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rounds

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for rounds.

Editorial note

Accumulating a sustainable amount of money isn't as easy as raising a few rounds on a weak idea.

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a round or fat person.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rounds gathered in one view.

noun

A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a round or fat person.

noun

The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.

noun

A route taken by someone in authority.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rounds.

noun

A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a round or fat person.

noun

The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.

noun

A route taken by someone in authority.

noun

(campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.

Example sentences

1

Accumulating a sustainable amount of money isn't as easy as raising a few rounds on a weak idea.

2

In huge late stage rounds like this is there typically any sort of liquidity provided for non-founder employees?

3

Also, for a CAS platform the pathetic 220 rounds is really going to be a problem.

4

He's very talented but if you can't use that talent for much more than 3 rounds, you can't get too far.

5

And let's be clear about that 220 rounds -- that's only on the F-35A.

6

It takes costly rounds of corrections before you can be transparant about that without causing major upheaval when you reveal everyone's salaries.

7

I've learnt more about VC in 8 months at AngelList than most founders will in all their funding rounds combined.

8

I think I only saw one video making the rounds where this was the case.

9

You can technically have more rounds than letters in the alphabet.

10

I was one of the founders of a venture-backed startup that raised a couple of rounds of funding from a set of VCs.

11

How many rounds of funding can a startup have?

12

> The idea is simple enough: as the truck makes its rounds, the roof-mounted HorseFly UAV selects, transports and drops off a parcel right outside the recipient's front door.

Quote examples

1

'I kind of felt like Bruce Wayne.'" The Batman comic where he rounds up the homeless and imprisons them sounds unbelievably depressing.

2

> Every couple of years (ok, at least every year) I'll try to apply to non-defense jobs, and I get the impression that there's a glut of highly qualified engineers in the private sector -- "Sorry, we're being deluged with applications right now, we'll totally get back to you someday." And the interviews generally involve 3-4 rounds of hazing via Knuth.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use rounds in a sentence?

Accumulating a sustainable amount of money isn't as easy as raising a few rounds on a weak idea.

What does rounds mean?

A surname transferred from the nickname for a descendant of a round or fat person.

What part of speech is rounds?

rounds is commonly used as noun.