Attack and Round

noun

• Military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons. ()
  • usage: "the attack began at dawn"
  • synonyms: onslaught, onset, onrush
• An offensive move in a sport or game.
  • usage: "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning"
• Intense adverse criticism.
  • usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
  • synonyms: fire, flak, flack, blast
• Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.
  • usage: "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided"
  • synonyms: approach, plan of attack
• The act of attacking.
  • usage: "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"
  • synonyms: attempt
• A decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase.
  • synonyms: tone-beginning
• A sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition.
  • usage: "an attack of diarrhea"
• The onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent. )
  • usage: "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements"
• Strong criticism.
  • usage: "he published an unexpected attack on my work"

verb

• Launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with.
  • usage: "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
  • synonyms: assail
• Attack in speech or writing.
  • usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  • synonyms: round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
• Take the initiative and go on the offensive.
  • usage: "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack"
  • synonyms: aggress
• Attack someone physically or emotionally.
  • usage: "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
  • synonyms: assail, assault, set on
• Set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task.
  • usage: "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed"
• Begin to injure.
  • usage: "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

• (n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.
• (v.t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• (n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.
• (v.t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man or his opinions, in a pamphlet.
• (v.t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
• (v.t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem or some object of labor or investigation.
• (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing or destructive action, by a chemical agent.
• (n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.
• (n.) The act of attacking or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.
• (v.i.) To make an onset or attack.

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.

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