What's the difference between hoodlum and rough?

Hoodlum


Definition:

  • (n.) A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Olusola Amore, a police official, appealed for members of the public to come forward "with information on the identity and location of these hoodlums".
  • (2) Manchester City will splurge on the Shakhtar Donetsk defender Fernandinho, Real Madrid hoodlum Pepe , the Málaga playmaker Isco and the Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcântara .
  • (3) Into the Rover's Return swaggered three young hoodlums looking for trouble.
  • (4) Photograph: Kobal In the wild west, English expat John Tunstall (Terence Stamp) runs a finishing school for hoodlums, demanding proper table manners and teaching them to read.
  • (5) "The one above looks like a hoodlum has stabbed him in the head with a twig."
  • (6) Rising star Zheng Kuo's Burned Wings is a reckless study of young north-eastern hoodlums mixing violence, sex and comedy.
  • (7) Drug addicts and hoodlums took advantage … to burn tyres," Majiya told AP.
  • (8) During that time, you couldn't walk to the station in the morning without getting high on the smoke being puffed out all over the place by every Nike-wearing hoodlum.
  • (9) By far the most celebrated gangster of the day, though, was Al Capone, a New York-born hoodlum who controlled much of the Chicago underworld in the mid-1920s.
  • (10) Fearless and filled with righteous conviction, she confronts hoodlums and comforts the bereaved with such an extraordinary mixture of sense and sensitivity that you wonder why she isn't involved in a larger scale undertaking, like running the UN or the world.
  • (11) Juan Abbate, the owner of the family bakery where Mujica worked as a boy, described how he had once been prevented from making a delivery by a gang of teenage pasta-base hoodlums.
  • (12) Having been the target of protesters herself, Redgrave complimented her audience that they “stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behaviour is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression … I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against antisemitism and fascism.” Marlon Brando for The Godfather, 1973 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather collects Marlon Brando’s best actor Oscar.
  • (13) The other is the opportunity these divisions offer the new guy on the Afghan block – the black-flagged hoodlums of Islamic State.
  • (14) This might sound like an everyday scene for a hip city beach, but when I lived in Brazil 20 years ago, people in Rio seemed almost scared to blink lest their bags were snatched from their hands; and the busker's hat would have been nicked by hoodlums, along with his sax.
  • (15) Here we turn to the unfortunate spectacle of Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), chief hoodlum of the English Defence League, serial offender against community cohesion, claiming the high ground because one of Selfridges' assistants recognised him and refused to serve an associate of his .
  • (16) Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."
  • (17) He has Tunstall assassinated, and the hoodlums band together as the Regulators to seek revenge.

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.

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