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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#m1)

2) Roughly means in a rough, not gentle way: He pushed me roughly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#m2)

3) Roughly also means not carefully or neatly: roughly cut pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x1)
- 49 is roughly 50. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x2)
- Do not treat the puppy roughly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x3)
- Roughly chop the onion into big pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x4)
- The trip takes roughly two hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x5)
- The two bags weigh roughly the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x6)
- He grabbed the ball roughly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x7)
- Roughly speaking, half the class walks to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x8)
- In this place I can only roughly summarise my results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs/1/)
- [Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, roughly 600 are venomous and only about 200 are really dangerous to people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/19/)
- [Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn/4/)
- [People fart roughly 10 to 20 times a day, which is normal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath/15/)
- [A compass needle points roughly north.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roughly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roughly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.