Messy vs Random - What's the difference?
messy | random |
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
* (1591-1674)
*:Counsels, when they fly / At random , sometimes hit most happily.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O, many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant!
(label) Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
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*:they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon
*(Edward Hall) (1497-1547)
*:For courageously the two kings newly fought with great random and force.
*1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 144:
*:Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random .
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(label) The direction of a rake-vein.
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Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
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(mathematics) Of or relating to probability distribution.
(computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
(somewhat colloquial) Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.
(somewhat colloquial) Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.
(colloquial) Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
As nouns the difference between messy and random
is that messy is while random is a roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.As an adjective random is
having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.messy
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Adjective
(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}
Synonyms
(in a disorderly state) untidy, chaotic, disorderly, clutteredAntonyms
* neat * orderlyDerived terms
* messily * messinessDescendants
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* *random
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* force, momentum, speed, velocity * (unimportant person) nobody, nonentityAdjective
(en adjective)- The flip of a fair coin is purely random .
- The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.
- The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random , irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- A toss of loaded dice is still random , though biased.
- The rand function generates a random number from a seed.
- A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
- That was a completely random comment.
- The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random .
- The narrative takes a random course.
- You're so random !