, covered with black leather, which is handsomely studded with large and small round headed brass nails.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Nail Rose-bud Nails are small round-headed nails, driven in the centre of the roses of the plates.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 256/1 The screws..are round-headed and countersunk.
1963 K. H. Seibel Joyful Christmas Craft Bk. ix. 177 Use upholstery tacks or small round-headed tacks for eyes or decorations.
1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) 13 The bench was slatted and hard and studded with big roundheaded bolts that made reclining in comfort an impossibility.
b. gen. Having a round, curved, or circular end or top.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] > rounded or not angular > at the top, end, etc.
round top1798
crowning1812
round-headed1817
bull-nosed1904
1713 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Mechanicks ix. 66 The Height of the Quicksilver is the same, both in the round-headed Tube DEHF, and the sharp-headed KLB, as it is in the Cylinder.
1754 L. Natter Treat. Anc. Method engraving Precious Stones ii. 4 Some of the best ancient Artists chose to make use of the round-headed Tool or Bouterolle.
1801 Naval Chron. 5 in Mariner's Mirror (1944) 30 167 It is more than seventeen years since I brought into use, for the East India Ships, round-headed rudders requiring no rudder-coats.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. v. 91 The Cheviots rose before me..huge, round-headed, and clothed with a dark robe of russet.
1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. i. 227 These round-headed grave-stones can be traced back in England to the 11th or 12th century.
1908 Archeological Jrnl. 65 77 (caption) Bronze round-headed brooch, Kertch, Crimea.
1984 M. G. Yaşargil Microneurosurgery I. iii. 255/2 Round headed forceps (smooth surfaced or with teeth) are especially useful to provide traction on an aneurysm.
2008 Mariner's Mirror 94 68 The rudder is of round-headed form, sometimes referred to as ‘gunstock’.
c. Architecture. Of an arch, window, etc.: having a semicircular top; = round-arched adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > types of arch
schemed1715
rampant1725
surmounted1728
ox-eyed1736
round-headed1751
full-centred1756
rounded1757
shark-toothed1794
straight1812
spandrelled1813
keyed1822
full centre1837
ogival1841
ogived1845
subarcuated1849
bonnet-headed1850
ogeed1851
uncusped1859
voussoired1875
subordered1898
1751 R. Widmore Hist. Church St. Peter 55 We have some forms of this ancient Saxon way, which was with piers, or round pillars (stronger than Tuscan or Doric) round-headed arches and windows.
1775 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. II. x. 414 Lighted up within by the round-headed arches of Roman windows.
1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 497 This recess was originally illuminated by five narrow round-headed windows.
1881 E. A. Freeman Sketch Subj. Lands Venice 104 Above was a simple round-headed clerestory.
1951 J. Lees-Milne Tudor Renaissance 138 We have the results of his patronage..in the tiers of roundheaded panels of the oak parlour at Quenby Hall.
1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 179 The general evenness of the court frontages is interrupted by the two large round-headed chapel windows.
2002 Oxoniensia 66 378 A porch of classical design, comprising a round-headed doorway flanked by applied pilasters.
2. depreciative. Common, vulgar. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]
carlisha1240
lewdc1380
carlc1450
villain1483
ruffian1528
shake-ragged1550
porterlike1568
popular1583
ungracious1584
ordinarya1586
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
round-headed1598
base-like1600
strummell-patch1600
porterly1603
scrubbing1603
vernaculous1607
plebeian1615
reptile1653
proletarian1663
mobbish1695
low1725
terraefilial1745
low-lifed1747
Whitechapel1785
lowlife1794
boweryish1846
gutter1849
bowery1852
lowish1886
swab1914
lumpen1944
1598 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Achilles Shield To Understander sig. B2 Swaggering is a new worde amongst them, and rounde headed custome giues it priuiledge with much imitation.
1600 G. Chapman in R. Allott Englands Parnassus 47 Round headed Custome th'apoplexie is, Of bedrid nature.
1633 Match at Mid-night iii. i. sig. F2 Marry who thou woot to make a shew to shrowd thee from the stormes round headed opinion, that swayes all the world, may let fall on thee.
3.
a. Of a tree or other plant: having a rounded form or crown, or a rounded flower or seed head. Also in the names of plants having such a characteristic. round-headed rampion n. a rampion, Phyteuma orbiculare, with heads of blue curved flowers, native to dry grassland, esp. the chalk downs of southern England.
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the world > plants > part of plant > head or heart > [adjective] > having a head or top > of particular type
spring-headed1590
long-headed1600
round-headed1600
woolly-headed1650
smooth-headed1752
open-headed1887
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xxi. 228 You must weede, water, and dung them many times, especiallie the round headed ones [sc. leeks.]
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. 18 Wee may call it in English, Round headed Caltrope Grasse.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Mushroom The round-headed spring Mushroom.
1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 380 Juncus conglomeratus, Round headed Rush.
1811 Swanland Farm Rep. in J. F. Burke Brit. Husb. 127 Dactylis glomerata..Round-headed cock's-foot.
1818 W. Scott Let. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) IV. iv. 135 To plant birches, oaks, elms, and suchlike round-headed trees along the verges of the Kaeside plantations.
1871 W. Sutherland Handbk. Hardy Herbaceous & Alpine Flowers 184 P. orbiculare (Round-headed Rampion) enjoys a place in the British flora, but is rather rare at home.
1965 Times 6 Nov. 11/5 I think Prunus sargentii has shone out most brilliantly this year. We like it particularly, too, because it makes such a beautiful round-headed tree.
1999 Eng. Nature Mag. July 9/1 The Avon Gorge creates a habitat for unique plants such as the Bristol rock-cress, round-headed leek, compact broome and nit-grass.
2006 G. Nicholls Dwarf Campanulas 225 Phyteuma orbiculare, the round-headed rampion, ranges over much of Europe, including England where it grows in dry meadows and on rocky ground.
b. Of an animal: having a rounded head. Frequently in the names of such animals.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having particular kind of head
hammer-headed1567
golden-headed1625
logger-headed1653
stag-headed1683
round-headed1704
dog-headed1750
acanthocephalous1833
pike-headed1859
1704 Nat. Hist. i, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 180 Round-headed Armadillo.
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 63 Round-headed Cachalot... This species was taken on one of the Orkney Isles.
1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature III. 410 The Round-headed Porpoise (Phocœna melas)..is distinguished by its very convex rounded head.
1897 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates I. 89 The round-headed sportive-lemur.
1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 31 Boston Terrier. Boston Bull-Terrier; Round-headed Terrier.
1971 C. Johansen in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) xiv. 410 Various species of roundheaded wood borers and shothole borers injure the trunks and larger branches.
2000 J. Simpson Mad World, my Masters (2001) xii. 412 Little round-headed monkeys, their tails curled, sat and watched us.
c. Physical Anthropology. Designating a race or type of man characterized by a skull of rounded shape. Frequently contrasted with long-headed (cf. long head n. 2).
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [adjective] > types
short-headed1802
beloid1833
microcephalous1840
platycephalous1846
long-skulled1847
round-headed1847
brachycephalic1849
dolichocephalic1849
acrocephalic1855
megacephalous1857
microcephalic1857
cymbocephalic1861
macrocephalous1861
platycephalic1861
macrocephalic1863
phaenozygous1863
dolichocephalous1864
homoeocephalic1866
mecistocephalic1866
mecocephalic1866
mesocephalic1866
orthocephalic1866
stenocephalic1866
cryptozygous1867
megalocephalic1868
aphanozygous1871
brachycephalous1872
orthocephalous1872
mesaticephalic1873
plagiocephalic1873
plagiocephalic1874
mesaticephalous1876
mesorrhine1877
platyrrhine1877
cylindro-cephalic1878
eurycephalic1878
hypsistenocephalic1878
megaseme1878
mesoseme1878
microseme1878
oxycephalic1878
oxyklinocephalic1878
platybasic1878
pyrgocephalic1878
tapinocephalic1878
megacephalic1879
hypsiconchous1885
mesoconchous1885
chamaeprosopic1886
leptocephalic1886
mesorrhinian1887
long-headed1888
tectocephalic1888
mecistocephalous1890
megalocephalous1890
plagiocephalous1890
mesocephal1891
stegoid1894
brachycranial1902
chamaecephalic1902
chamaeconchic1902
chamaecranial1902
macrocranial1902
platycranial1902
stenocranial1904
mesoconch1905
mesoconchic1909
hypsiconch1920
Lapponoid1939
hypsiconchic1960
1847 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 43 330 The sepulchral remains of the oldest and most barbarous class of inhabitants display a type resembling that of the round-headed Tartar race.
1880 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 131 A small race of round-headed Negroes from West Africa are mentioned by Hamy under the name of Negrillos.
1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. i. v. 106 Mr. W. K. Moorehead..recognises two distinct mound-building races, the old long-headed, and the later round-headed intruders.
1911 Nature 19 Oct. 522/2 A round-headed race is not known to occur in western Europe until the latter part of the Paleolithic period.
1941 Lancet 24 May 677/2 The round-headed Alpine race has outbred the Nordic all over the centre of Europe.
1995 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 22 123/2 This unsound system of trying to trace population movements [in the New World] of long-headed vs. round-headed peoples was mostly (but not totally) discarded after mid-century.
4. Of a person: having short, closely cropped hair; spec. (British historical) that is a Roundhead. Now rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [adjective] > parliamentarian
malignant1641
round-headed1641
parliamentarian1647
parliamentary1648
roundhead1695
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > cut or shaved
nottOE
shavenc1330
rounded?a1439
clipped1483
poll-shorn1556
notched1597
nott-pated1598
well-shaved1600
shaveling1607
nott-headed1612
cropped-eared1641
round-headed1641
polled1653
crop-eared1680
lop-eared1798
shaved1837
crop-headed1842
county-cropped1849
cropped1856
colled1877
crop-haired1879
prison-cropped1882
bob-haired1923
bobbed-haired1928
bobbed-hair1953
slap-headed1994
1641 Copy Let. from Two Thousand Youthfull Citizens (single sheet) For though we be Round-headed, we are not hollow hearted.
1646 W. Prynne Gagge for Long-hair'd Rattle-heads sig. Lv The honour of our ancient Kings, who were Roundheaded, like to the Cœlestiall spheare.
1650 A. Cowley Guardian v. iv. sig. E3v You have invited..the widdows round-headed kindred?
1707 J. Dunton Bumography 53 Their Mock-Tune of Round-Headed-Cuckolds come dig, come dig &c. which they play at your Lodgins.
1795 Tomahawk! 17 Dec. 176/2 A fine, staunch, true blue, round-headed republican old cock, he was.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 104 I thought I had to do with the son of an old round-headed rebel.
1892 F. A. Durham Lone-star of Liberia iii. 119 The Protector Oliver and his round-headed Puritans, bigoted and hypocritical though they were, sternly checked everything calculated to demoralize the British people.
1911 W. O. Tristram Moated Houses xxi. 318 With what force he could muster from a stubborn and particularly Roundheaded peasantry, he made a dash on Banbury.
2002 Civil War Hist. 22 34 If the idea of a ‘Cavalier’ race of ‘Southrons’ proposed early in the war looks peculiar, the ideal Confederate hero that followed—the Roundheaded Cavalier—would be stranger still.

Derivatives

ˌround-ˈheadedness n. the state or condition of being round-headed.
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1872 Westm. Rev. Apr. 460 M. Broca somewhere puts in the plea on behalf of round-headedness generally.
1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans ix. 267 Our picture of the human species will be like a contour-map, a region of high frequency for, say, round-headedness being separated from another similar peak by a ‘valley’ of low frequency.
2004 M. Feenay Nixon at Movies iii. 75 He [sc. Nixon] had firsthand experience of just how maddeningly conventional can be the Pentagon (that citadel of by-the-book Roundheadedness).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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