英语词汇“to round off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive.

a. To trim off (an edge, angle, etc.) so as to make round, convex, or curved; to make (something) round in this way.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > be or become curved or bent [verb (intransitive)] > so as not to be angular

to round off1676

the world > space > shape > curvature > curve or bend [verb (transitive)] > so as not to be angular

to round off1676

radius1935

1676 R. Hooke Descr. Helioscopes 5 Putty must not in any wise..be used, it being so very apt to round off the edges of pores or scratches.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 75 The two upper corners of these Rails are rounded off that they may not mark the Paper.

1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 8 Vitruvius orders the Plinth of the Tuscan Column to be rounded off.

1775 J. Strange in Archaeologia (1779) 5 54 It was..a very general custom with the Romans to round off the angles, or corners, of the walls of these camps.

1814 W. Scott Diary 16 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. v. 200 The lower [stone]..is shorter, and rounded off, instead of being square at the corners.

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 62 Do not round off the upper edge of these.

1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 7/1 As soon as the finished wing has dried thoroughly, round off the leading edge.

1961 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 261 489 The walls of the brass tubes were rounded off on the inside at the articulated ends.

2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 77/2 Get more control by using the Median filter to round off unsightly edges.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts.

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1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. Horace in tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry xxiii. 286 Great Faults are rounded off with oily Sneer, Not mall'able by Strokes the most severe.

a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) iii. 113 By..gently rounding off his light..he [sc. Correggio] artfully connected the fiercest extremes of light and shadow.

1879 H. H. Boyesen Falconberg ix. 17 It lends no kindly drapery of inherited history or sentiment to round off our glaring unplastic angularities.

1923 Inter-Amer. Feb. 171/1 Tartarin is Quijote with his roughnesses polished and his angles rounded off by three centuries of civilization.

1987 N. Ward Dawson's Govt. Canada (ed. 6) i. 19 Third [political] parties when young tend to differ sharply from all others, but the differences get rounded off.

2001 E. Lowell Moving Target (2002) xix. 128 It would be worth the effort to round off a few of his rough edges.

2. intransitive. To curve, to bend; to have or assume a rounded, curving form.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > be or become curved or bent [verb (intransitive)]

beyc888

bowOE

fold13..

crumpc1325

windc1374

courbe1377

curb1377

plyc1395

bend1398

ploy?1473

bowl1513

bought1521

tirve1567

crookle1577

crook1579

compass1588

round1613

incurvate1647

circumflex1661

arcuate1678

to round off1678

sweep1725

curve1748

curvaturea1811

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 5 The Heads of Pins that round off towards the edges.

1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. iv. 117 Black letter..has two different r's, one of which is called the ragged r [?], and is particularly used after letters that round off behind.

1796 J. Sowerby Coloured Figures Eng. Fungi (1797) I. Tab. XXXI The gills are invariably of a bright yellow, very partially fixed to the stem, rounding off in some degree from the pileus.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 509 The back of it [sc. the discharging pallet] a little rounding off from the centre.

1887 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 13/2 At length, as the road rounded off towards the west, Roger turned suddenly upon his companion.

1912 Rudder Nov. 211/1 A coat of graphite was spread..running aft in the form of a large oval to within ten feet of the stern, where it rounded off to the rudder.

1972 D. Haston In High Places ix. 100 Almost an ideal mountain panorama. Fitzroy, Poincenot and satellites rockily bounding the right, rounding off towards Pere Giorgio at the head of the valley.

2006 C. Elanchezhian & B. Vijaya Ramnath Manuf. Technol. I (ed. 2) ii. 119 Neutral or balance flame has a well defined luminous cone gradually rounding off towards the tip.

3. transitive.

a. To bring to completion; to make finished or perfect; to end neatly or elegantly.

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the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > appropriately or perfectly

rounda1616

bring1680

to round off1748

to round in1822

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xiii. 135 I gave him..a frown—as much as to say, Swear to it, Captain. But the varlet did not round it off as I would have had him.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 22 He had picked up..a convenient expression, with which he rounded off every letter to his correspondent.

1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 62 Prefacing, and rounding it off by an epilogue.

1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xi. 47 If supreme joy could be rounded off by death, death at the exact right moment, how easy things would be.

1962 S. Wynter Hills of Hebron xiii. 164 And always they rounded off the afternoon with Lady Harrington's condemnation of the island and its natives.

2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xviii. 274 It was proposed that a tour of the Levant..should go ahead as a way of rounding off Bertie's formal education.

b. To complete or extend (a territory or estate) by acquiring adjacent lands.

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1789 T. Holcroft tr. Voltaire Let. in Posthumous Wks. Frederic II VIII. cccxlvii. 184 I know people who..would push forward beyond Belgrade, and who would round off their possessions; recollecting that..the circular figure is the most perfect.

1820 W. Scott Let. 31 May in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) IV. xi. 376 It is £200 too dear, but..it rounds the property off very handsomely.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. 28 An unscrupulous grantee would sometimes round off his estates by seizing small parcels of land.

1900 A. J. Grant French Monarchy (1483–1789) xvi. 173 France wished to round off her eastern frontier by the addition of Lorraine.

1963 B. Lewis Istanbul & Civilization Ottoman Empire ii. 27 The remainder of Mehemmed's reign was occupied with an unceasing series of military campaigns..to consolidate and round off his empire.

2000 H. Kleinschmidt Understanding Middle Ages ii. 50 The goal of rounding off territories as exclusive dominia under the government of one and the same aristocratic ruler was not immediately accomplished everywhere.

†c. To while away (a period of time). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > pleasantly

short1449

shorten1579

deceive1591

sport1593

delude1615

entreata1616

while1635

elude1660

divert1707

dangle1727

wile1796

smile1803

to round off1824

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xx. 15 A conversational facility, Which may round off an hour upon a time.

4. transitive. To round (a number). Also intransitive. Cf. sense 15. [Originally after German abrunden (19th cent. or earlier in this sense).]

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > change a number or quantity [verb (transitive)] > approximate

round1840

to round off1862

to round up1874

to round down1948

1862 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome I. ix. 480 The epoch between the king's flight and the burning of the city was rounded off [Ger. abgerundet] to 120 years.

1915 H. Andoyer in C. G. Knott Napier Tercentenary Memorial Vol. 250 The result of a calculation rounded off according to this rule.

1945 J. P. Eckert et al. Descr. ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) b–5 The products c_i are rounded-off to the same number of places.

1978 D. R. Green & J. Lewis Sci. with Pocket Calculators ii. 21 Many calculators..round off automatically when displaying results.

2009 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 10 Dec. 32 When you drive at 30 to 40km/h over the limit, the fine is $647. Why not round it off?

单词	to round off
释义	> as lemmas to round off to round off 1. transitive. a. To trim off (an edge, angle, etc.) so as to make round, convex, or curved; to make (something) round in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > be or become curved or bent [verb (intransitive)] > so as not to be angular to round off1676 the world > space > shape > curvature > curve or bend [verb (transitive)] > so as not to be angular to round off1676 radius1935 1676 R. Hooke Descr. Helioscopes 5 Putty must not in any wise..be used, it being so very apt to round off the edges of pores or scratches. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 75 The two upper corners of these Rails are rounded off that they may not mark the Paper. 1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 8 Vitruvius orders the Plinth of the Tuscan Column to be rounded off. 1775 J. Strange in Archaeologia (1779) 5 54 It was..a very general custom with the Romans to round off the angles, or corners, of the walls of these camps. 1814 W. Scott Diary 16 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. v. 200 The lower [stone]..is shorter, and rounded off, instead of being square at the corners. 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 62 Do not round off the upper edge of these. 1940 Open Road for Boys Sept. 7/1 As soon as the finished wing has dried thoroughly, round off the leading edge. 1961 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 261 489 The walls of the brass tubes were rounded off on the inside at the articulated ends. 2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 77/2 Get more control by using the Median filter to round off unsightly edges. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. Horace in tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry xxiii. 286 Great Faults are rounded off with oily Sneer, Not mall'able by Strokes the most severe. a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) iii. 113 By..gently rounding off his light..he [sc. Correggio] artfully connected the fiercest extremes of light and shadow. 1879 H. H. Boyesen Falconberg ix. 17 It lends no kindly drapery of inherited history or sentiment to round off our glaring unplastic angularities. 1923 Inter-Amer. Feb. 171/1 Tartarin is Quijote with his roughnesses polished and his angles rounded off by three centuries of civilization. 1987 N. Ward Dawson's Govt. Canada (ed. 6) i. 19 Third [political] parties when young tend to differ sharply from all others, but the differences get rounded off. 2001 E. Lowell Moving Target (2002) xix. 128 It would be worth the effort to round off a few of his rough edges. 2. intransitive. To curve, to bend; to have or assume a rounded, curving form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > be or become curved or bent [verb (intransitive)] beyc888 bowOE fold13.. crumpc1325 windc1374 courbe1377 curb1377 plyc1395 bend1398 ploy?1473 bowl1513 bought1521 tirve1567 crookle1577 crook1579 compass1588 round1613 incurvate1647 circumflex1661 arcuate1678 to round off1678 sweep1725 curve1748 curvaturea1811 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 5 The Heads of Pins that round off towards the edges. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. iv. 117 Black letter..has two different r's, one of which is called the ragged r [?], and is particularly used after letters that round off behind. 1796 J. Sowerby Coloured Figures Eng. Fungi (1797) I. Tab. XXXI The gills are invariably of a bright yellow, very partially fixed to the stem, rounding off in some degree from the pileus. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 509 The back of it [sc. the discharging pallet] a little rounding off from the centre. 1887 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 13/2 At length, as the road rounded off towards the west, Roger turned suddenly upon his companion. 1912 Rudder Nov. 211/1 A coat of graphite was spread..running aft in the form of a large oval to within ten feet of the stern, where it rounded off to the rudder. 1972 D. Haston In High Places ix. 100 Almost an ideal mountain panorama. Fitzroy, Poincenot and satellites rockily bounding the right, rounding off towards Pere Giorgio at the head of the valley. 2006 C. Elanchezhian & B. Vijaya Ramnath Manuf. Technol. I (ed. 2) ii. 119 Neutral or balance flame has a well defined luminous cone gradually rounding off towards the tip. 3. transitive. a. To bring to completion; to make finished or perfect; to end neatly or elegantly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] > bring to an end or conclusion > appropriately or perfectly rounda1616 bring1680 to round off1748 to round in1822 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xiii. 135 I gave him..a frown—as much as to say, Swear to it, Captain. But the varlet did not round it off as I would have had him. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 22 He had picked up..a convenient expression, with which he rounded off every letter to his correspondent. 1874 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains 62 Prefacing, and rounding it off by an epilogue. 1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt xi. 47 If supreme joy could be rounded off by death, death at the exact right moment, how easy things would be. 1962 S. Wynter Hills of Hebron xiii. 164 And always they rounded off the afternoon with Lady Harrington's condemnation of the island and its natives. 2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xviii. 274 It was proposed that a tour of the Levant..should go ahead as a way of rounding off Bertie's formal education. b. To complete or extend (a territory or estate) by acquiring adjacent lands. ΚΠ 1789 T. Holcroft tr. Voltaire Let. in Posthumous Wks. Frederic II VIII. cccxlvii. 184 I know people who..would push forward beyond Belgrade, and who would round off their possessions; recollecting that..the circular figure is the most perfect. 1820 W. Scott Let. 31 May in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) IV. xi. 376 It is £200 too dear, but..it rounds the property off very handsomely. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. 28 An unscrupulous grantee would sometimes round off his estates by seizing small parcels of land. 1900 A. J. Grant French Monarchy (1483–1789) xvi. 173 France wished to round off her eastern frontier by the addition of Lorraine. 1963 B. Lewis Istanbul & Civilization Ottoman Empire ii. 27 The remainder of Mehemmed's reign was occupied with an unceasing series of military campaigns..to consolidate and round off his empire. 2000 H. Kleinschmidt Understanding Middle Ages ii. 50 The goal of rounding off territories as exclusive dominia under the government of one and the same aristocratic ruler was not immediately accomplished everywhere. †c. To while away (a period of time). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > pleasantly short1449 shorten1579 deceive1591 sport1593 delude1615 entreata1616 while1635 elude1660 divert1707 dangle1727 wile1796 smile1803 to round off1824 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV xx. 15 A conversational facility, Which may round off an hour upon a time. 4. transitive. To round (a number). Also intransitive. Cf. sense 15. [Originally after German abrunden (19th cent. or earlier in this sense).] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > change a number or quantity [verb (transitive)] > approximate round1840 to round off1862 to round up1874 to round down1948 1862 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome I. ix. 480 The epoch between the king's flight and the burning of the city was rounded off [Ger. abgerundet] to 120 years. 1915 H. Andoyer in C. G. Knott Napier Tercentenary Memorial Vol. 250 The result of a calculation rounded off according to this rule. 1945 J. P. Eckert et al. Descr. ENIAC (PB 86242) (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. Pennsylvania) b–5 The products c_i are rounded-off to the same number of places. 1978 D. R. Green & J. Lewis Sci. with Pocket Calculators ii. 21 Many calculators..round off automatically when displaying results. 2009 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 10 Dec. 32 When you drive at 30 to 40km/h over the limit, the fine is $647. Why not round it off? extracted from roundv.² < as lemmas
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