roundabout

«roundabout» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A roundabout (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) is a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a roundabout, roundabouts); adjective (roundabout: indirect)

meaning for a pupil

1) A roundabout (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) is a circular junction where cars go around a middle island and leave at different roads (in the USA often a «traffic circle» or «rotary»). tree →

2) A roundabout in a playground is a round platform that spins while children ride on it (US: merry-go-round). tree →

3) A roundabout can be a fairground merry-go-round with horses. tree →

4) Roundabout as an adjective means not direct: a roundabout way. tree →

sense in the lessons

Safety: at a roundabout drivers give way to traffic already on it; pedestrians cross at crossings, not across the roundabout. Playground: hold on tight and don't jump off a spinning roundabout. Maths: a roundabout exit can be described by turns (quarter turn, half turn). Phrases: at the roundabout, take the second exit, a roundabout route.

examples

• And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people in a roundabout way by the hill-side. (Prophets 2SA.13.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• Take the second exit at the roundabout. tree →
• We spun round and round on the playground roundabout. tree →
• Hold on tight on the roundabout! tree →
• The bus went round the roundabout. tree →
• She told the story in a roundabout way. tree →
• Cars on the roundabout have right of way. tree →
• There was a certain town, the road to which was a very roundabout one. tree →

note

One word. Countable. Meaning depends on country: in the UK it is mostly the road junction or playground ride; in the USA «merry-go-round». Traffic direction on a roundabout depends on the country: clockwise where people drive on the left, anticlockwise where they drive on the right.

In the corpora

• A euphemism is a soft or roundabout word we use instead of a plain word that feels too hard, rude or sad.
• Grown-ups often talk about babies coming in soft, roundabout words instead of plain ones.
• Being poor can feel embarrassing, so people often talk about it with soft, roundabout words.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «roundabout» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.