What's the difference between beefy and robust?

Beefy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Summerville hinted that Affleck would eventually make for a seriously beefy Batman .
  • (2) Corcoran, an athletic, beefy 6ft 2in, has been scorned, insulted, threatened and sprayed with a hose – manifestations of guilt, he said.
  • (3) Updated at 5.46pm BST 5.38pm BST 3rd over: England 6-0 (Cook 5, Robson 1) Beefy and Athers are discussing last night's dinner, which means we've been here all day.
  • (4) It’s the same hyper-sexualised imagery that feeds gay nightclub advertorials and community events: images of ripped studs and beefy bodies, a focus on aesthetic glory.
  • (5) A number of patients presenting with typical features of this disease, characterized in particular by a beefy-red exuberant appearance of the lesions, have been treated at Shongwe Hospital in Kangwane in the Eastern Transvaal.
  • (6) Its political cartoonist Stephff sketched bald and beefy Secret Service agents with frothing mouths and guns in hand , readily assaulting innocent waiters offering glasses of water to the president.
  • (7) In 86 episodes from 1999 to 2007, in HBO's hit series The Sopranos, the balding, beefy, middle-aged Gandolfini, as Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mafia boss, managed to transcend any stereotyping of Italian-Americans (although the charge was still made) by showing the flawed character's vulnerable side.
  • (8) Real Boxing One of the best-looking sports games on any mobile device, this sees you battling through a 30-fight career mode against 20 beefy boxers, while training your fighter up in between matches.
  • (9) 6.18pm BST 60 min: Huddlestone, after a beefy challenge, gets the first yellow card of the game.
  • (10) Obviously we check with the stump mike and dish out a hefty penalty if he fails to repeat what he actually said (a night out with Beefy, say, or a batting masterclass from Tuffers).
  • (11) Bumble is ex-Accrington Stanley, Beefy ex-Scunthorpe - so of course, Beefy immediately notes the superiority of his career.
  • (12) The gross appearance of the spleens was beefy red without tumor nodules.
  • (13) You may feel that describing your penis as Beefy McManstick or Blue-veined Jack Hammer or The Pink Oboe will add to your incredible sex life and who I am to say otherwise?
  • (14) Updated at 4.20pm BST 4.16pm BST 58th over: Sri Lanka 191-5 (Sangakkara 71, Chandimal 15) Beefy is happy with the variety of England's attack, but Strauss is not, citing only Plunkettas different.
  • (15) Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his beefy, heteronormative examination of sex, published in 1981 on the cusp of the Aids epidemic, was greeted skeptically during the reporting process and with jeers upon publication.
  • (16) Her beefy, mustachioed husband, Pascal, whom she met on a holiday to the Dordogne in 2007, sits by her side protectively, giving her leg the occasional supportive squeeze.
  • (17) Beefy, though, sees Jordan as a skidder and points out that the only batsman to get a score has had four chances.
  • (18) 10.31pm BST Pirates 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st The beefy Adams hits a weak puny ground ball, guess where?
  • (19) They quickly recorded 2009's Brand New Eyes, a beefy, slick rock album that solidified their place in the mainstream.

Robust


Definition:

  • (a.) Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
  • (a.) Violent; rough; rude.
  • (a.) Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (2) While it is true that Clinton’s favorability rating is languishing among all voters, her favorability among Democrats is as robust as Biden’s, at nearly 75% .
  • (3) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
  • (4) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
  • (5) Despite their wide dispersion, Vmax and the stereological determinations correlated strongly at 2 mo of age, confirming that Vmax is a robust indicator of the surface area of the air-blood barrier.
  • (6) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
  • (7) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
  • (8) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
  • (9) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
  • (10) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
  • (11) An error and covariances analysis shows that the method is robust and accurate enough for autonomous navigation.
  • (12) While weak in variance-explained terms, the relationships show the predicted patterns are robust and are independent of a large number of control variables.
  • (13) The WAIS-R proved most effective with the biosocial model, evidencing a robust and clinically meaningful pattern of results.
  • (14) It moved new synthetic drugs from a legal grey area to a well-defined and robust regulatory framework.
  • (15) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.” British car sales zoom ahead, but for how long?
  • (16) While robust discussions are under way across the nation, in Congress, and at the White House, the question for this court is whether the government's bulk telephony metadata program is lawful.
  • (17) In these studies, disruption of cholinergic transmission produced robust impairments that increased with retention interval duration, but could be observed even at the shortest intervals tested.
  • (18) Next to robust performance, the most attractive feature of the controller is its capability to optimize the quantity of infused medication without introducing a bias in the blood pressure level; a problem that existed in some of the other adaptive control strategies that have been proposed previously.
  • (19) Tools for this are beginning to emerge, but further work to provide solutions and evidence to develop a robust foundation for managing uncertainty is required.
  • (20) Legislation is in place to ban so called ‘legal highs’ and we will continue to work with police to disrupt supply chains and take robust action against anyone found supplying or using new psychoactive substances in prisons.

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