Should “round” only be used to describe 2-d objects?
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00:00 Should “Round” Only Be Used To Describe 2-D Objects?
00:31 Accepted Answer Score 11
01:09 Answer 2 Score 5
01:32 Answer 3 Score 0
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 11
Persnickety. Round is commonly used to describe spherical objects:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/round
2 . Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/round
19 . any round shape, as a circle, ring or sphere.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/round
1 . a. Being such that every part of the surface or the circumference is equidistant from the center: a round ball.
ANSWER 2
Score 5
Merriam-Webster defines round as:
having every part of the surface or circumference equidistant from the center
It sounds to me like a sphere would fit that definition nicely.
It's possible that math or geometry specialists might define round as only applying to two-dimensional objects, but that usage would be properly considered jargon, rather than common English.
ANSWER 3
Score 0
1 the earth is not round, A circle is round(1d), a ball is round or spheric(2d). The earth is flatten at the poles sow round or spheric do not fully describe that shape