English English Dictionary

approximately in English:

1. roughly

Roughly speaking, there were about 30 people in the bus.

He drives roughly.

Our wedding is roughly six months away. (Nasz ślub jest za mniej więcej sześć miesięcy.) The profit was roughly 10%. (Zysk wyniósł mniej więcej 10%.)

I started working with React roughly about 3 years ago

World wine production will increase to about 272 million hectoliters (that's roughly 36 billion

His friends had told him a lot about that small hut, built roughly with metal parts and crumbling bricks.

It was out of the ordinary for Chris to behave so roughly.

He's charging me roughly four times as much as he charged when he started cutting my lawn.

I just roughly allocated it to each function.

By day a driver’s visibility is roughly 500 metres.

The number of women in key roles in the technology industry has remained roughly unchanged

In Portugal and the Czech Republic, citizens' income, measured by GDP, is roughly the same.

the distance from London to Stockholm is roughly 1900 kilometers

Vatican City /ˈvætɪkən ˈsɪti/, a state with roughly 800 inhabitants

AI is contributing to a transformation of society “happening ten times faster and at 300 times the scale, or roughly 3,000 times the impact”

English word "approximately"(roughly) occurs in sets:

Advanced English words that start with "Q" and "R"

2. give or take

The walk is about 10 kilometres - give or take a kilometre.

The number of unemployed in the area is about 10 000, give or take.

English word "approximately"(give or take) occurs in sets:

Word pairs – English Vocabulary
Word pairs – English Vocabulary

3. imprecise but fairly close to correct

English word "approximately"(imprecise but fairly close to correct) occurs in sets:

new opportunities - intermediate

4. approx

5. close to or around

English word "approximately"(close to or around) occurs in sets:

FCE (appeal to - ...)

6. in the region of

English word "approximately"(in the region of) occurs in sets:

Prawnicze odpowiedniki

7. in the vicinity of

he club is believed to have paid in the vicinity of €3 million for Domingo

Many companies get involved in community projects in the vicinity of their sites.

English word "approximately"(in the vicinity of) occurs in sets:

p. 46, 48 justice

8. very closely

9. more or less than a number or amount

10. more or less

I more or less recognize the name.

She could earn $200 a night, more or less.

You will have to pay, more or less, 50 dollars for this book // I more or less recognize the name // It's 400 kilos, more or less

English word "approximately"(more or less) occurs in sets:

use of english unit 8 p. 100

11. about

Think about it.

Something you should know about me is that I spend a lot of time reading.

Tom asked Mary to see about getting front row seats at the Lady Gaga concert.

Didn't you know that he passed away about two years ago?

How far is it from here to your school? "It's about ten minute's walk."

Sooner or later, every parent has to have a talk with their children about the birds and the bees.

I asked many people about the store, but no one had heard of it.

Complaining about something is one way to adapt yourself to a new environment.

Even when she thought about something else, ideas of death returned to her mind.

He wasn't about to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime chance.

Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.

We argued with each other about the best place for a holiday.

A mysterious legend has been handed down about this lake.

Sorry, but it all came about so suddenly that I haven't got a handle on the situation yet.

English word "approximately"(about) occurs in sets:

farmalne nieformalne

12. or so

They spent an hour or so searching for the missing file.

it will take a week or so.

I spent there thre months or so

I have five days off or so.

three weeks or so

one hundred or so

There were thirty or so people in the cinema.

Leave it to boil for fifteen minutes or so.

A month or so later, they heard that blake was dead

English word "approximately"(or so) occurs in sets:

Unit 1 Part 4

13. around

Turn around.

You can't just come in here and start ordering people around.

Doesn't it irritate you to see couples making out around town?

Company attorneys are working around the clock to complete the merger.

She advised him to take a long holiday, so he immediately quit work and took a trip around the world.

Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.

There were many things that we wanted to do, but we never got around to doing many of them.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Ecology is the study of living things all around us.

Jingle Bells, a popular song around Christmas time, is not really a Christmas song. The lyrics say nothing about Christmas.

Taking no notice of the people around them, the boys talked loudly to each other.

I'll be sticking around town all summer. I just don't have enough money to go anywhere.

Don't read evil intentions into the ordinary actions of people around you.

Make your airplane reservations early since flights fill up quickly around Christmas.

I looked around and noticed that mine was the only car on the road.

14. the number or amount given is close

15. exactly

Tom and Mary gave exactly the same answers on the test which made the teacher suspicious.

It seems like an interesting job. What do you exactly do?

Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system because people's needs seldom matched exactly.

Well, when exactly?

You can search words, and get translations. But it's not exactly a typical dictionary.

It was a big dumpster, Dima said. "And there was a lot of food, so... It wasn't exactly uncomfortable. But yes, smellier than a donkey's behind."

It's your first time doing this kind of work. You should follow the manual exactly until you get more experience.

They left for New York, didn't they? "Exactly."

All the same, we still need a scientific account of how exactly pains are caused by brain processes.

I couldn't say when exactly in my life it occurred to me that I would be a pilot someday.

For distances, if 100 meters is said it's exactly 100 meters.

used when you are giving or asking for information that is completely correct dokładnie What exactly seems to be the problem? The train got in at exactly ten o'clock.

But there had been no indications Gorbachev was having any sort of health problems, and it is not exactly clear what's happened to him now.

But she had not expected to cross an ocean, enter a new and romantic-sounding country, and find herself in exactly the same position.