Rough vs Tart - What's the difference?
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Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
Turbulent.
Difficult; trying.
Crude; unrefined
Violent; not careful or subtle
Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
Harsh-tasting.
The unmowed part of a golf course.
A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
(cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming and a vital step in the design process.
(obsolete) Boisterous weather.
To create in an approximate form.
To physically assault someone in retribution.
(ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
To render rough; to roughen.
To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
* Sir Walter Scott
Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
(of wine) high or too high in acidity.
(figuratively) Sharp; keen; severe.
A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
(British, slang) A prostitute.
(British, slang, derogatory) By extension, any woman with loose sexual morals.
To practice prostitution
To practice promiscuous sex
To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorish,or slutty
Rough is a related term of tart.
As adjectives the difference between rough and tart
is that rough is having a texture that has much friction not smooth; uneven while tart is sharp to the taste; acid; sour.As nouns the difference between rough and tart
is that rough is the unmowed part of a golf course while tart is a type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie or tart can be (british|slang) a prostitute.As verbs the difference between rough and tart
is that rough is to create in an approximate form while tart is to practice prostitution.As an adverb rough
is in a rough manner; rudely; roughly.rough
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Alternative forms
* (colloquial) ruffAdjective
(er)- The rock was one of those tremendously solid brown, or rather black, rocks which emerge from the sand like something primitive. Rough with crinkled limpet shells and sparsely strewn with locks of dry seaweed, a small boy has to stretch his legs far apart, and indeed to feel rather heroic, before he gets to the top.
- a rough''' estimate; a '''rough sketch of a building
- The sea was rough .
- Being a teenager nowadays can be rough .
- His manners are a bit rough , but he means well.
- This box has been through some rough handling.
- a rough''' tone; a '''rough voice
- (Alexander Pope)
- a rough diamond
- rough wine
Antonyms
* smoothNoun
(en noun)- (Fletcher)
Verb
(en verb)- Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
- The gangsters roughed him up a little.
- (Crabb)
Adverb
(en adverb)- Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats.
Derived terms
* bit of rough * diamond in the rough * rough and ready * roughhouse * rough in * roughness * rough out * rough uptart
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) tart, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- I ate a very tart apple.
- He gave me a very tart reply.