adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broadly/roughly similar
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The new employment terms and conditions will be broadly similar to those currently in place.
roughly corresponds
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The French ‘baccalauréate’ exam roughly corresponds to English A levels.
roughly/approximately equal
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The number of buyers and sellers must be roughly equal before trading begins.
roughly/broadly speaking
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These innovations are, roughly speaking, what this book is about.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comparable
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Despite the different clock speeds, all three offer roughly comparable performance when used to upgrade a 486 system.
constant
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The proportions of managed to tenanted houses has remained roughly constant for the past ten years.
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The speed of expansion, after an initial spike, is roughly constant .
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As population pressure slackened after 1650 many series stay roughly constant , which conforms with the trend already witnessed in other series.
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Overall, there remained a roughly constant difference between the interested and the uninterested.
equal
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The relative status and esteem accorded to husband and wife will be roughly equal .
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The computed rates of injection of new NEAs for the two mechanisms are roughly equal .
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Under the agreement Mondadori was to be split into roughly equal halves, each worth around US$800 million.
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If all questions carry the same maximum marks, your answers should be given roughly equal time.
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Granulites are like their textural equivalents, granular igneous rocks, in being mosaics of interlocking crystals of roughly equal size.
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The books fell into two roughly equal groups: occult studies and lives of famous and infamous men and women through history.
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Gender Unlike many local councils, Basildon has a roughly equal proportion of men and women in its workforce.
equivalent
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That is roughly equivalent to the gross global product of Earth for the next thirty thousand years.
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Consequently, they are roughly equivalent to the transracially adopted children.
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Her snack bar was roughly equivalent to a trust fund.
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This was roughly equivalent to an investment of 1.25 pence for every unit of electricity ever generated by nuclear power in Britain.
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Being told that one must change to survive is roughly equivalent to being told that one will burn in hell.
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Wilson aides said the governor thought that roughly equivalent comparisons could be made between schools and districts using different tests.
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The rate of withdrawal over natural replenishment is now roughly equivalent to the flow of the Colorado River.
parallel
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The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river.
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After all, the two are roughly parallel .
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Two roughly parallel ropes on the ground to jump over.
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It runs roughly parallel to the Gotthard railway line.
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Running north and roughly parallel to the Twyver is the Horsebere Brook.
similar
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Grouping readers of roughly similar papers together improves the statistical reliability of our results.
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Industrial markets are segmented in a roughly similar fashion, but also include consideration of trade groups and end-use. 27.
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Today they're flying low over Salisbury Plain, undertaking roughly similar work.
■ VERB
chop
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Roughly chop the pineapple and apricots and quarter the cherries.
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Roughly chop the livers and scatter over the duck meat along with the ham.
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Roughly chop the watercress and stir into the pan.
correspond
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Our own arm bones correspond roughly to the bird wing bones.
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These roughly correspond to winter, spring, summer and autumn.
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Each number roughly corresponds to a 100°C temperature change, giving a band of 100-600°C.
divide
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In the third and fourth years, the work is divided roughly equally between Astronomy and Physics.
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This interaction can be roughly divided into teacher-student and student-teacher interaction.
double
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This roughly doubled the number of known and treated hypertensives in the practice.
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Company sales rose 15 percent last year and have roughly doubled every five years.
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This roughly doubles the number of young from a spawning.
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Candidates who follow the limits could receive roughly double that amount from each donor.
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In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled , with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed.
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Allow the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, until it has roughly doubled in size.
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A techie's delight. 6 SuperStar Pro claims to roughly double the capacity of your hard disk.
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Summers and Clark also discovered that unemployment insurance roughly doubles the number of people who stay unemployed for more than three months.
remain
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However, it appears from Thomson's calculations that the shares of the elderly and the non-elderly have remained roughly stable.
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The proportions of managed to tenanted houses has remained roughly constant for the past ten years.
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The two pronuclei remain roughly in step, but each takes its own time.
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Homeothermy or Homoiothermy Temperature regulation in tachymetabolic species in which core temperatures remain roughly steady despite ambient temperature changes.
run
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The plane again runs roughly from top left to bottom right.
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Ads run roughly $ 200, 000 per 30-second spot.
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The argument will run roughly as follows.
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The bigger rivers on the plains run roughly west to east.
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Suspecting a fuel problem the pilot selected his reserve tanks but the engine continued to run roughly .
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The dividing line between them runs roughly from the Caspian to the mouth of the Indus.
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An inductivist account might run roughly as follows.
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It runs roughly parallel to the Gotthard railway line.
speak
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The Upper Bound: Roughly speaking this is the unique local minimum of the gradient of the graph.
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Then he spoke roughly once more, shoved the teeth deeper into his pocket and shook his fist at her.
translate
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To the uninitiated that roughly translates as a drinking establishment with thumping rock music and brash videos crammed with hordes of fun-seekers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A new kitchen would cost roughly $6,000.
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As long as you know roughly how to do it, that's fine.
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Jill spends roughly four hours a day working on her book.
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Martin makes roughly $150,000 a year.
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She roughly pushed me toward the door.
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The man was roughly my own age.
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Yes, that's roughly the right answer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Indeed this is roughly as far as anyone has got.
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Its original alignment was roughly continued towards Castor, however, by a ditched trackway flanked by various enclosure boundaries.
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The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
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The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.
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The piece is a roughly chiselled block of wood with nails knocked into the arms, chest and face.
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Theophylline is roughly as potent as caffeine; theobromine is seven times weaker than either.
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Under the agreement Mondadori was to be split into roughly equal halves, each worth around US$800 million.