(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
(a.) A bastion of a circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just as the Roman legions carried their eagle and Christian missionaries had the cross, so the TfL roundel will be raised proudly in parts of the suburban rail network that never saw it before.
(2) Lights started to come on behind the gammariya, the roundel windows of stained glass, casting jewelled shadows on the ground below.
(3) Roundell is a former head of Impressionist and Modern Pictures at Christie’s, whose sales of masterpieces have included Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which broke the then record for a work of art when it sold in 1987 for nearly £25m.
(4) "This is a painting that has everything," says James Roundell of Dickinson, the dealer that will handle the sale for an anonymous private collector.
(5) This included the Korean name of the DPRK written in a stylised Hangul font and a new logo on the tail, featuring a roundel like that of the KPA Air Force – albeit with different proportions – flanked by a blue, stylised bird-of-prey .
(6) Research into Le Moulin d’Alphonse was conducted by James Roundell and Simon Dickinson, British art dealers, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
(7) The system that we propose comprises continuous circular capsulorhexis (Neuhann and Gimbel), hydrodelamination (Brint), roundel phacoemulsification (Hara and Hara), new IOL designs, and intraoperative extensive lens epithelial cell removal.
Rounder
Definition:
(n.) A tool for making an edge or surface round.
(n.) One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
(n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
Example Sentences:
(1) British commentators, famously, do not nurture stars; they mistrust the able and reserve especial snootiness for the multi-able, as if to be a good all-rounder is, yet, to be a master of none.
(2) For someone who has called out Miguel Cotto, Liam Smith made surprisingly hard work of beating an opponent whose first bout of 2015 was a four-rounder in a small hall in Lancashire.
(3) Granule cells differentiation, as judged by the transformation of polymorph, darkly staining small cells into rounder, lightly staining larger granule cells, follows the same gradient from the external dentate limb to the internal dentate limb.
(4) As an all-rounder, he is the best right-sided player on the planet.
(5) Multivariate analysis of variance showed that culture time and subject group had significant effects: changes during macrophage development were less marked in the patient group, nucleoli were fewer, rounder and possibly smaller than normal.
(6) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
(7) While some of the cells had their secretory granules located basally and a long narrow part extending toward the lumen, many appeared rounder and the plane of the section did not indicate that they extended to the lumen.
(8) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
(9) Incubation of stromal cells with a mixture of estradiol, medroxyprogesterone acetate and relaxin, at a concentration reported to yield maximal stimulation of PRL production, resulted in changes from elongated to rounder cells, approx.
(10) The better the impression material fills the ear canal, the rounder the tip of the impression, and the rounder the tip of the earmould made from the impression.
(11) For greater long or short axes of the detected nodes, or for rounder nodes, the metastasis rate was higher.
(12) The early word was that GTA IV would scale back the excesses of San Andreas and provide a rounder, more succinctly inhabited game experience.
(13) These small cells were larger and rounder than those of the SCG.
(14) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
(15) Over this pressure range, the bulges in the spindle-shaped structures in the monolayer became rounder in shape and the number of openings on the surface was apparently greater at 22 mm Hg than at 15 and 8 mm Hg.
(16) Those in the remaining renal tubules, which are lipid-free, were rounder and less uniform in size.
(17) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(18) The stromal fraction cells were initially fusiform and proliferated; in culture, they accumulated lipid inclusions, became rounder and acquired an eccentric nucleus.
(19) The dividing trophozoite has daughter cells that are rounder than the pleomorphic, non-dividing trophozoites.
(20) Samples from the forage-crop region contained more organic material, a greater water soluble fraction and had particles that were, on average, smaller and rounder than particles from the grain district.