rough

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I own my own servers and lease a full rack and I serve roughly 1 billion page impressions per month.

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Quick take

the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rough gathered in one view.

noun

the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

verb

prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

adjective

having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rough.

noun

the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

verb

prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

adjective

having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

adjective

(of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"

adjective

not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"

adjective

full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"

adjective

violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"

adjective

unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"

See also: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy

adjective

ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"

adjective

of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

adjective

causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride"

See also: rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy

adjective

not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"

adjective

not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"

adjective

not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"

adjective

unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"

adjective

unkind or cruel or uncivil; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer"

adverb

with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"

adverb

with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough"

Example sentences

I own my own servers and lease a full rack and I serve roughly 1 billion page impressions per month.

It's a nice editor--really nice, actually--but it has a lot of rough edges to it.

Back in the day, I'd be able to see how many points it had as a rough indicator of how many other people would have found a PHP port useful.

> the problem is that if you promise a manager somethingThe real problem is thinking of "estimates" as "promises" when really they're rough guesses.

I average around 130 megabits per second of transfer - constantly, peaking at 150mbps I'm transferring roughly 40 terabytes of data per month.

He didn't steal your css or images, and though you might feel rough about it, it doesn't make it theft as you are putting it again and again.> Just wait until Svbtle is finished and open to the public.

And so perhaps there should be some weight given to the fact that a worker of a company that's a competitor to Joyent just quit, arguably due to Joyent's rough play -- if Joyent had approached the matter differently, carefully, sensitively, there likely would have been a different conclusion to this.

The top partners might want to stick with the firm through a rough patch, but they have an enormous game-theoretic incentive to jump ship because if the firm does implode, the folks that don't leave will be left holding the bag.[2] Practice areas ebb and flow, so you need enough lawyers to support diversified counter-cyclical practices and to be able to cross sell clients internally.