Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 249 ()

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#249.. Rotundity. -- N. rotundity; roundness &c. adj.; cylindricity[obs]; sphericity, spheroidity[obs]; globosity[obs].

cylinder, cylindroid[obs], cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller; rouleau[obs], column, rolling-pin, rundle.

cone, conoid[obs]; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape.

sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder[obs]; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote[obs], clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution) 248.

curved surface, hypersphere; hyperdimensional surface.

V. render spherical &c.adj.; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a ball; give rotundity &c. n.; round.

Adj. rotund; round &c. (circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid[obs]; columnar, lumbriciform[obs]; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal; globular, globated[obs], globous[obs], globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform[obs]; campaniform[obs], campanulate[obs], campaniliform[obs]; fungiform[obs], bead-like, moniliform[obs], pyriform[obs], bulbous; tres atque rotundus[Lat]; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.