Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - roundabout
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Roundabout
roundabout
(roundabouts) 1. A roundabout is a circular structure in the road at a place where several roads meet. You drive round it until you come to the road that you want. (BRIT; in AM, use traffic circle) N-COUNT 2. A roundabout at a fair is a large, circular mechanical device with seats, often in the shape of animals or cars, on which children sit and go round and round. (BRIT; in AM, use merry-go-round, carousel) N-COUNT 3. A roundabout in a park or school play area is a circular platform that children sit or stand on. People push the platform to make it spin round. (BRIT; in AM, use merry-go-round) N-COUNT 4. If you go somewhere by a roundabout route, you do not go there by the shortest and quickest route. He left today on a roundabout route for Jordan and is also due soon in Egypt. ADJ: usu ADJ n 5. If you do or say something in a roundabout way, you do not do or say it in a simple, clear, and direct way. We made a bit of a fuss in a roundabout way. ADJ: usu ADJ n 6. round about: see round swings and roundabouts: see swing
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I. adjective Date: 1608 circuitous, indirect had to take a ~ route • ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1755 1. a circuitous route ; detour 2. British merry-go-round 3. a short close-fitting jacket worn by men and boys especially in the 19th century 4. British rotary 2 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 Brit. a road junction at which traffic moves in one direction round a central island. 2 Brit. a a large revolving device in a playground, for children to ride on. b = MERRY-GO-ROUND 1. --adj. circuitous, circumlocutory, indirect. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. карусель 2. окольный путь 3. иносказание 4. ам. кресло с круглой спинкой 5. ам. короткая куртка 6. круговое движение (транспорта и т. п.) 7. кольцевая транспортная развязка с односторонним движением 8. кружный путь Id: what you lose on the swings you make (up) on the roundabouts —- что выиграешь в одном, потеряешь в другом 9. окольный; кружный; обходной to hear of smth. in a roundabout way —- узнать о чем-л. окольным путем roundabout system of traffic —- система одностороннего кругового движения транспорта 10. иносказательный 11. полный, дородный ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adj. 1) окольный; кружный; обходной 2) иносказательный 3) толстый, дородный 2. noun 1) окольный путь 2) карусель 3) amer. короткая мужская куртка ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n BrE 1 a raised circular area which cars drive around, used where three or more roads join; traffic circle AmE 2 round structure which children sit on while people push it around and around; merrygoround AmE 3 a merrygoround (1) (- see also swings and roundabouts swing2 (8)) ~2 adj not done in the shortest, most direct way possible (a roundabout route to avoid the worst of the traffic | It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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