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Meaning of गोल in English

  • Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
  • Banded or marked with circles.
  • Round; circular; spherical.
  • Hence, complete; entire.
  • Orbicular, or nearly so.
  • A rotunda.
  • To whisper.
  • 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.
  • Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
  • 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.
  • Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers.
  • Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.
  • Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
  • 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.
  • Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
  • Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style.
  • Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct.
  • Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].
  • 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.
  • 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 series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
  • A circular dance.
  • That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.
  • Rotation, as in office; succession.
  • The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  • Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
  • 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.
  • The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
  • A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  • A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  • An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
  • See Roundtop.
  • Same as Round of beef, below.
  • On all sides; around.
  • 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.
  • In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
  • From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
  • By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
  • Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
  • Roundly; fully; vigorously.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
  • To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
  • To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
  • To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
  • To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  • To go round, as a guard.
  • To go or turn round; to wheel about.
  • of Round
  • Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
  • A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
  • One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
  • A tool for making an edge or surface round.
  • An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
  • A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
  • A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
  • A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
  • Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
  • The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
  • In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
  • The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
  • Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
  • Rank; order of society; social positions.
  • An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
  • To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
  • To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

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