roughly
part of speech
adverb (roughly)
meaning for a pupil
1) Roughly means about, not exactly: roughly 100 people. tree →
2) Roughly means in a rough, not gentle way: He pushed me roughly. tree →
3) Roughly also means not carefully or neatly: roughly cut pieces. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means harshly, as Joseph spoke to his brothers when he hid who he was. Interpretation: Commentators say Joseph spoke sternly to test his brothers and see whether they had changed. In the primary lessons: In maths, «roughly» signals an estimate: rounding numbers to get a close answer quickly (398 + 205 is roughly 400 + 200 = 600). In science, measurements are often roughly given. In cooking: roughly chop the carrots. In behaviour lessons: do not play roughly with small children or pets. Phrases: roughly speaking, roughly the same, roughly equal.
examples
- 'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. (Torah GEN.42.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them: 'Whence come ye?' And they said: 'From the land of Canaan to buy food.' (Torah GEN.42.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then said David to Jonathan: 'Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?' (Prophets 1SA.20.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, (Writings 2CH.10.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him; (Prophets 1KI.12.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- There were roughly 30 children at the party. tree →
- 49 is roughly 50. tree →
- Do not treat the puppy roughly. tree →
- Roughly chop the onion into big pieces. tree →
- The trip takes roughly two hours. tree →
- The two bags weigh roughly the same. tree →
- He grabbed the ball roughly. tree →
- Roughly speaking, half the class walks to school. tree →
- In this place I can only roughly summarise my results. tree →
note
Pronounced RUFF-lee (gh sounds like f). In maths, «roughly», «about», «approximately» and «estimate» all mean you may round; the symbol ≈ means «is roughly equal to».
In the corpora
- 'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
- Then said David to Jonathan: 'Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?'
- And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him;
- And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
- Roughly one animal kind in four is a beetle.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «roughly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.