Meaning of around | Babel Free

Definitions

1. around (at various places in)
2. Forming a circle or closed curve containing (something).
3. around, approximately
4. Centred upon; surrounding; regarding.
5. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point.
6. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve.
7. Near; in the vicinity of.
8. At or to various places within or throughout.

Equivalents

Examples

“She wore a gold chain around her neck.”

“I planted a row of lilies around the statue.”

“The jackals began to gather around the carcass.”

“Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.”

“We could use some clarification around the new rules.”

“There has been a lot of controversy around the handling of personal information.”

“The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.”

“We walked around the football field.”

“She went around the track fifty times.”

“The road took a brief detour around the large rock formation, then went straight on.”

“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”

“But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.”

“I left my keys somewhere around here.”

“I left the house around 10 this morning.”

“I don't want you around me.”

“The pages from the notebook were scattered around the room.”

“Those teenagers like to hang around the mall.”

“She went around the office and got everyone to sign the card.”

“The estate agent showed me around the property.”

“Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.”

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