What's the difference between chunky and rotund?

Chunky


Definition:

  • (a.) Short and thick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
  • (2) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
  • (3) Capote clearly identified with this "chunky, misshapen child-man".
  • (4) The trick is that the service will run, not along thin telephone fibres, but chunky electricity cable, a centimetre thick.
  • (5) A Nestlé Kit Kat Chunky Collection Giant Egg was advertised at £7.49 for 10 days in January this year at Ocado, then sold on offer at £5 for 51 days.
  • (6) Some have voices so wispy that they are indistinguishable from the chunky backing tracks and others seem to have never been able to pick out a tune in their life.
  • (7) Both measures are now showing chunky rises, with the claimant count up by 37,100 between June and July, and the LFS measure rising by 38,000 in the three months to June.
  • (8) US Treasuries have also strengthened, driving down yields on America's 10-year bonds by a chunky 8 basis points to 2.812% , from 2.9% on Friday.
  • (9) Over the next year the sequence of events is likely to be growing recessionary pressure leading to weaker inflationary pressure, prompting chunky falls in interest rates.
  • (10) I had meetings with all sorts of people and I'm going up for roles that are so chunky so …" he pauses for a minute and apologises for getting too passionate.
  • (11) A chunky piece of ugly technology, the sobriety bracelet is used to detect even a smidgen of alcohol in the perspiration of its wearer, from whom readings are sent twice a day in order to monitor their abstinence.
  • (12) Perhaps it was because, despite being the first portable music player, it wasn't as easy to lug around as the MP3 player; its chunky dimensions compelled it to be worn clipped to a belt, creating the danger that it would unclip itself – which it did with obnoxious regularity – and crash to the ground, disgorging its batteries.
  • (13) Previous star performers such as Sports Direct and Associated British Foods are being hit hard... Retail was one of the best-performing sectors in the first quarter, but the result of this was that many names were trading at chunky valuations, making them vulnerable to any momentum-driven selloff.
  • (14) When I buy my copy of the Observer on a Sunday I realise what a wonderfully chunky product it is."
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Moto 360 beside the Samsung Gear Live Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian On the wrist it looks much more like a traditional watch than a smartwatch, about the size of a chunky man’s watch though much lighter and smaller than the Gear Live.
  • (16) For anyone trying to work out the Venn diagram of iconic protest imagery, three tropes will immediately jump to the fore: the quiet dignity of said woman; the battle-hungry paraphernalia of male authority (your shields and batons and chunky uniforms); and the dramatic flip of power that clash presents.
  • (17) Pakistan boasted a supine and notably chunky Shoaib Akhtar.
  • (18) However, learning to play and master any of these games is a significant feat, despite their chunky aesthetics.
  • (19) While the effect had Anderson’s signature androgynous look, and a retro feel, bi-coloured sweaters, cropped shearling jackets and chunky scarves showed him moving gently towards more wearable pieces.
  • (20) The chunky boxers and smooth animation made for impressive fight scenes.

Rotund


Definition:

  • (a.) Round; circular; spherical.
  • (a.) Hence, complete; entire.
  • (a.) Orbicular, or nearly so.
  • (n.) A rotunda.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, with only 20 days of monocular deprivation both deprived and non-deprived rotundal neurons are larger than normal.
  • (2) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
  • (3) I'd quite like to be a balding, rotund, Jungian analyst between 40 and 50."
  • (4) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
  • (5) Nucleus pretectalis was identified as a major target of rotundal efferents as well as a significant input to nucleus rotundus.
  • (6) In a previous study, rotundal lesions in the 'trained' hemisphere caused deficits in interocular transfer of visual discrimination when the lesion was made after acquisition of the monocular learning, but not when the lesion was made before the monocular learning.
  • (7) The woman of the house was rotund and had some trouble walking.
  • (8) Bottle cells forming in vivo show a predominantly animal-vegetal apical contraction and a concurrent apical-basal elongation, whereas those forming in cultured explants show uniform apical contraction and remain rotund.
  • (9) He painted The Kongouro from New Holland from sketches by the voyage's official artist – who had died on the way back – and a kangaroo's skin, which it is thought he inflated, no doubt leading to his roo's somewhat rotund appearance.
  • (10) The rotund (rn) mutation in Drosophila is unique in that its phenotype is limited to the deletion of specific distal parts, though not the extremities, of all adult appendages.
  • (11) Large spherical bodies designated "rotund bodies" are formed as a result of the association of a number of separate cells.
  • (12) They also exhibited important phenotypic defects, such as slow growth in liquid broth, a tendency to aggregate as 'rotund bodies', a twisted filamentous shape, and an extreme sensitivity to lysozyme, suggesting protective and shaping roles for the S-layer in T. thermophilus HB8.
  • (13) With a "Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the President's review board," the inaptly named former Senator Tower (he is a rotund five foot five) led in his fellow-candidates for the Pulitzer Prize.
  • (14) Her rotund, elegant wooden creations suggest waves curling over rocks perforated by the sea.
  • (15) The Cube is for people who find Total Wipeout – rotund insurance sales-people being hurtled into butterscotch Angel Delight in South America – too cerebrally arduous.
  • (16) The rotund body thus appears as a series of rods, usually lying in parallel around the periphery of the sphere, completely connected by means of the fused outer layer.
  • (17) Brief anaerobic exercise and purely static forms of training (sprint, strength sports) do not produce substantial increases in the size of the heart, but a rotund heart shape with rounding of the cardiac tip and in some cases a discrete increase in the wall thickness of the ventricular myocardium is frequently observed.
  • (18) Some rotundal units appeared sensitive to substrate vibration.
  • (19) Today he's not the rotund of Superbad nor quite the skinny of post- Moneyball ; he looks tall and broad-chested, well-groomed, with close-cropped hair.
  • (20) The nucleus rotundus, the diencephalic station of the tectofugal pathway, exhibits the fastest development: rotundal neurons reach their maximum size at 20 days of age; the volume of this structure reaches adult size at the same time.