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# roundabout

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

«roundabout» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#m1)
2. A roundabout in a playground is a round platform that spins while children ride on it (US: merry-go-round). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#m2)
3. A roundabout can be a fairground merry-go-round with horses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#m3)
4. Roundabout as an adjective means not direct: a roundabout way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#m4)

### 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

- Take the second exit at the roundabout. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x1)
- We spun round and round on the playground roundabout. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x2)
- Hold on tight on the roundabout! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x3)
- The bus went round the roundabout. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x4)
- She told the story in a roundabout way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x5)
- Cars on the roundabout have right of way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x6)
- There was a certain town, the road to which was a very roundabout one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/#x7)

### 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 Jewish tradition

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roundabout/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «roundabout» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roundabout/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roundabout» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/roundabout.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «roundabout» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roundabout/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roundabout» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/roundabout.html) on Mova free.