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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Example:
20 or so people were at the party
Synonyms:
about; approximately; around; close to; just about; more or less; or so; roughly; some
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Sense 2
Meaning:
In circumference
Example:
the pond is two miles around
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Sense 3
Meaning:
In the area or vicinity
Example:
waited around for the next flight
Synonyms:
about; around
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Sense 4
Meaning:
From beginning to end; throughout
Example:
frigid weather the year around
Synonyms:
around; round
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Sense 5
Meaning:
By a circular or circuitous route
Example:
the road goes around the pond
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Sense 6
Meaning:
In a circle or circular motion
Example:
The wheels are spinning around
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Sense 7
Meaning:
All around or on all sides
Example:
she looked around her
Synonyms:
about; around
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Sense 8
Meaning:
To a particular destination either specified or understood
Example:
I invited them around for supper
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Sense 9
Meaning:
In or to a reversed position or direction
Example:
suddenly she turned around
Synonyms:
about; around
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Sense 10
Meaning:
Used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
Example:
she sleeps around
Synonyms:
about; around
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Context examples:
She glanced desperately around the cabin and at the bed unrolled on the other bunk.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
These, he pointed around, are my other guns.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Ghost swung around into the wind, and I finished my work forward in time to run aft and lend a hand with the mainsheet.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I looked around me in astonishment.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"We are women together," she repeated, as they went out of the room, their arms around each other's waists, their hearts swelling with a new sense of companionship.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The charge is likely generated by the winds on Titan, which blow at around 30 kilometers per hour.
('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)
South Korean electronics giant Samsung says it will no longer manufacture its troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after numerous reports around the globe of overheating.
(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)
All was silent in and around the cottage; it was an excellent opportunity; yet, when I proceeded to execute my plan, my limbs failed me and I sank to the ground.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
