What's the difference between brute and coarse?

Brute


Definition:

  • (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
  • (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
  • (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
  • (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
  • (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
  • (n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
  • (v. t.) To report; to bruit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (2) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
  • (3) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
  • (4) Suddenly, we were back in the age of ropes and pulleys and brute strength to deliver her into the hands of the mechanised world.
  • (5) Putin is a cunning negotiator with the skills of a KGB colonel, varying between brute force, charm and obfuscation.
  • (6) It adds a savage realism that even Caravaggio never thought of – it would take two women to kill this brute.
  • (7) To gain access to users' passwords, Gnosis used what is known as a brute force attack.
  • (8) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
  • (9) (Can you make it overpaid Yentob's last interview too, ask online brutes.)
  • (10) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
  • (11) It needed stamina, ice-in-the-veins bravery, cunning, cool judgment and brute determination.
  • (12) With 64 bits, the address space is so vast that it's not practical to use brute-force scanning.
  • (13) Intelligence rather than brute force will win the day in this beautifully executed episode.
  • (14) Finding the gene for myotonic muscular dystrophy is requiring the brute force approach of cloning several million bases of DNA, identifying expressed sequences, and characterizing candidate genes.
  • (15) The brute luck of birth thus becomes essential to future housing wealth.
  • (16) If such state-sponsored farce in one of southeast Asia’s most modern capitals suggests there is panic beneath the junta’s brute power, its desperate need for its actions to be seen in a positive light confirms it.
  • (17) Sell Churchill to the survivors of Gallipoli, if you can, and Adam Smith to those who have suffered the brute end of privatisation.
  • (18) The film takes a bleak view of US expansionism, depicting some pioneers as cheats, brutes and bandits, I say.
  • (19) 23, 544-548] or a brute-force search when only a small part of the molecule was used as a model.
  • (20) Photograph: Alamy The brute force and cunning that elevated our royal family above its competitors is now lost in the mists of time.

Coarse


Definition:

  • (superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.
  • (superl.) Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross; indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Epithelial thymoma is characterized by coarse-fiber stroma, perivascular grouping of cell elements and the lack of glycogen in them.
  • (2) Foveal involvement included coarse foveal granularity, thinning of the foveal retinal pigment epithelium, increasing encirclement of the fovea with focal areas of atrophy, and minimal macular drusen.
  • (3) In 11 of these 20 patients, visual sensitivity to detail of medium coarseness was markedly degraded, even though sensitivity to both coarse and fine detail was unimpaired.
  • (4) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
  • (5) Characteristic coarse facial features and shortness of stature were observed in all cases.
  • (6) The pulp cavity is reduced in size with age (maturation stage), in which the characteristic three vascular layers are changed into a one-layer coarse terminal capillary network which converges directly with the main venules.
  • (7) (3) Their operative findings were different from ordinary Graves' goiters in that colors of the goiter were yellow-red or gray-red, surface was rough and coarse, consistency was firm, and adhesions with the adjacent connective tissue were noted.
  • (8) Attempts were made to purify the LH-releasing substance extracted from the leaves of Avena sativa by means of two-step chromatographic procedures using a weakly acidic ion-exchange resin (CG-50,type II) and DEAE-Sephadex A-25 (coarse) with successful results.
  • (9) First-time measurements of the potentially toxic inorganic species of arsenic (arsenite and arsenate) have been obtained in fine (less than 2.5 microns AD) and coarse (greater than 2.5 microns AD) atmospheric particles in the Los Angeles area.
  • (10) An abnormal great number of microtubules and coarsed fibers were frequently randomly scattered throughout the cytoplasmic droplet.
  • (11) Motorized linear slides used as micromanipulators for biological use suffer from 3 problems: vibration at low speed, poor ergonomic design of the controller and slow coarse positioning.
  • (12) Each antibody stained 2 populations of cortical nonpyramidal neurons: (1) A small number of large, intensely stained cells that give rise to long, coarsely beaded processes; (2) a relatively large number of small, lightly stained cells that are embedded in dense plexuses of stained punctate profiles.
  • (13) In the Pagalunggan subdistrict, all females used uniodised salt with 17.6% using fine salt, 20% using coarse salt and the remainder using both fine and coarse salt.
  • (14) Thygeson's keratitis is characterized by a coarse punctate epithelial keratitis with almost no hyperaemia of the conjunctiva.
  • (15) The particles selected by CYBEST as "abnormal cells" at the stage of coarse scanning were examined by direct microscopy to determine whether they were actural cells or not.
  • (16) Fine wrinkling, coarse wrinkling, sallowness, looseness, and hyperpigmentation were significantly improved with tretinoin therapy.
  • (17) Coarse, linear densities are also observed, and pleural effusion is seen in many patients.
  • (18) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
  • (19) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
  • (20) In women who received free-silicone injections, coarse calcifications developed in three, and gross nodularity with calcified silicone granulomas developed in one.