Meaning of in the round | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not attached to a background.
2. Having a stage completely surrounded by an audience.
3. Done with circular needles, so as to create tubes of fabric.
4. In full detail; from all angles.
   figuratively

Examples

“Noah's ark with animals in the round”

“Not so the sculpture in the round: it stands in ordinary space with the other bodies, a body like them. We must hold fast to this outcome; it will allow us to explain the true essence of sculpture, the designation we confer on sculpture in the round alone. Painting and relief create their own space.”

“There is another sense in which we can say that theatre begins in the round. Teachers in schools frequently observe that the dramatic play of children and their early attempts at theatre frequently take a natural in-the-round shape.”

“By staging national identity “in the round,” Arena opens up multifaceted perspectives of who comprises the nation and under what circumstances. Finchandler observed: “Since it has no back, front or sides, the arena becomes a highly democratic form for the audience, […].””

“Down in the arena, though, it was business as semi-normal with the band members making their traditional promenade through the crowd to a small in-the-round stage with a colourful player piano taking up most of the room.”

“Loosely cast on 90 stitches. Place stitch marker and join to work in the round, being careful not to twist the cast-on stitches.”

“The government responds to such news with its usual ludicrous evasions: “I don’t deny there are costs to a decision like Brexit,” said Jeremy Hunt in November, “but there are also opportunities, and you have to see it in the round.””

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