approximateadjective
uk/əˈprɒk.sɪ.mət/us/əˈprɑːk.sə.mət/B2 not completely accurate but close:
The train's approximate time of arrival is 10.30.
The approximate cost will be about $600.
Can you give me an approximate idea of the numbers involved?
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- The way that the trunk of a tree divides into smaller and smaller branches and twigs is an approximate fractal pattern.
- You only need to submit a plan with approximate dimensions at this stage.
- The recipe only gives an approximate cooking time.
- The following costings for the project are only an approximate guide.
- We can only give an approximate idea of cost at this stage.
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Approximate
- (a) sort of idiom
- -ish
- about
- approx
- approximately
- around
- effect
- loosely
- maybe
- more
- more or less idiom
- or so idiom
- round
- rule
- sense
- something
- something like 96 percent, half, etc. idiom
- somewhere
- sort
- sorta
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approximateverb [ I + adv/prep, T ]
uk/əˈprɒk.sɪ.meɪt/us/əˈprɑːk.sə.meɪt/formalto be almost the same as:
The newspaper reports of the discussion only roughly approximated to (= were not exactly the same as) what was actually said.
Student numbers this year are expected to approximate 5,000 (= to be about 5,000).
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Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- delusional
- divine
- fall
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- pluck sth out of the air idiom
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- think
- think of sth/sb
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