round up

rassembler, réunir

Chercher des personnes ou des choses pour les réunir au même endroit.

En anglais simple : To find and bring people or things together in one place.

• Let’s round up some volunteers.
• She rounded up enough chairs for everyone.
• Can you round the team up before lunch?

Comment l'utiliser : round someone/something up (Can you round everyone up for the meeting?)

Synonymes : gather, collect, assemble

Contraires : scatter

Expressions courantes : round up volunteers, round up something, round up everyone

arrondir au supérieur

Remplacer un nombre par un nombre plus grand et plus simple, généralement un entier.

En anglais simple : To change a number to a higher, simpler number, usually a whole number.

• Round up 4.2 to 5.
• We rounded the price up to ten euros.
• Should I round this amount up to the nearest hundred?

Comment l'utiliser : round something up to a number (Round the total up to twenty pounds.)

Synonymes : aggregate, bracket, aggroup, collect

Contraires : round down

Expressions courantes : round up something, round up prices, round up totals

rassembler le bétail

Réunir des animaux d’élevage, souvent en tournant autour d’eux pour les guider vers un même endroit.

En anglais simple : To bring farm animals together, often by moving around them and guiding them to one place.

• We need to round up the sheep.
• The riders rounded up the cattle.
• Her dog helps her round the animals up.

Comment l'utiliser : round animals up (The farmer rounded the sheep up before dark.)

Synonymes : herd, gather

Expressions courantes : round up cattle, round up sheep, round up livestock

arrêter en masse, rafler

Arrêter ou retenir tout un groupe de personnes, souvent en raison de leur appartenance à ce groupe.

En anglais simple : To arrest or hold a whole group of people, often because they belong to that group.

• Police rounded up dozens of protesters.
• The soldiers rounded up every man in the village.
• Members of the minority group were rounded up without evidence.

Comment l'utiliser : round people up (Soldiers rounded the villagers up and held them overnight.)

Synonymes : arrest, detain

Contraires : release

Expressions courantes : round up suspects, round up protesters, round up people