Array and Round

array

noun

An orderly arrangement.
- usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
An impressive display.
- usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
Especially fine or decorative clothing.
- synonyms: raiment, regalia
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
- usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- synonyms: range, lay out, set out
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
- synonyms: align

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(n.) An imposing series of things.
(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(n.) The panel itself.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

round

noun

A charge of ammunition for a single shot.
- synonyms: unit of ammunition, one shot
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
- usage: "the never-ending cycle of the seasons"
- synonyms: cycle, rhythm
A regular route for a sentry or policeman.
- usage: "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name"
- synonyms: beat
Often plural. ( a series of professional calls (usually in a set order))
- usage: "the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning"; "the postman's rounds"; "we enjoyed our round of the local bars"
The activity of playing 18 holes of golf.
- usage: "a round of golf takes about 4 hours"
- synonyms: round of golf
The usual activities in your day.
- usage: "the doctor made his rounds"
- synonyms: daily round
Sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.
- synonyms: turn, bout
The course along which communications spread.
- usage: "the story is going the rounds in Washington"
A serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic. )
- usage: "he ordered a second round"
- synonyms: round of drinks
A cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg.
A partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time.
- usage: "they enjoyed singing rounds"
- synonyms: troll
An outburst of applause.
- usage: "there was a round of applause"
A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.
- synonyms: rung, stave
Any circular or rotating mechanism.
- usage: "the machine punched out metal circles"
- synonyms: circle

verb

Wind around; move along a circular course.
- usage: "round the bend"
Make round.
- usage: "round the edges"
- synonyms: round out, round off
Pronounce with rounded lips.
- synonyms: labialize, labialise
Attack in speech or writing.
- usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- synonyms: attack, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.
- usage: "polish your social manners"
- synonyms: polish, round off, polish up, brush up
Express as a round number.
- usage: "round off the amount"
- synonyms: round off, round down, round out
Become round, plump, or shapely.
- usage: "The young woman is fleshing out"
- synonyms: flesh out, fill out

adjective

Having a circular shape.
- synonyms: circular
Of sounds. ( full and rich)
- usage: "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
- synonyms: orotund, rotund, pear-shaped
Mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand. (
- usage: "in round numbers"

adverb

From beginning to end; throughout.
- usage: "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather the year around"
- synonyms: around

(a.) Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers.
(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.
(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.) On all sides; around.
(v.t.) To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
(n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
(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.
(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.) Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style or of authors with reference to their style.
(n.) A circular dance.
(n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
(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.
(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.
(adv.) In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
(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.i.&t.) To whisper.
(n.) See Roundtop.
(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.
(adv.) From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
(n.) Rotation, as in office; succession.
(a.) Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
(n.) That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.
(n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
(n.) Same as Round of beef, below.
(n.) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
(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.
(adv.) Roundly; fully; vigorously.
(v.i.) To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness or perfection.
(a.) Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.
(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.i.) To go round, as a guard.
(adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
(adv.) By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
(n.) The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
(v.i.) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
(n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
(n.) An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
(v.t.) To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
(n.) Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
(a.) Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
(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 short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
(a.) Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct.
(v.t.) To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Round is a financing event usually involving several private equity investors.

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