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| NOUN: | 1. An area regularly covered, as by a policeman or reporter: beat, circuit, route. See TERRITORY. 2. Something bent: bend, bow2, crook, curvature, curve, turn. See STRAIGHT. 3. A course, process, or journey that ends where it began or repeats itself: circle, circuit, cycle, orbit, tour, turn. See REPETITION. 4. A course of action to be followed regularly. Often used in plural: routine, track. See USUAL. 5. A number of things placed or occurring one after the other: chain, consecution, course, order, procession, progression, run, sequence, series, string, succession, suite, train. Informal : streak. See ORDER. | | VERB: | 1. To swerve from a straight line: angle2, arc, arch, bend, bow2, crook, curve, turn. See STRAIGHT. 2. To supply what is lacking. Off or out: complement, complete, fill in or (out), supplement. See AGREE, PART. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Well-rounded and full in form: chubby, plump1, plumpish, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, tubby, zaftig. See FAT. 2. Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound: mellow, orotund, plangent, resonant, resounding, ringing, rotund, sonorous, vibrant. See SOUNDS. 3. Having the shape of a curve everywhere equidistant from a fixed point: annular, circular, globoid, globular, spheric, spherical. See GEOMETRY. 4. Not more or less: complete, entire, full, good, perfect, whole. See PART, PRECISE. | | ADVERB: | 1. In or toward a former location or condition: about, around, back, backward, backwards, rearward. See APPROACH. 2. From one end to the other: around, over, through, throughout. See PART. | | PHRASAL VERB: | round up To bring together: assemble, call, cluster, collect1, congregate, convene, convoke, gather, get together, group, muster, summon. See COLLECT.
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