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roughness

/ruhf/US // rʌf //UK // (rʌf) //

粗糙度,粗糙程度,粗糙性,粗糙

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    rough·er, rough·est.

    • : having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
    • : shaggy or coarse: a dog with a rough coat.
    • : steep or uneven and covered with high grass, brush, trees, stones, etc.: to hunt over rough country.
    • : acting with or characterized by violence: Boxing is a rough sport.
    • : characterized by unnecessary violence or infractions of the rules: It was a rough prize fight.
    • : violently disturbed or agitated; turbulent, as water or the air: a rough sea.
    • : having a violently irregular motion; uncomfortably or dangerously uneven: The plane had a rough flight in the storm.
    • : stormy or tempestuous, as wind or weather.
    • : sharp or harsh: a rough temper.
    • : unmannerly or rude: his rough and churlish manner; They exchanged rough words.
    • : disorderly or riotous: a rough mob.
    • : difficult or unpleasant: to have a rough time of it.
    • : harsh to the ear; grating or jarring, as sounds.
    • : harsh to the taste; sharp or astringent: a rough wine.
    • : coarse, as food.
    • : lacking culture or refinement: a rough, countrified manner.
    • : without refinements, luxuries, or ordinary comforts or conveniences: rough camping.
    • : requiring exertion or strength rather than intelligence or skill: rough manual labor.
    • : not elaborated, perfected, or corrected; unpolished, as language, verse, or style: a rough draft.
    • : made or done without any attempt at exactness, completeness, or thoroughness; approximate or tentative: a rough guess.
    • : crude, unwrought, nonprocessed, or unprepared: rough rice.
    • : Phonetics. uttered with aspiration; having the sound of h; aspirated.
n.名词 noun
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    • : something that is rough, especially rough ground.
    • : Golf. any part of the course bordering the fairway on which the grass, weeds, etc., are not trimmed.
    • : the unpleasant or difficult part of anything.
    • : anything in its crude or preliminary form, as a drawing.
    • : Chiefly British. a rowdy; ruffian.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : in a rough manner; roughly.
v.有主动词 verb
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    roughed, rough·ing.

    • : to make rough; roughen.
    • : to give a beating to, manhandle, or subject to physical violence: The mob roughed up the speaker.
    • : to subject to some rough, preliminary process of working or preparation: to rough off boards.
    • : to sketch roughly or in outline: to rough out a diagram; to rough in the conversation of a novel.
    • : Sports. to subject to unnecessary physical abuse, as in blocking or tackling: The team was penalized 15 yards for roughing the kicker.
v.无主动词 verb
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    roughed, rough·ing.

    • : to become rough, as a surface.
    • : to behave roughly.

Phrases

  • rough and ready
  • rough and tumble
  • rough it
  • rough on, be
  • rough out
  • rough up
  • diamond in the rough
  • ride roughshod over
  • take the rough with the smooth
  • when the going gets rough

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Examples

  • Geometry also predicted that if you fragmented a flat surface randomly, it would break into rough rectangles, and if you did the same in three dimensions, it would produce rough cubes.

  • It’s been a rough few weeks for singer John Legend and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen, who suffered the devastating loss of their third child in September.

  • That’s, unfortunately, just the reality of using limited data to come up with a rough estimate of a disease’s overall spread.

  • “This time next year we’ll be laughing,” her father liked to say, whenever the family hit a rough patch.

  • Curl had some rough moments, too, as he was beat on a touchdown by Evan Engram, but the rookie out of Arkansas showed promise.

  • If you call this roughness, I'm sorry, but this Tayyip Erdogan won't change.

  • After his ejection for unnecessary roughness, Suh also suffered a devastating blow to his reputation.

  • But for some there remains a brutality here, a roughness born of systematic, racialized oppression and desperate poverty.

  • The mere quality of smoothness on the canvas is of no consequence or value, any more than the mere quality of roughness is.

  • Whether that roughness is a thing to be got rid of or not is something for the painter to decide for himself.

  • Roughness of manner drives our friends from us, and prevents many from becoming friends.

  • The roughness of the cheeks gave him an extremely agreeable sensation, and he sought every opportunity of renewing this sensation.

  • And talk they did, as well as the roughness of the road and the speed at which they must travel would allow.