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roughcast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun roughcast has 2 senses
- roughcast(n = noun.substance) Array - a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls; Array is a kind of plaster
- roughcast(n = noun.artifact) Array - a rough preliminary model; Array is a kind of model, simulation
Derived forms verb roughcast3, verb roughcast1
Verb roughcast has 3 senses
- roughcast(v = verb.creation) Array - shape roughly; Array is one way to forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work
- roughcast(v = verb.contact) Array - apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall" is one way to daub, plaster
- roughcast(v = verb.contact) rough-hew - hew roughly, without finishing the surface; "rough-hew stone or timber" is one way to hew, hew out
Derived form noun roughcast2
Sample sentence:
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Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun roughcast2
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
roughcast, v. t.
- To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities. [1913 Webster]
- To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building. [1913 Webster]
roughcast, n.
- A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
roughcast, n., adj., & v.
--n. plaster of lime and gravel, used on outside walls.
--adj.
1 (of a wall etc.) coated with roughcast.
2 (of a plan etc.) roughly formed, preliminary.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -cast)
1 coat (a wall) with roughcast.
2 prepare (a plan, essay, etc.) in outline.
--n. plaster of lime and gravel, used on outside walls.
--adj.
1 (of a wall etc.) coated with roughcast.
2 (of a plan etc.) roughly formed, preliminary.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -cast)
1 coat (a wall) with roughcast.
2 prepare (a plan, essay, etc.) in outline.
THESAURUS
roughcast
arrested, backward, bat out, block out, botch, broken, bumpy, bungle, carve, cast, cement, chisel, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, concrete, corrugated, create, cross-grained, crude, cut, dash off, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, efform, embryonic, fake up, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge up, grainy, granulated, grout, hew, homespun, horripilant, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inequal, irregular, jolty, jury-rig, knead, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, lay out, lick into shape, linsey-woolsey, mastic, mint, model, mold, mortar, oversimple, parget, patch, patch together, patch up, pimply, pitted, plaster, pocky, potholed, pound out, rank, reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough, rough out, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughhew, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, rutted, rutty, sculpt, sculpture, set, shagged, shaggy, shape, simplistic, slap up, stamp, stucco, stunted, tailor, textured, thermoform, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, toss together, trifle with, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneven, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unkempt, unlabored, unlevel, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, unsmooth, untreated, ununiform, unworked, unwrought, whomp up, wimpled, work
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