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

a. intransitive. To assume or grow into a round shape or form.

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1581 T. Hill's Nat. & Artific. Concl. sig. D. i Take the pouder of the Willowe sticke, finelie beaten and searsed with the whiche ioyne a little newe Silke, makyng it rounde vp like vnto a ball.

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 42 Over the Cliff the Hill rounds up to the top.

1780 Encycl. Brit. V. 3392/1 This should be laid rounding up in the middle, by which means the larger stones will run off to the sides, and may be raked away.

1883 Dietetic Reformer July 201 As it rounded up from the blossom of the parent stem, in the early summer 1787, a bottle was drawn over it.

1915 Aerial Age Weekly 20 Sept. 10/2 At the rear of the propeller it is slightly concave for a short distance, whence it rounds up again and tapers back to the stern.

1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) iv. 102 The [dying] cell stops making its enzymes, can no longer keep the glucose fires going, and finally rounds up into a ball and falls to pieces.

b. transitive. To make round in shape or form.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > make into curved three-dimensional shape [verb (transitive)] > make spherical or globular > form into spherical mass

conglobe1535

ball1577

conglomerate1596

to round up1615

conglobate1635

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > agglomerate or conglomerate > into a ball

to round up1615

glomerate1655

the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > make round [verb (transitive)] > by contracting or expanding

to round up1992

1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 71 Innumerable plagues of hell are rounded vp together in one.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xviii. 429 He rounded himself up in his own prickles.

1737 Whole Duty of Woman xvii. 310 Get a Fillet of Veal, cut out of it five lean Pieces,..round them up a little, then lard them.

1771 D. Henry Compl. Eng. Farmer xxx. 426 This they do very dexterously by sloping down the sides, and throwing the mould lightly over the beds, and then rounding them up.

1845 Amer. Q. Jrnl. Agric. & Sci. 1 90 Last of all with a road scraper, scrape on the loose earth and round it up over the drain.

1885 A. B. Hervey tr. J. W. Behrens Microscope in Bot. i. 30 Here it [sc. a drop of water] will round itself up into a little hemisphere.

1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 41/1 In its amœba phase..the strange animal can round itself up and surround itself with a protective membrane.

1992 H. J. Busscher et al. in L. F. Melo et al. Biofilms v. 321 It appeared that cells tended to round up their shape as a response to increasing shear.

2006 B. Dojny Dishing up Maine iii. 132/1 When the fire is going well, throw all the sticks in to fill the hole and round it up.

2. Nautical.

a. transitive. To haul in (a rope or tackle), esp. in a vertical direction. Cf. to round in 2 at Phrasal verbs.

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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific way

windc1550

heave1626

to round up1766

to veer and haul1769

to freshen the nip1807

single1900

swig1917

1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III Rounding up a Tackle, the act of drawing the block or pullies together when no weight is suspended by it.

1834 C. Martelli Naval Officer's Guide 11 I will..bend the end [of the whip] into the fall with a bowline knot, and round it up to the man on the yard, who will cast it off.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 604 Round up, to shorten up a tackle; to pull up a slack rope through a block.

1913 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 159/2 To find men who can round up such a tackle, after launching a boat..is almost impossible today.

2000 R. Mayne Lang. Sailing 241 To round up is to take in the slack or a rope vertically.

b. intransitive. To turn and come to a standstill; = to round to at Phrasal verbs.

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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward > in heaving to or stopping

to round to1799

to round up1854

1854 Times 7 Nov. 7/3 Admiral Dundas followed with most of his fleet, steering first southward and rounding up again.

1899 C. Morris Triumphs 100 Years xxxiv. 503 Dewey's fleet..rounded up in face of the Spanish fleet.

1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? viii. 111 The Sea Bear slipped on in silence towards the big white motor yacht... She rounded up perhaps forty yards away.

1991 S. Colgate On Sailing iv. 109 On the approach, round up into the wind.

3. transitive.

†a. To complete (a quantity) to a predetermined size. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up > make up (a number)

to round up1806

1806 R. Cumberland Mem. I. 262 [Johnson added] ‘I want one of the dozen, and I must request Mrs. Cumberland to round up my number’.

b. To increase (a number) when rounding it by adding 1 to its rightmost remaining digit, or by expressing it as the next higher round number. Also intransitive. Cf. sense 15.

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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

1874 E. Chamberlin Chicago & Suburbs 177 The population of Chicago..was 298,977—an enumeration by common consent so moderate, that we have no compunction in at least rounding up the figures to 300000.

1906 C. E. Sprague Accountancy of Investm. (ed. 3) ii. 17 If we prefer to use only six figures, we round it up to 1·125509.

1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines vii. 129 In a long calculation, all these increases may accumulate, and it is better to round some of them up and some of them down.

1963 Rep. Comm. Inq. Decimal Currency iv. 30, in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2145) XI. 195 The custom with some of these goods is to round up, sometimes down, to the nearest halfpenny.

2008 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 24 July 13 I could understand if they had rounded it up to the nearest penny, but this is just a rip-off.

a. transitive. Originally U.S. and Australian. To gather a scattered herd of (animals, esp. cattle) by riding around so as to drive together. Cf. to round in 4 at Phrasal verbs. Also intransitive.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > round up

muster1813

to round up1849

rodeo1854

round1865

to round in1874

1849 C. Sturt Narr. Exped. Central Austral. I. v. 228 At 9 P.M. we rounded up the cattle until the moon should rise.

1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 126/2 At night they ‘round up’ or ‘corral’.

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 175 Before we turned in the horses were all rounded up.

1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 15 They shore outer be here now. They rounded up last week.

1925 C. G. Bruce in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 26 Kingston and I amused ourselves by trying to round up some kiang [sc. wild donkeys].

1949 Sky Line Trail Oct. 18/1 I met some cowboys rounding up strayed horses.

2001 Ecologist May 46/1 The ponies are rounded up in a ‘drift’ by the Commoners of the Forest.

b. transitive. More generally: to bring, collect, or gather together. Occasionally with reference to a single person.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)]

somnec825

heapc900

gathera975

samc1000

to set togetherc1275

fang1340

assemblec1374

recueilc1380

drawa1393

to draw togethera1398

semblea1400

congatherc1400

congregatec1400

to take together1490

recollect1513

to gather togetherc1515

to get together1523

congesta1552

confer1552

collect1573

ingatherc1575

ramass1586

upgather1590

to muster upa1593

accrue1594

musterc1595

compone1613

herd1615

contract1620

recoil1632

comporta1641

rally1643

rendezvous1670

purse1809

adduct1824

to round up1873

reeve1876

to pull together1925

the world > movement > transference > bringing > bring [verb (transitive)] > fetch

fetchc1000

fet1297

to go for ——c1405

get1594

to round up1873

1873 Queensland Parl. Deb. 26 June 328/1 A few years ago a railway firm rounded up all the men in its service.

1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 27 May 4/5 All the suspects will be rounded up for the coroner's inquest.

1910 Chambers's Jrnl. June 384/1 I have seen groups of these unfortunates ‘rounded up’ and marched off to the nearest police~station.

1931 Daily Express 15 Oct. 6/3 The star-traders of the talkies have been out rounding up fresh material from which to carve the box-office idols of the future.

1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel vi. 136 I heard about your difficulty and immediately rounded up Cecil.

2005 J. Medlicott Covington Christmas xv. 158 We've had times when the old furnace went out on us, and we just rounded up a couple of space heaters.

c. intransitive. Of animals or people: to gather together. Now rare.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of people or animals

gathera975

ensemblea1300

drawc1300

semble1389

herd1393

assemblea1400

routa1400

sanka1400

trume?a1400

musterc1425

convene1429

resemblea1450

to draw together1455

forgather1513

accompany1534

troop1565

congregate1570

to get together1575

parliament?1589

accoil1590

join1706

to roll up1817

congressa1850

to round up1879

1879 Missouri Republican 22 Oct. 3/7 Are you going to ‘round up’ at Maj. B.'s tonight?

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 241 The..cattle..being permitted to round up on the camp.

1904 Field & Stream July 285/1 When we rounded up in the evening, seven trout were all I could show.

单词	to round up
释义	> as lemmas to round up to round up 1. a. intransitive. To assume or grow into a round shape or form. ΚΠ 1581 T. Hill's Nat. & Artific. Concl. sig. D. i Take the pouder of the Willowe sticke, finelie beaten and searsed with the whiche ioyne a little newe Silke, makyng it rounde vp like vnto a ball. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 42 Over the Cliff the Hill rounds up to the top. 1780 Encycl. Brit. V. 3392/1 This should be laid rounding up in the middle, by which means the larger stones will run off to the sides, and may be raked away. 1883 Dietetic Reformer July 201 As it rounded up from the blossom of the parent stem, in the early summer 1787, a bottle was drawn over it. 1915 Aerial Age Weekly 20 Sept. 10/2 At the rear of the propeller it is slightly concave for a short distance, whence it rounds up again and tapers back to the stern. 1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) iv. 102 The [dying] cell stops making its enzymes, can no longer keep the glucose fires going, and finally rounds up into a ball and falls to pieces. b. transitive. To make round in shape or form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > make into curved three-dimensional shape [verb (transitive)] > make spherical or globular > form into spherical mass conglobe1535 ball1577 conglomerate1596 to round up1615 conglobate1635 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > agglomerate or conglomerate > into a ball to round up1615 glomerate1655 the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > make round [verb (transitive)] > by contracting or expanding to round up1992 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 71 Innumerable plagues of hell are rounded vp together in one. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xviii. 429 He rounded himself up in his own prickles. 1737 Whole Duty of Woman xvii. 310 Get a Fillet of Veal, cut out of it five lean Pieces,..round them up a little, then lard them. 1771 D. Henry Compl. Eng. Farmer xxx. 426 This they do very dexterously by sloping down the sides, and throwing the mould lightly over the beds, and then rounding them up. 1845 Amer. Q. Jrnl. Agric. & Sci. 1 90 Last of all with a road scraper, scrape on the loose earth and round it up over the drain. 1885 A. B. Hervey tr. J. W. Behrens Microscope in Bot. i. 30 Here it [sc. a drop of water] will round itself up into a little hemisphere. 1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 41/1 In its amœba phase..the strange animal can round itself up and surround itself with a protective membrane. 1992 H. J. Busscher et al. in L. F. Melo et al. Biofilms v. 321 It appeared that cells tended to round up their shape as a response to increasing shear. 2006 B. Dojny Dishing up Maine iii. 132/1 When the fire is going well, throw all the sticks in to fill the hole and round it up. 2. Nautical. a. transitive. To haul in (a rope or tackle), esp. in a vertical direction. Cf. to round in 2 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific way windc1550 heave1626 to round up1766 to veer and haul1769 to freshen the nip1807 single1900 swig1917 1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III Rounding up a Tackle, the act of drawing the block or pullies together when no weight is suspended by it. 1834 C. Martelli Naval Officer's Guide 11 I will..bend the end [of the whip] into the fall with a bowline knot, and round it up to the man on the yard, who will cast it off. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 604 Round up, to shorten up a tackle; to pull up a slack rope through a block. 1913 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 159/2 To find men who can round up such a tackle, after launching a boat..is almost impossible today. 2000 R. Mayne Lang. Sailing 241 To round up is to take in the slack or a rope vertically. b. intransitive. To turn and come to a standstill; = to round to at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward > in heaving to or stopping to round to1799 to round up1854 1854 Times 7 Nov. 7/3 Admiral Dundas followed with most of his fleet, steering first southward and rounding up again. 1899 C. Morris Triumphs 100 Years xxxiv. 503 Dewey's fleet..rounded up in face of the Spanish fleet. 1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? viii. 111 The Sea Bear slipped on in silence towards the big white motor yacht... She rounded up perhaps forty yards away. 1991 S. Colgate On Sailing iv. 109 On the approach, round up into the wind. 3. transitive. †a. To complete (a quantity) to a predetermined size. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up > make up (a number) to round up1806 1806 R. Cumberland Mem. I. 262 [Johnson added] ‘I want one of the dozen, and I must request Mrs. Cumberland to round up my number’. b. To increase (a number) when rounding it by adding 1 to its rightmost remaining digit, or by expressing it as the next higher round number. Also intransitive. Cf. sense 15. 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 1874 E. Chamberlin Chicago & Suburbs 177 The population of Chicago..was 298,977—an enumeration by common consent so moderate, that we have no compunction in at least rounding up the figures to 300000. 1906 C. E. Sprague Accountancy of Investm. (ed. 3) ii. 17 If we prefer to use only six figures, we round it up to 1·125509. 1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines vii. 129 In a long calculation, all these increases may accumulate, and it is better to round some of them up and some of them down. 1963 Rep. Comm. Inq. Decimal Currency iv. 30, in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2145) XI. 195 The custom with some of these goods is to round up, sometimes down, to the nearest halfpenny. 2008 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 24 July 13 I could understand if they had rounded it up to the nearest penny, but this is just a rip-off. 4. a. transitive. Originally U.S. and Australian. To gather a scattered herd of (animals, esp. cattle) by riding around so as to drive together. Cf. to round in 4 at Phrasal verbs. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > round up muster1813 to round up1849 rodeo1854 round1865 to round in1874 1849 C. Sturt Narr. Exped. Central Austral. I. v. 228 At 9 P.M. we rounded up the cattle until the moon should rise. 1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 126/2 At night they ‘round up’ or ‘corral’. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 175 Before we turned in the horses were all rounded up. 1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 15 They shore outer be here now. They rounded up last week. 1925 C. G. Bruce in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 26 Kingston and I amused ourselves by trying to round up some kiang [sc. wild donkeys]. 1949 Sky Line Trail Oct. 18/1 I met some cowboys rounding up strayed horses. 2001 Ecologist May 46/1 The ponies are rounded up in a ‘drift’ by the Commoners of the Forest. b. transitive. More generally: to bring, collect, or gather together. Occasionally with reference to a single person. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] somnec825 heapc900 gathera975 samc1000 to set togetherc1275 fang1340 assemblec1374 recueilc1380 drawa1393 to draw togethera1398 semblea1400 congatherc1400 congregatec1400 to take together1490 recollect1513 to gather togetherc1515 to get together1523 congesta1552 confer1552 collect1573 ingatherc1575 ramass1586 upgather1590 to muster upa1593 accrue1594 musterc1595 compone1613 herd1615 contract1620 recoil1632 comporta1641 rally1643 rendezvous1670 purse1809 adduct1824 to round up1873 reeve1876 to pull together1925 the world > movement > transference > bringing > bring [verb (transitive)] > fetch fetchc1000 fet1297 to go for ——c1405 get1594 to round up1873 1873 Queensland Parl. Deb. 26 June 328/1 A few years ago a railway firm rounded up all the men in its service. 1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 27 May 4/5 All the suspects will be rounded up for the coroner's inquest. 1910 Chambers's Jrnl. June 384/1 I have seen groups of these unfortunates ‘rounded up’ and marched off to the nearest police~station. 1931 Daily Express 15 Oct. 6/3 The star-traders of the talkies have been out rounding up fresh material from which to carve the box-office idols of the future. 1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel vi. 136 I heard about your difficulty and immediately rounded up Cecil. 2005 J. Medlicott Covington Christmas xv. 158 We've had times when the old furnace went out on us, and we just rounded up a couple of space heaters. c. intransitive. Of animals or people: to gather together. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of people or animals gathera975 ensemblea1300 drawc1300 semble1389 herd1393 assemblea1400 routa1400 sanka1400 trume?a1400 musterc1425 convene1429 resemblea1450 to draw together1455 forgather1513 accompany1534 troop1565 congregate1570 to get together1575 parliament?1589 accoil1590 join1706 to roll up1817 congressa1850 to round up1879 1879 Missouri Republican 22 Oct. 3/7 Are you going to ‘round up’ at Maj. B.'s tonight? 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 241 The..cattle..being permitted to round up on the camp. 1904 Field & Stream July 285/1 When we rounded up in the evening, seven trout were all I could show. extracted from roundv.² < as lemmas
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