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# around

«around» in Mova's school dictionary: **on every side of something, or in a circle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

preposition, adverb (around; UK also round)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Around means on every side of something, or in a circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#m1)

2) Around means about, not exact: «around 30 people». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#m2)

3) Around means in different places nearby: «walk around the town». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#m3)

4) Around means turning to face the other way: «turn around». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

the distance all the way round a shape (perimeter); also an approximate number; phrases «turn around», «look around», «around the corner», «all around», «around the world», «get around»

### examples

- A fence goes around a yard 10 m by 6 m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x1)
- She ran around the track 4 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x2)
- There are around 30 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x3)
- How much ribbon goes around the box? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x4)
- The Earth goes around the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x5)
- Turn around and look behind you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x6)
- The shop is just around the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x7)
- We looked around the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x8)
- I'll see you around 5 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x9)
- The moon goes around the Earth in about a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x10)
- Great white ice-bergs came drifting around them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/#x11)

### note

«around a shape» means perimeter: add all the sides. Trap: «around 30» means about 30, an estimate, not a sum. The Earth goes around the Sun in a year.

### In the corpora

- [Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/15/)
- [To isolate a part means to practise one small bit on its own, then join it back to the bars around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/14/)
- [A rumour is a story passed around without proof; it is not a fact just because many people repeat it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/13/)
- [The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/5/)
- [The Renaissance was a period of new learning and art in Europe from around 1400 to 1600.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «around» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/around/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.