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[ adverb ] in the area or vicinity
Synonyms Examples "a few spectators standing about" "hanging around" "waited around for the next flight" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license ( he got_off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77 ) , one of his victims was not around to testify : He was dead of cancer . (Francis Pollini, Night....)All he does is to bullshit with his squad , and they are the stupidest bastards around . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He looked wildly around , at the now empty street , at the mud , at the rain . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)She was the only kind of Negro Laura_Andrus would want around : independent , unservile , probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework - and doubly efficient . The street_cleaner had not_yet been around . |
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[ adverb ] by a circular or circuitous route
Examples "He came all the way around the base" "the road goes around the pond" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)He came all_the_way around on Gardner 's hit before 5777 fans . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)And_then : `` There are lots of kids around here '' . (Francis Pollini, Night....)It made no sense to him * * h He whirled around , suddenly hot all_over , finding the man who had been standing before him a_few moments back , nailing him to the spot on which he now stood , open-mouthed - He was sitting on top of a log which was spinning round and around in the water . |
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[ adverb ] to or among many different places or in no particular direction
Synonyms Examples "wandering about with no place to go" "people were rushing about" "news gets around (or about)" "traveled around in Asia" "advice from someone who's been around" "she sleeps around" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Lumpe worked a walk as the first batter to face Hyde and romped around as Siebern blasted Hyde 's next toss 415 feet over the scoreboard in right center . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)She dashes around in alarm . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face . |
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[ adverb ] in a circle or circular motion
Examples "The wheels are spinning around" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)They rode around and around to trample the figure into the sand . They rode around and around to trample the figure into the sand . South of Laurel_Grove_Cemetery , and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware , was the Tri-State_Rock , from which Stevie could spy New_Jersey and Pennsylvania , as_well_as New_York , simply by spinning around on his heel . |
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[ adverb ] (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Synonyms about approximately more_or_less roughly or_so close_to some just_about Examples "lasted approximately an hour" "he's about 30 years old" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundred pounds" "roughly $3,000" "holds 3 gallons, more or less" "20 or so people were there" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)Those familiar_with his work will remember that he placed the incipience of the democratic faith at around 1850 . |
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[ adverb ] in or to a reversed position or direction
Synonyms Examples "about face" "brought the ship about" "suddenly she turned around" Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I do n't know whether he was_after our rider , who had gone_by a minute before , or whether he was simply scouting conditions ; but when he passed us by , a musket roared , and he reared his horse , swung it around , and began to whip it back in the direction from which he had come . |
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[ adverb ] to a particular destination either specified or understood
Examples "she came around to see me" "I invited them around for supper" |
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[ adverb ] in circumference
Examples "the trunk is ten feet around" "the pond is two miles around" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who , though numbering in the fifties , had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack . |
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[ adverb ] all around or on all sides
Synonyms Examples "dirty clothes lying around (or about)" "let's look about for help" "There were trees growing all around" "she looked around her" Used in print (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)The cold , mysterious presence of God was all around him . |
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[ pronoun ] preposition
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[ pronoun ] preposition
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[ adverb ] from beginning to end; throughout
Synonyms Examples "It rains all year round on Skye" "frigid weather the year around" |
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