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ROUGHLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

Example:

20 or so people were at the party

Synonyms:

about; approximately; around; close to; just about; more or less; or so; roughly; some

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

With rough motion as over a rough surface

Example:

ride rough

Synonyms:

rough; roughly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

rough (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Sense 3

Meaning:

With roughness or violence ('rough' is an informal variant for 'roughly')

Example:

they treated him rough

Synonyms:

rough; roughly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Pertainym:

rough (ready and able to resort to force or violence)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This seemed to satisfy his master, who flung him down roughly in the bottom of the canoe.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Proxima B is believed roughly Earth-sized and in its solar system's habitable zone, meaning it would have similar gravity to Earth and at least the possibility of liquid water.

(Simulations show planet orbiting Proxima Centauri could have liquid water, Wikinews)

It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs.

(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

On Oct. 26, it will pass through the ecliptic plane - the plane in which Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun - from above at roughly a 40-degree angle.

(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)

In other words, these planets might look as big and bulky as Jupiter, but are roughly a hundred times lighter in terms of mass.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

Green indicates filaments with their magnetic field pointing roughly toward the viewer, and blue indicates filaments with their magnetic fields pointing away.

(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)

It is located roughly three billion kilometres from the central star, roughly equivalent to the distance between Uranus and the Sun.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)

This shows the expansion from the explosion is still continuing about 450 years later, as seen from Earth’s vantage point roughly 10,000 light years away.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

Its lumen is roughly triangular and has average diameter of 2-3 mm.

(Eustachian Tube, NCI Thesaurus)

The size range roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, where many of the fundamental structures of biology are formed, composite materials may take on their distinctive characteristics, and many important physical phenomena are found.

(Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)