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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roughly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broadly/roughly similar
▪ The new employment terms and conditions will be broadly similar to those currently in place.
roughly corresponds
▪ The French ‘baccalauréate’ exam roughly corresponds to English A levels.
roughly/approximately equal
▪ The number of buyers and sellers must be roughly equal before trading begins.
roughly/broadly speaking
▪ These innovations are, roughly speaking, what this book is about.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comparable
▪ Despite the different clock speeds, all three offer roughly comparable performance when used to upgrade a 486 system.
constant
▪ The proportions of managed to tenanted houses has remained roughly constant for the past ten years.
▪ The speed of expansion, after an initial spike, is roughly constant.
▪ As population pressure slackened after 1650 many series stay roughly constant, which conforms with the trend already witnessed in other series.
▪ Overall, there remained a roughly constant difference between the interested and the uninterested.
equal
▪ The relative status and esteem accorded to husband and wife will be roughly equal.
▪ The computed rates of injection of new NEAs for the two mechanisms are roughly equal.
▪ Under the agreement Mondadori was to be split into roughly equal halves, each worth around US$800 million.
▪ If all questions carry the same maximum marks, your answers should be given roughly equal time.
▪ Granulites are like their textural equivalents, granular igneous rocks, in being mosaics of interlocking crystals of roughly equal size.
▪ The books fell into two roughly equal groups: occult studies and lives of famous and infamous men and women through history.
▪ Gender Unlike many local councils, Basildon has a roughly equal proportion of men and women in its workforce.
equivalent
▪ That is roughly equivalent to the gross global product of Earth for the next thirty thousand years.
▪ Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children.
▪ Her snack bar was roughly equivalent to a trust fund.
▪ This was roughly equivalent to an investment of 1.25 pence for every unit of electricity ever generated by nuclear power in Britain.
▪ Being told that one must change to survive is roughly equivalent to being told that one will burn in hell.
▪ Wilson aides said the governor thought that roughly equivalent comparisons could be made between schools and districts using different tests.
▪ The rate of withdrawal over natural replenishment is now roughly equivalent to the flow of the Colorado River.
parallel
▪ The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river.
▪ After all, the two are roughly parallel.
▪ Two roughly parallel ropes on the ground to jump over.
▪ It runs roughly parallel to the Gotthard railway line.
▪ Running north and roughly parallel to the Twyver is the Horsebere Brook.
similar
▪ Grouping readers of roughly similar papers together improves the statistical reliability of our results.
▪ Industrial markets are segmented in a roughly similar fashion, but also include consideration of trade groups and end-use. 27.
▪ Today they're flying low over Salisbury Plain, undertaking roughly similar work.
■ VERB
chop
▪ Roughly chop the pineapple and apricots and quarter the cherries.
▪ Roughly chop the livers and scatter over the duck meat along with the ham.
▪ Roughly chop the watercress and stir into the pan.
correspond
▪ Our own arm bones correspond roughly to the bird wing bones.
▪ These roughly correspond to winter, spring, summer and autumn.
▪ Each number roughly corresponds to a 100°C temperature change, giving a band of 100-600°C.
divide
▪ In the third and fourth years, the work is divided roughly equally between Astronomy and Physics.
▪ This interaction can be roughly divided into teacher-student and student-teacher interaction.
double
▪ This roughly doubled the number of known and treated hypertensives in the practice.
▪ Company sales rose 15 percent last year and have roughly doubled every five years.
▪ This roughly doubles the number of young from a spawning.
▪ Candidates who follow the limits could receive roughly double that amount from each donor.
▪ In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled, with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed.
▪ Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.
▪ A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
▪ Summers and Clark also discovered that unemployment insurance roughly doubles the number of people who stay unemployed for more than three months.
remain
▪ However, it appears from Thomson's calculations that the shares of the elderly and the non-elderly have remained roughly stable.
▪ The proportions of managed to tenanted houses has remained roughly constant for the past ten years.
▪ The two pronuclei remain roughly in step, but each takes its own time.
▪ Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
run
▪ The plane again runs roughly from top left to bottom right.
▪ Ads run roughly $ 200, 000 per 30-second spot.
▪ The argument will run roughly as follows.
▪ The bigger rivers on the plains run roughly west to east.
▪ Suspecting a fuel problem the pilot selected his reserve tanks but the engine continued to run roughly.
▪ The dividing line between them runs roughly from the Caspian to the mouth of the Indus.
▪ An inductivist account might run roughly as follows.
▪ It runs roughly parallel to the Gotthard railway line.
speak
▪ The Upper Bound: Roughly speaking this is the unique local minimum of the gradient of the graph.
▪ Then he spoke roughly once more, shoved the teeth deeper into his pocket and shook his fist at her.
translate
▪ To the uninitiated that roughly translates as a drinking establishment with thumping rock music and brash videos crammed with hordes of fun-seekers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A new kitchen would cost roughly $6,000.
▪ As long as you know roughly how to do it, that's fine.
▪ Jill spends roughly four hours a day working on her book.
▪ Martin makes roughly $150,000 a year.
▪ She roughly pushed me toward the door.
▪ The man was roughly my own age.
▪ Yes, that's roughly the right answer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Indeed this is roughly as far as anyone has got.
▪ Its original alignment was roughly continued towards Castor, however, by a ditched trackway flanked by various enclosure boundaries.
▪ The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
▪ The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.
▪ The piece is a roughly chiselled block of wood with nails knocked into the arms, chest and face.
▪ Theophylline is roughly as potent as caffeine; theobromine is seven times weaker than either.
▪ Under the agreement Mondadori was to be split into roughly equal halves, each worth around US$800 million.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roughly

Roughly \Rough"ly\, adv. In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roughly

c.1300, "ungently, violently," from rough (adj.) + -ly (2). Meaning "approximately, without precision or exactness" is from 1841.

Wiktionary
roughly

adv. 1 In a rough manner. 2 unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely. 3 Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.

WordNet
roughly

  1. adv. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, more or less, around, or so]

  2. with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough" [syn: rough]

  3. with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [syn: rough]

Usage examples of "roughly".

These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.

Meg smelled of shampoo and cheap cosmetics and childhood, and Addle was overwhelmed by the shape and feel of a girl roughly the same age asChloe.

Vaughn loaded the UHF satellite message buoy, roughly the size of a baseball bat, into the aft signal ejector, a small mechanism much like a torpedo tube set into the upper level of the aft compartment.

Giving them a polite nod, Alec tried to hurry past but one caught the edge of his cloak and yanked him roughly into their midst.

Overwhelmed by a sudden, inexplicable fury, he caught Alec by the wrist and shoved him roughly away.

The darkest corner was the bedroom, which had a platform of stone on which rugs were spread, and there was a lower mound of dried mud, roughly curtained off from the rest with two or three red and blue foutahs suspended on ropes made of twisted alfa, or dried grass.

Where Anele pointed, in a notch between slick stones at the lapping edge of the water, lay a roughly triangular patch of fine sand.

The areolas pebbled roughly, contrasting with the delicate smoothness of the skin surrounding it.

The blanket hanging over the doorway was thrust roughly aside, and Ath came panting into the room.

For one thing, the rate at which a nerve impulse travels along an axon varies roughly with the width of the axon.

The next day, in spite of the increased cold, Gerlinda again roughly bade the maidens go down to the shore and wash, refusing to allow them any covering except one rough linen garment.

As they proceeded, he marked roughly on the side of his tin baler, with the point of a pin borrowed from Helen, the form of the coast line.

They produced several oddly shaped, roughly globular tents and some equally odd foot stores, which bn Bem assured Spock he and the others could eat.

From the condition of the iron bars we estimated that the doorway had been sealed up roughly a hundred years ago, when Billard had sole control of the property.

As Bluey ran for it Cat saw some letters roughly painted on the side of the tank: 100LL.