(a.) Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
(n.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
(n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
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".
Roundish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic examination disclosed an almost roundish, smooth-surfaced, flat and dull red area corresponding to IIc (slightly depressed type).
(2) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
(3) These are roundish shaped, have a granulous matrix and contain very low, hardly detectable levels of the above mentioned enzymes.
(4) After negative staining the large subunits (20.3nm width) usually show a roundish profile, whereas the small subunits (12nm width) show an elongated, often bipartite, profile.
(5) Some labeled cells were roundish or elliptical with few, if any, processes; others had several clearly detectable processes.
(6) In connection with various diseases, spindle-shaped or roundish 2-15 micrometer large corpuscles with a yellowish-green, partly brown color are found in phagocytic cells of lymph nodes of various localisation.
(7) Histologically, roundish and oval cells with "swollen" nuclei forming a sort of parallel rows, foci of calcification and chondroid metaplasia characteristic for such cases were found.
(8) In the transfected cells, polypeptides of both type I and type II CKs were synthesized to near-equimolar amounts, formed heterotypic complexes and assembled into IFs with a peculiar tendency to accumulate into variously sized, often roundish aggregates in the juxtanuclear region, usually one per cell.
(9) The BC is a small, generally spindle- or bell-shaped, rarely roundish cell bridging with its one or two smooth processes two capillaries ore precapillaries.
(10) In the noninvasive cell population ASML most cells remained in the typical roundish morphology and did not interact with the endothelial cell layers.
(11) The cells from poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma were roundish, occurred as solitary cells or irregularly overlapping cell clusters, and showed markedly atypical nuclei.
(12) The cells of papillary thyroid carcinoma are shown to have the following characteristic morphological features: oval or oval to roundish shape of nuclei, uneven sinuous, folded border of the nuclear membrane, nuclear fissure, intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions, optically clean nuclei.
(13) In the cervical enlargement of the rat spinal cord, fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase (FRAP) occurs in most of the small dark sinuous primary afferent central terminals (CI-terminals) of type I-synaptic glomeruli of lamina II and is lacking in the large light roundish primary afferent CII-terminals of type II-glomeruli.
(14) Malignant rhabdoid tumor (2.7% of our cases) possesses cells with large, roundish nuclei, pale chromatin, very prominent nucleoli and characteristic spherical intermediate filament condensations.
(15) Changes of caliber are caused by either tapering or roundish vaults and wrinkles, changes of surface by smaller humps or recesses.
(16) The cuboid cells are identified as type II (precursor) cells based on ultrastructural criteria for embryonic type II cells (Ten Have-Opbroek et al., 1988a, 1990a), including a cuboid cell shape, a large and roundish nucleus, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER), osmiophilic multivesicular bodies, and dense bodies.
(17) These strands become continuous and the facets surrounded by them are roundish in 12 day old embryos.
(18) The clinical picture showed well circumscribed roundish areas free of erythema, simulating normal skin (" nappes claires").
(19) In the groove region, the superficial epithelial cells were roundish, while the basal ones were elongated.
(20) Whereas nearly all platelets from the controls had a discoid shape, those from one of the patients (mother of the other two cases) were mostly flat or else roundish with two or three marginal bundles in different orientations.