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Definition: Round Robin |
Round RobinNoun1. A tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant. 2. A letter signed by a number of people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Round Robin A petition or protest signed in such a way that no name heads the list. Of course, the signatures are placed in a circular form. The device is French, and the term is a corruption of rond (round) ruban (a ribbon). It was first adopted by the officers of government as a means of making known their grievances. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | ROUND ROBIN. A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names are written in a circle, so that it cannot be discovered who first signed it, or was, in other words, the ringleader. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin. |
Information | Communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqu_; representation, round robin, presentment. |
Request | Noun: request, requisition; claim; (demand); petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin. |
Resistance | Kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose; fly in the face of; lift the hand against; (attack); rise up in arms; (war); strike, turn out; draw up a round robin; (remonstrate); revolt; (disobey); make a riot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Dude, this is a league game, the winner of this gets to progress into the next round robin. Am I wrong? (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Round Robin (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 102. The Round Robin or Cigar-Fish. Decapterus punctatus (Ag. ), Gill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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Expressions using "round robin": draw up a round robin ♦ sign a round robin. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
round robin | 76 |
round robin tournament | 23 |
round robin schedule | 11 |
round robin tournament bracket | 11 |
round robin dns | 9 |
tennis round robin | 9 |
round robin scheduling | 7 |
round robin quilt | 5 |
round robin format | 4 |
round robin software | 3 |
round robin scheduler | 3 |
weighted round robin | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "round robin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | garë me sistem qarku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | конференция (conference). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έγγραφο φέρων τασ υπογραφάσ εν κύκλω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kérvény sok aláírással. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | petizione (enter, entry, input, petition, plea, suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lactose, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, lounge, loungewear, paddle, raccoon, racket, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round table, rug, rugby, rugger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ラウンドロ"ン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aghin chiarklagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oundray obinray петиция с подписями. (various references) razigravanje. (various references) lista med namnen i cirkel. (various references) herkesin birbiriyle karşılaştığı turnuva (Robin), daire şeklinde imzalanan dilekçe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Round Robin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: roundrobin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: ironbound. | |
-3 letters: boudoir, bourdon, bridoon, inbound. | |
-4 letters: bunion, diuron, durion, inborn, indoor, ronion, unbind, unborn. | |
-5 letters: boron, bound, bourn, brood, bruin, burin, burro, dobro, donor, inurn, odour, onion, robin, rondo, round, unbid, union. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-o-r-r-u" | |
+5 letters: nonreproducible. | |
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