different between stanch vs robust

English

Alternative forms

• staunch

Etymology

From Old French estanchier (“to stanch”), origin uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *stantic? (“to stop”), from Latin st? (“stand”). Compare Spanish estancar. See also staunch.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??nt??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stænt??/
• Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?

Verb

stanch (third-person singular simple present stanches, present participle stanching, simple past and past participle stanched)

1. (transitive) To stop the flow of.

   A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.

   • Beijing devotes immense resources to restricting access for and stanching scrutiny from international groups and reporters.

2. (intransitive) To cease, as the flowing of blood.

   • Immediately her issue of blood stanched.

3. (transitive) To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
   • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody

     His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow tower when snow should fall.

4. To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

Translations

Noun

stanch (plural stanches)

1. That which stanches or checks a flow.
2. A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

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Adjective

stanch (comparative stancher, superlative stanchest)

1. Strong and tight; sound; firm.

   a stanch ship

   • One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.

2. Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast.

   a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent

   • 1689, Matthew Prior, an epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd, Esq.

     In politics I hear you're stanch.

3. Close; secret; private.

   • this is to be kept very stanch

Anagrams

• Chants, chanst, chants, snatch

English

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????b?st/, /???b?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust) (see usage notes)

1. Evincing strength and health; strong.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

2. Violent; rough; rude.
3. Requiring strength or vigor

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (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

Translations

See also

• Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brotus, or bust, turbos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, first attested circa 1400.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ru?bust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro?bust/

Adjective

robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

1. robust (evincing strength and health)

   Synonyms: fort, vigorós

Derived terms

• robustament
• robustesa

Further reading

• “robust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “robust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “robust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

German

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?b?st/
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

1. robust

Declension

Derived terms

• Robustheit

Further reading

• “robust” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French robuste.

Adjective

robust m or n (feminine singular robust?, masculine plural robu?ti, feminine and neuter plural robuste)

1. robust

Declension