Definitions

1. Verb phrase:
   • To go on a round, to patrol: To move through a designated area, especially as part of a regular duty, to monitor for security, safety, or inspection purposes. This often applies to police, guards, or watchmen.
   • To make one's rounds: To travel along a fixed route to check on things, such as a doctor visiting patients or a supervisor checking on work.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Cảnh sát đi tuần trên các con phố vào ban đêm. (The police patrol the streets at night.)
  • Bảo vệ phải đi tuần quanh nhà máy mỗi giờ. (The guard must go on a round of the factory every hour.)
  • Bác sĩ đi tuần để thăm khám cho các bệnh nhân nặng. (The doctor makes his rounds to examine the critical patients.)

Advanced Usage

• "đi tuần tra": This is a more formal and specific variant meaning "to patrol," often used in military or official security contexts.
  • Lính biên phòng đi tuần tra dọc theo biên giới. (The border guards patrol along the frontier.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tuần tra (v/n): To patrol; a patrol. This is the nominalized form of the action.
  • Đội tuần tra đã phát hiện kẻ đột nhập. (The patrol team discovered the intruder.)
• Vòng tuần tra (n): Patrol route/round.
  • Anh ấy đang hoàn thành vòng tuần tra cuối cùng. (He is completing his final patrol round.)

Synonyms

• Kiểm tra (v): To inspect, to check. (Focuses more on examination than movement.)
• Canh gác (v): To guard, to stand watch. (Focuses more on staying at a post.)
• Đi vòng quanh kiểm soát: To go around controlling/checking. (A descriptive phrase.)

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Đi một vòng tuần tra: To go on a patrol round.
  • Trước khi hết ca, tôi phải đi một vòng tuần tra nữa. (Before my shift ends, I have to go on one more patrol round.)

Related Idioms

• Mắt như mắt tuần tra: Eyes like a patrol's eyes. (An idiom describing someone who is very observant and vigilant.)
  • Anh ấy nhìn cái gì cũng thấy, mắt như mắt tuần tra vậy. (He notices everything; his eyes are like a patrol's eyes.)

1. Go on a round, go on patrol