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Definition: ROUND-UP |
ROUND-UPNoun1. The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. |
Date "ROUND-UP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The deep notch cut into the base of a tree(following laying in)to govern the direction in which it is to fall and also to prevent the butt splitting. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The deliberate gathering of animals into a herd. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | A summing up of news events. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ROUND-UP |
| Specialty definitions using "ROUND-UP": ROUND-UP-RING HAND. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Last Round-Up (1947) Rustler's Round-Up (1946) Rhythm Round-Up (1945) Rough Riders' Round-up (1939) The Rangers' Round-Up (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Reindeer Round-up Nunivak Island. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. |  | Now for a round-up / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch Company, near Birney, Montana. Branding during the round-up. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Round-up scenes on Belle Fouche [sic] in 1887. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Round-up at Moss Agate of T. 999 A.S. & G., A.U.T. and others. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Bucking Bronco." Ned Coy, a famous Dakota cowboy, starts out for the cattle round-up with his pet "Boy Dick.". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "The Round-Up Band", Pendleton, Ore., 1911. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Indian War Dancers at the "Round-Up", Pendleton, Ore., 1911. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indians on dress parade, "The Round-Up", Pendleton, Ore., 1911. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | East end bleachers at "The Round-Up", Pendleton, Ore., 1911. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Norway | This was entirely a reaction to the U.S. introduction in 1996 of the first Round-up ready (GMO) soybeans, which local Norwegian groups insisted be segregated and labeled, an option commercially unviable for Denofa. (references) |
Human Rights | Haiti | In July 2000, Maissade mayor Willot Joseph and Hinche mayor Joseph Dongot participated in the round-up and beating of seven local opposition members who were imprisoned in Hinche for allegedly setting houses on fire. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ROUND-UP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROUND-UP" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 193 | 22,089 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Roundup, MT (city, FIPS 64525) |
| Language | Translations for "ROUND-UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 召集 (Mustered, Mustering, Rallied, Rallying, roundup). (various references) | |
Danish | sammendrivning (muster), nyhedsresume (news resume), forhug (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references) | |
Dutch | valkerf (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), samendrijven (muster), nieuwsoverzicht (news resume). (various references) | |
Finnish | ratsia (raid), poroerotus, kokoaminen (assembling, collection), kaatokolo (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references) | |
French | rassemblement, point, entaille d'abattage. (various references) | |
German | Zusammentreiben (gather in, muster, round up), Zusammenfassung (abstract, combination, concentration, peroration, precis, resume, subsumption, summarization, summary, summing, summing-up, synopsis, union), Nachrichtenzusammenfassung (news resume), Fallkerb (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), Anhieb (Nick). (various references) | |
Greek | τομή ρίψεως (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendőrhajsza, domborodás (roundup), összeterelés, összefogdosás. (various references) | |
Italian | riepilogo (recap, recapitulation, summary), raggruppamento del gregge (muster), tacca di direzione (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 一斉検挙 (wholesale arrest). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いっせいけ"きょ (wholesale arrest). (various references) | |
Korean | 모집 (roundup). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ound-upray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | súbita batida policial (raid), bica (drain, faucet, fountain, spout, tap, water pipe, waterspout), arrebanhamento (muster). (various references) | |
Russian | округлять в большую сторону (round up). (various references) | |
Spanish | rodeo (circumlocution, detour, encirclement, gird, rodeo, round up), resumen de noticias (news resume), boca de caída (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references) | |
Swedish | riktskär (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), razzia (pinch, round up), tvärskyra (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), stuphugg (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), stjälphugg (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), skyra (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), sammandrivning (muster), förhugg (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut), fällhugg (belly cut, birdsmouth, box, dip, face, gullet, kerf, lek, moutch, notch, scarf, set-up, sink, throat, undercut). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chạy vòng quanh để d"n súc vật cuộc vây bắt, cuộc họp mặt (get-together). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: roundup. | |
| Words within the letters "d-n-o-p-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: pound, proud, round. | |
-3 letters: dorp, dour, drop, durn, duro, nurd, pond, porn, pour, prod, roup, undo, updo, upon. | |
-4 letters: don, dor, dun, duo, dup, nod, nor, oud, our, pod, pro, pud, pun, pur, rod, run, udo, upo, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: do, no, nu, od, on, op, or, un, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-n-o-p-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: roundups. | |
+2 letters: ungrouped. | |
+3 letters: plunderous, unproduced. | |
+4 letters: superabound, unsupported. | |
+5 letters: outproducing, superabounds, superconduct, unproductive, unpronounced. | |
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