What's the difference between rotund and round?

Rotund


Definition:

  • (a.) Round; circular; spherical.
  • (a.) Hence, complete; entire.
  • (a.) Orbicular, or nearly so.
  • (n.) A rotunda.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, with only 20 days of monocular deprivation both deprived and non-deprived rotundal neurons are larger than normal.
  • (2) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
  • (3) I'd quite like to be a balding, rotund, Jungian analyst between 40 and 50."
  • (4) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
  • (5) Nucleus pretectalis was identified as a major target of rotundal efferents as well as a significant input to nucleus rotundus.
  • (6) In a previous study, rotundal lesions in the 'trained' hemisphere caused deficits in interocular transfer of visual discrimination when the lesion was made after acquisition of the monocular learning, but not when the lesion was made before the monocular learning.
  • (7) The woman of the house was rotund and had some trouble walking.
  • (8) Bottle cells forming in vivo show a predominantly animal-vegetal apical contraction and a concurrent apical-basal elongation, whereas those forming in cultured explants show uniform apical contraction and remain rotund.
  • (9) He painted The Kongouro from New Holland from sketches by the voyage's official artist – who had died on the way back – and a kangaroo's skin, which it is thought he inflated, no doubt leading to his roo's somewhat rotund appearance.
  • (10) The rotund (rn) mutation in Drosophila is unique in that its phenotype is limited to the deletion of specific distal parts, though not the extremities, of all adult appendages.
  • (11) Large spherical bodies designated "rotund bodies" are formed as a result of the association of a number of separate cells.
  • (12) They also exhibited important phenotypic defects, such as slow growth in liquid broth, a tendency to aggregate as 'rotund bodies', a twisted filamentous shape, and an extreme sensitivity to lysozyme, suggesting protective and shaping roles for the S-layer in T. thermophilus HB8.
  • (13) With a "Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the President's review board," the inaptly named former Senator Tower (he is a rotund five foot five) led in his fellow-candidates for the Pulitzer Prize.
  • (14) Her rotund, elegant wooden creations suggest waves curling over rocks perforated by the sea.
  • (15) The Cube is for people who find Total Wipeout – rotund insurance sales-people being hurtled into butterscotch Angel Delight in South America – too cerebrally arduous.
  • (16) The rotund body thus appears as a series of rods, usually lying in parallel around the periphery of the sphere, completely connected by means of the fused outer layer.
  • (17) Brief anaerobic exercise and purely static forms of training (sprint, strength sports) do not produce substantial increases in the size of the heart, but a rotund heart shape with rounding of the cardiac tip and in some cases a discrete increase in the wall thickness of the ventricular myocardium is frequently observed.
  • (18) Some rotundal units appeared sensitive to substrate vibration.
  • (19) Today he's not the rotund of Superbad nor quite the skinny of post- Moneyball ; he looks tall and broad-chested, well-groomed, with close-cropped hair.
  • (20) The nucleus rotundus, the diencephalic station of the tectofugal pathway, exhibits the fastest development: rotundal neurons reach their maximum size at 20 days of age; the volume of this structure reaches adult size at the same time.

Round


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To whisper.
  • (a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball.
  • (a.) Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
  • (a.) Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills.
  • (a.) Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers.
  • (a.) Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.
  • (a.) Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
  • (a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
  • (a.) Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
  • (a.) Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style.
  • (a.) Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct.
  • (n.) Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].
  • (n.) A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures.
  • (n.) A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
  • (n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  • (n.) A circular dance.
  • (n.) That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.
  • (n.) Rotation, as in office; succession.
  • (n.) The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  • (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
  • (n.) A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  • (n.) Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
  • (n.) A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
  • (n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
  • (n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  • (n.) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  • (n.) An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
  • (n.) See Roundtop.
  • (n.) Same as Round of beef, below.
  • (adv.) On all sides; around.
  • (adv.) Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
  • (adv.) In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
  • (adv.) From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
  • (adv.) By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
  • (adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
  • (adv.) Roundly; fully; vigorously.
  • (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
  • (v. t.) To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
  • (v. t.) To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
  • (v. t.) To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
  • (v. t.) To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
  • (v. t.) To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
  • (v. i.) To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  • (v. i.) To go round, as a guard.
  • (v. i.) To go or turn round; to wheel about.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (2) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
  • (3) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
  • (4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (5) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
  • (6) In the absence of guanine nucleotides, or in the presence of a non-hydrolyzable GTP analog, only one round of ribosome binding occurs.
  • (7) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (8) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
  • (9) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (10) However, these votes will be vital for Hollande in the second round.
  • (11) The characteristic features of the nasal mucosa obtained here are as follows: 1) The cross-section profiles of the cilium were round and smooth.
  • (12) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (13) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
  • (14) After two complete rounds of DNA synthesis in the presence of BrdU "harlequin" chromosomes were observed.
  • (15) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
  • (16) The only lesson I’ll learn from this is don’t win in the third round.
  • (17) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
  • (18) We studied bobbed loci at different magnification steps, analysing their behaviour through the reversion process and the way they carry out a second round of magnification.
  • (19) A 52-year-old black man was found to have a round density in the right lower lung field.
  • (20) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".