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We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.
Steve Burns

Meaning of "roughly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROUGHLY

roughly  [ˈrʌflɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROUGHLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Roughly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ROUGHLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Roughness

Roughness may refer to: ▪ Surface roughness, the roughness of a surface ▪ International Roughness Index, the roughness of a road ▪ Hydraulic roughness, the roughness of land and waterway features ▪ Roughness in psychoacoustics refers to the level of dissonance. ▪ The 'roughness' of a line or surface, measured numerically by the Hausdorff dimension ▪ A typical parameter that has been used to quantify the quality of a surface topography is the surface roughness, which is represented by the arithmetic mean value, Ra, the quadratic mean, Rq, and the maximum roughness height, Rt. ▪ Roughness/resel, the resel/roughness of a image/volume.

Definition of roughly in the English dictionary

The first definition of roughly in the dictionary is without being exact or fully authenticated; approximately. Other definition of roughly is in a clumsy, coarse, or violent manner. Roughly is also in a crude or primitive manner.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROUGHLY


aloofly
əˈluːflɪ
beautifully
ˈbjuːtɪflɪ
bluffly
ˈblʌflɪ
briefly
ˈbriːflɪ
chiefly
ˈtʃiːflɪ
Chifley
ˈtʃɪflɪ
deafly
ˈdɛflɪ
gruffly
ˈɡrʌflɪ
housewifely
ˈhaʊsˌwaɪflɪ
liefly
ˈliːflɪ
rifely
ˈraɪflɪ
ruffly
ˈrʌflɪ
safely
ˈseɪflɪ
sniffly
ˈsnɪflɪ
snuffly
ˈsnʌflɪ
stiffly
ˈstɪflɪ
toughly
ˈtʌflɪ
unsafely
ʌnˈseɪflɪ
unwifely
ʌnˈwaɪflɪ
wifely
ˈwaɪflɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROUGHLY

rough-hewn
rough-legged buzzard
rough-spoken
roughage
roughback
roughcast
roughcaster
roughen
roughened
rougher
roughhouse
roughhousing
roughie
roughies
roughish
roughleg
roughneck
roughness
roughrider
roughshod

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROUGHLY

childishly
deathly
earthly
fiendishly
foolishly
freshly
harshly
highly
Hooghly
lavishly
monthly
muchly
nighly
richly
sluggishly
smoothly
stylishly
teughly
thoroughly
throughly

Synonyms and antonyms of roughly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROUGHLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «roughly» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of roughly

Translation of «roughly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROUGHLY

Find out the translation of roughly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of roughly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «roughly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

粗暴地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aproximadamente
570 millions of speakers

English

roughly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मोटे तौर पर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بِقَسْوَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грубо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bruscamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মোটামুটিভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

approximativement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kira-kira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ungefähr
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

およそ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대략
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kira-kira
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thô bạo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுமார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंदाजे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kabaca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pressappoco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

z grubsza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

різко
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu brutalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βίαια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongeveer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ungefär
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

omtrent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roughly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROUGHLY»

The term «roughly» is very widely used and occupies the 10.285 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROUGHLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roughly

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10 QUOTES WITH «ROUGHLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word roughly.
1
Ryan Adams
When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.
2
Richard V. Allen
The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.
3
Mark Barrowcliffe
With a rescue dog, you take what's at the centre as long as it roughly fits the bill. When you buy a dog from a breeder, you can choose everything from its personality to how shiny its coat is.
4
H. G. Bissinger
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
5
Neill Blomkamp
If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.
6
William C. Bryant
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
7
Steve Burns
We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.
8
Steve Carlton
To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.
9
Alan Coren
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
10
John Cornyn
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUGHLY»

Discover the use of roughly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to roughly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Artificial Intelligence with Uncertainty
In a word, means that x may belong to X according to R, and means that x definitely belongs to X according to R. xX xRX ∈⇔∈ xX x RX ∈⇔ ∈ ∈ ∈ ∈ ∈ Roughly equality: let K= (U, R) be a knowledge base. X, YUandR ind(K): ⊆ ∈ 1.
Deyi Li, Yi Du, 2007
2
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: An Underwater Tour of ...
In Verne's context, 600 feet cable length 0° centigrade = freezing water centigrade 37° centigrade = human body temperature 100° centigrade = boiling water 6 feet fathom Roughly 1/28 of an ounce gram Roughly 1/28,000 of an ounce ...
Jules Verne, 2006
3
U.S. Exports: Schedule E commodity by country
2471080 WESTERN RED CEDAR LOGS AND TIMBER, IN THE ROUGH, SPLIT, HEWN, OR ROUGHLY SIDED, ETC MBF CANAOA CHINA M KOR REP JAPAN OTH CTY TOTAL 1 444 620 18 2 082 520 384 14 918 1 298 2 977 6 170 18 765  ...
‎1981
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Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and ...
For Klein, the brain mutation responsible for language occurred roughly 50,000 years ago and probably in Kenya, allowing our species to spread out and conquer, resulting in the Upper Paleolithic revolution. During the Middle Paleolithic, ...
David N. Stamos, 2011
5
Cold-rolled Steel Products from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, ...
In the case of China, a comparison of the first month preceding the filing of the petitions (i.e. September 2001) versus the following month (i.e. October 2001) indicates roughly an 81 percent increase in subject import volume; furthermore, ...
6
Papers on Urban Affairs, 2003
enrollment size of roughly 800 students, this figure suggests that the average Chicago elementary school only spent $85,600 per year on these programs in 1995. Schools spent substantially less on foreign language, but nearly as much on ...
William G. Gale, Janet Rothenberg Pack, 2010
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Impacts of Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction ...
As an illustration, the data indicate that U.S. primary steel production is roughly 1.2 times more fossil fuel intense than Canadian steel production and the carbon content of the fossil fuel mix into U.S. plants exceeds that into Canadian plants by  ...
Arthur M. Wiese, 1998
8
Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas
Prior to the Medieval Warm Period was the Dark Age Cold Period, roughly 600— 900 AD. Prior to that was the Roman Warm Period, extending roughly from 200 BC to 600 AD. Prior to that existed an unnamed cold period, roughly 600-200 BC,  ...
Andrew Bernstein, 2011
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Creativity and Convention: The Pragmatics of Everyday ...
Familiar idioms: representation and processing The crucial thing about idioms is that they are generally used to convey roughly the same meaning in different situations. We may conclude from this that, in interpreting an utterance containing  ...
Rosa E. Vega Moreno, 2007
10
Free Will and Luck
Desires to A very soon, or to A, beginning very soon, in this sense of ''very soon,'' are roughly proximal action-desires. I have been using a (roughly) proximal urge to flex as an example of something that might be indicated by type II RPs ...
Alfred R. Mele, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROUGHLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term roughly is used in the context of the following news items.
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July 20, 2015 - Roughly 100 ambitious dancers auditioned at Bankers Life Fieldhouse to become a member of the 2015-16 Indiana Pacemates. Frank McGrath. «Pacers.com, Jul 15»
2
Roughly 50 Sharks Seen Swimming in Shallow Water
An estimated 50 sharks were seen swimming in knee-deep water near Selsey, England, on Wednesday. Watch raw footage of the sharks. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
WYDOT plans I-80 lane closures roughly 36 miles west of Laramie
The Wyoming Department of Transportation advises travelers that closures are scheduled on Interstate 80 west of Laramie late Monday-early Tuesday. «Laramie Boomerang, Jul 15»
4
First Canadian cellphone customer paid roughly $10000 a year
In those early years, his annual bills amounted to roughly $10,000. "This way you had the freedom of doing things and you weren't tied down," he says now from ... «Toronto Sun, Jun 15»
5
Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276000 In Court …
Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit ... «TechCrunch, Jun 15»
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Fire burns trees, roughly 20 acres near Moses Lake on Sunday night
MOSES LAKE - An outside fired burned roughly 20 acres along the hillside by state Route 17 near Moses Lake Sunday night. Grant County Fire District 5 ... «iFIBER One News, Jun 15»
7
Severance bill for outgoing Tory staffers roughly $4 million
EDMONTON - Alberta taxpayers are on the hook for roughly $4 million in severance payments after more than 100 Progressive Conservative political staffers ... «Edmonton Journal, May 15»
8
Bill and Hillary Clinton made roughly 25 million in speeches since …
Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton earned more than $25 million delivering 104 speeches since the beginning of last year, according to a ... «Politico, May 15»
9
Map: Where the roughly $5 billion in Obamacare aid to the states went
Almost half the state health exchanges set up through Obamacare are struggling over their future, despite receiving billions of dollars in federal aid to gain their ... «Washington Post, May 15»
10
US Intel Chief: Roughly 40 Americans Have Returned From Syria
About 40 Americans have returned from the jihadist battlefields of Syria — but they don't pose a threat to American security, Director of National Intelligence ... «TIME, Mar 15»

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