verb
Meaning 1
To physically swirl or rotate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Phrase guide
go round
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verb
Meaning 2
To rotate, to move in a circle.
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verb
Meaning 3
To travel around (something) physically.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To circulate, to move aimlessly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To pass around, to circulate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America.
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verb
Meaning 7
To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To go to another person's home or a public event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I went round and told him what I thought of him.
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verb
Meaning 9
To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!
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History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: pyöriä — to physically swirl
- Finnish: kieppua — to physically swirl
- Finnish: kääntyä — to physically swirl
- Finnish: kiertyä — to physically swirl
- German: drehen — to physically swirl
- German: rotieren — to physically swirl
- German: rundlaufen — to physically swirl
- Finnish: kääntää — to rotate
- Finnish: kiertää — to rotate
- Finnish: pyörittää — to rotate
- Finnish: pyöriä — to rotate
- Finnish: kääntyä — to rotate
- Finnish: kiertyä — to rotate
- Finnish: kieppua — to rotate
- German: drehen — to rotate
- German: umkreisen — to rotate
- German: umrunden — to rotate
- Finnish: välttää — to bypass something
- Finnish: karttaa — to bypass something
- Finnish: väistää — to bypass something
- German: um etwas herumgehen — to bypass something
- Finnish: päihittää — to circumvent so.
- German: jmdn. umgehen — to circumvent so.
- Finnish: välttää — to evade sth.
- Finnish: karttaa — to evade sth.
- Finnish: väistää — to evade sth.
- German: etwas umgehen — to evade sth.
- German: herumgehen — (fig.) to circulate invisibly
- German: etwas geht um — (fig.) to circulate invisibly
- Finnish: kierrättää — to pass around (sth.)
- Finnish: pistää eteenpäin — to pass around (sth.)
- German: etwas herumgehen lassen — to pass around (sth.)
- German: herumgereicht werden — to pass around (sth.)
- German: die Runde machen — to pass around (sth.)
- Finnish: riittää kaikille — to be sufficient, be enough for everyone
- German: für alle / jeden (in dieser Runde) — to be sufficient, be enough for everyone
- Finnish: vierailla — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- Finnish: käydä kylässä — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- Finnish: mennä kylään — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- Finnish: piipahtaa — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- Finnish: pistäytyä — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- Finnish: käväistä — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- German: vorbeischauen — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- German: hinübergehen — to go to another person's home or to a particular place
- Finnish: olla tapana — to live behaving in a certain way
- Finnish: tavata — to live behaving in a certain way
- German: herumlaufen — to live behaving in a certain way
- German: herumrennen — to live behaving in a certain way