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rounds to

rounds to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of round to.

Meaning of round to

Verb

round to (third-person singular simple present rounds to, present participle rounding to, simple past and past participle rounded to)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed.
    • In less than an hour she was close to the reef, where she rounded to, and backed her topsails in order to survey the coast.1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island
    Synonyms:
    come to, head up

Questions about rounds to

What is rounds to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rounds to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of round to.

Words near rounds to in the dictionary

  1. rounds of beef
  2. rounds off
  3. rounds on
  4. rounds out
  5. rounds the Horn
  6. rounds to
  7. rounds up
  8. rounds upon
  9. roundshield
  10. roundshields
  11. roundside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rounds to (page history and authors); round to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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