rounding up
Herding into place
Rounding up is gathering scattered things or people into one place.
Cowboys round up cattle; police round up suspects.
The phrase also means adjusting a number to the next highest whole number or convenient figure: The bill was $47.82, but I rounded up to $50.
A roundup is such a gathering, or a summary of news items.
- musteringGathering or summoning
- corrallingRounding up animals
- cattle driveMoving herd to market
- herdingManaging animal groups
- ceilLine overhead surface
crackdown · police raid · mass arrests · collecting · decimal places · decimal point · droving · wild west · gathering · cattle · encircle · raid · sweep · capture · estimation · whole numbers · nearest · rodeo
- sailingsailboat, sailing, sails, sailboats, catamaran
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking
- estimatesestimate, estimation, ballpark, ballpark estimate, rough estimate
- money customstipping, gratuity, gratuities, tip jar, splitting the bill
rounding uprounding down
Reducing to lesser integer
truncating · flooring · rounding off · underestimating · lowballing
rounding upscattering
Distribution in many directions
dispersing · releasing · letting loose · spreading out · disbanding
rounding upreleasing
Allowing to escape
letting go · setting free · liberating · freeing · discharging
round, around, surround, rounded, surrounded, surrounding, rounding, roundup, roundness