roughly

«roughly» in Mova's school dictionary: about, not exactly: roughly 100 people — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• Roughly one animal kind in four is a beetle.
• Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, roughly 600 are venomous and only about 200 are really dangerous to people.
• Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat.
• People fart roughly 10 to 20 times a day, which is normal.
• A compass needle points roughly north.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «roughly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.