the word for 08.01.2010 is ROUND.

I knew straight away what image l would use today for the word ROUND. The snowman built by the Australian girls on our estate. It has a round head and round seeds for his mouth. He also has round buttons for his eyes and a piece of round carrot for his nose. Everytime l look at this snowman, it just makes me smile!

round |round|adjective1 shaped like or approximately like a circle or cylinder : she was seated at a small, round table.• having a curved shape like part of the circumference of a circle :round arches.2 shaped like or approximately like a sphere : a round glass ball | the grapes are small and round.• (of a person's body) plump.• having a curved surface with no sharp or jagged projections : the boulders look round and smooth.• figurative (of a voice) rich and mellow; not harsh.3 [ attrib. ] (of a number) altered for convenience of expression or calculation, for example to the nearest whole number or multiple of ten or five : the size of the fleet is given in round numbers.• (of a number) convenient for calculation, typically through being a multiple of ten.• used to show that a figure has been completely and exactly reached: a round dozen.• archaic (of a sum of money) considerable : his business is worth a round sum to me.4 archaic (of a person or their manner of speaking) not omitting or disguising anything; frank and truthful : she berated him in good round terms.noun1 a circular piece of a particular substance : cut the pastry into rounds.• a thick disk of beef cut from the haunch as a joint.2 an act of visiting each of a number of people or places : she did the rounds of her family to say goodbye | he made the rounds of the city's churches.• a tour of inspection, typically repeated regularly, in which the safety or well-being of those visited is checked : the doctor is just making his rounds in the wards.3 one of a sequence of sessions or groups of related actions or events, typically such that development or progress can be seen between one group and another : the two sides held three rounds of talks.• a division of a contest such as a boxing or wrestling match.• one of a succession of stages in a sporting contest or other competition, in each of which more candidates are eliminated : the playoffs in the second round.• an act of playing all the holes in a golf course once : Eileen enjoys the occasional round of golf.4 a regularly recurring sequence of activities or functions : their lives were a daily round of housework and laundry.• Music a song for three or more unaccompanied voices or parts, each singing the same theme but starting one after another, at the same pitch or in octaves; a simple canon.• a set of drinks bought for all the members of a group, typically as part of a sequence in which each member in turn buys such a set : it's my round.5 a measured quantity or number of something, in particular• the amount of ammunition needed to fire one shot.• Archery a fixed number of arrows shot from a fixed distance.verb [ trans. ]1 pass and go around (something) so as to move on in a changed direction : the ship rounded the cape and sailed north.2 alter (a number) to one less exact but more convenient for calculations: we'll round the weight up to the nearest pound | the committee rounded down the figure | let's just round it off to an even ten dollars.3 give a round shape to : a lathe that rounded chair legs.• [ intrans. ] become circular in shape : her eyes rounded in dismay.• Phonetics pronounce (a vowel) with the lips narrowed and protruded.DERIVATIVESderivatively |dəˈrɪvəd1vli| adverbORIGIN late Middle English (in the adjective sense [having the power to draw off,] and in the noun sense [a word derived from another] ): fromFrench dérivatif, -ive, from Latin derivativus, from derivare (seederive ).