rough out
1rough-out — roughˈ out noun A leather or a leather article, having the reverse side from the grain outermost • • • Main Entry: ↑rough …
2rough out — [v] do preliminary design adumbrate, block out, chalk, characterize, delineate, draft, outline, plan, skeleton, sketch, suggest; concepts 36,79,174 …
3rough out — verb prepare in preliminary or sketchy form (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑rough in, ↑rough • Hypernyms: ↑prepare • Verb Frames: Somebody s something * * * …
4rough out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms rough out : present tense I/you/we/they rough out he/she/it roughs out present participle roughing out past tense roughed out past participle roughed out to produce a drawing or piece of writing without… …
5rough out — PHRASAL VERB If you rough out a drawing or an idea, you draw or write the main features of it before you do it in detail. [V P n (not pron)] Wood roughed out a possible framework for their story. [Also V n P] Syn: sketch …
6rough out — Synonyms and related words: adumbrate, bat out, block in, block out, botch, brief, bungle, carve, cast, chalk out, characterize, chisel, create, cut, dash off, delineate, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, draft, efform, fake up …
7rough out — verb to produce (a plan, diagram etc.) in rough …
8rough out — /ˌrʌf aυt/ verb to make a draft or a general design ● The finance director roughed out a plan of investment …
9rough out — /ˌrʌf aυt/ verb to make a draft or a general design of something, which may be changed later ● The finance director roughed out a plan of investment …
10rough — [ruf] adj. [ME ruh, rugh < OE ruh, akin to Ger rauh < IE * reuk < base * reu , to tear, tear out (> RUG, ROTTEN): prob. basic sense “hairy, woolly”] 1. a) not smooth or level; having bumps, projections, etc.; uneven [a rough surface]… …
