What's the difference between boisterous and rough?

Boisterous


Definition:

  • (a.) Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
  • (a.) Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
  • (a.) Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
  • (a.) Vehement; excessive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man of Ben van Beurden’s power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers.
  • (2) In a boisterous session of prime minister's questions, Cameron raised questions over Flowers's suitability to run the bank.
  • (3) Her childhood - split between a boisterous outdoorsiness and an intense inner life - was dominated by her overbearing mother, with whom she fought "steadily but reluctantly" until her death.
  • (4) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
  • (5) Less recognizable than its more boisterous counterpart and in some respects less tangible, this side of the problem of countertransference is no less important.
  • (6) Brodick's Ormidale Hotel is a boisterous, Camra-recommended pub with homecooked bar food and a large garden.
  • (7) When she talks about the difference the treatments made in her life, her voice – already cheerful – becomes boisterous.
  • (8) There are 2.46 million eligible voters who will elect 89 members of parliament after a boisterous nine-day campaign.
  • (9) A neighbour, the mother of three boisterous boys, left her family to fend for themselves at 8am and did not return until late in the evening.
  • (10) When he opened the newspapers on Thursday he found that his robust handling of a boisterous budget day had made him a parliamentary superstar in pinstripes.
  • (11) Was it the boisterous intrusion of her tone, the inexcusability of the phrase "lonely only", or the idea of strapping on skates as a euphemism for – what exactly?
  • (12) She described the elder Trump as “very, very difficult … loud and boisterous” and someone Trump was eager to impress.
  • (13) In a format that was three parts talkshow to one part gameshow, the candidates faced probing inquiries as well as random questions pulled from sealed envelopes as they sat almost knee-to-knee with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in front of a boisterous campus audience.
  • (14) The crowds are boisterous, desperate even, and the umpire tells them to shut it.
  • (15) Several attitudes toward this widespread adolescent behaviour are now current--and often in conflict--in our society, including viewing teenage intoxication as a symptom of problem drinking, a warning signal of future alcoholism, a reflection of cultural norms and social changes, and an expression of youthful boisterousness.
  • (16) Tonight we have made a little bit of history,” the white-haired Sanders said at a podium positioned between Wisconsin and United States flags at the outset of his hourlong speech before a boisterous crowd.
  • (17) By the end, the boisterous corner of Evertonians were crowing that his job was in danger.
  • (18) The giant banner unveiled before kickoff on the fondo sur , where Madrid’s most boisterous fans congregate, read: “ Juntos No Hay Imposibles ” (translation: “Together Nothing is Impossible”).
  • (19) On one side it said “Tired doctors make mistakes” and on the other “New contract – DNR.” The mood at the rally, just off Pall Mall, was defiant, boisterous and determined, though interspersed with noisy chants of “Hunt must go, Hunt must go” and “BMA, BMA, BMA”, in support of the organisation Hunt is trying to separate them from.
  • (20) There is a sports room, a little boisterous like a dressing room up and down the country.

Rough


Definition:

  • (n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
  • (n.) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.
  • (n.) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
  • (n.) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.
  • (n.) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
  • (n.) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.
  • (n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
  • (n.) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
  • (n.) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
  • (n.) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.
  • (n.) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
  • (n.) Produced offhand.
  • (n.) Boisterous weather.
  • (n.) A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
  • (adv.) In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
  • (v. t.) To render rough; to roughen.
  • (v. t.) To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
  • (v. t.) To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
  • (2) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
  • (3) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (4) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (5) This heretogeneity occurred mainly as a progressive, decreasing gradient in the first half of this pathway, between the rough endoplasmic reticulum and the mi-cisternae of the Golgi apparatus.
  • (6) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.
  • (7) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
  • (8) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
  • (9) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
  • (10) Electron microscopic evaluation of microsomal fractions showed elements of the plasma membrane, including cilia and microvilli, as well as rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (11) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
  • (12) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
  • (13) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
  • (14) Ultracentrifugally separated HDL2 and HDL3 roughly corresponded to HDL2e and HDL3e, respectively.
  • (15) The locations of these 15 insertion sites correlate well with the roughly estimated locations of five of the DNase I-hypersensitive subregions.
  • (16) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
  • (17) The unique structure we describe is a cytoplasmic organelle which, like annulate lamellae, is closely associated with the endoplasmic reticulum and is presumed to be related to the genesis of rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum in tumor cells.
  • (18) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
  • (19) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
  • (20) That, roughly, was the theme of the Wednesday Play, Cathy Come Home, (BBC1) directed by Kenneth Loach, produced by Tony Garnett.