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Stanch vs Robust - What's the difference?

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Stanch is a related term of robust.


As adjectives the difference between stanch and robust

is that stanch is strong and tight; sound; firm while robust is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

As a verb stanch

is to stop the flow of.

As a noun stanch

is that which stanches or checks.

stanch

English

Alternative forms

* staunch

Verb

(es)
  • To stop the flow of.
    • A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
  • To cease, as the flowing of blood.
  • * Bible, Luke viii. 44
    • Immediately her issue of blood stanched .
  • To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
  • * Emerson
    • His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
  • To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • That which stanches or checks.
  • A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
    • (Knight)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Strong and tight; sound; firm.
    • a stanch ship
  • * Evelyn
    • One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
  • Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.
    • a stanch''' churchman; a '''stanch friend or adherent
  • * Prior
    • In politics I hear you're stanch .
  • Close; secret; private.
  • * John Locke
    • this to be kept stanch

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    robust

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
    • He was a robust man of six feet four.
  • * Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
    • She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
  • Violent; rough; rude.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}
  • Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
  • Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
  • (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  • (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  • (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

    • Usage notes

    * "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

    Derived terms

    * robustness

    See also

    * (Robust statistics)

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