The difference between Casual and Random

When used as nouns, casual means a worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee, whereas random means a roving motion.

When used as adjectives, casual means happening by chance, whereas random means having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable.

check bellow for the other definitions of Casual and Random

  1. Casual as an adjective:

    Happening by chance.

    Examples:

    "They only had casual meetings."

  2. Casual as an adjective:

    Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.

    Examples:

    "The purchase of donuts was just a casual expense."

  3. Casual as an adjective:

    Employed irregularly.

    Examples:

    "He was just a casual worker."

  4. Casual as an adjective:

    Careless.

  5. Casual as an adjective:

    Happening or coming to pass without design.

  6. Casual as an adjective:

    Informal, relaxed.

  7. Casual as an adjective:

    Designed for informal or everyday use.

  1. Casual as a noun (British, Australian, NZ):

    A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.

  2. Casual as a noun:

    A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.

  3. Casual as a noun (UK):

    A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see .

  4. Casual as a noun:

    One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

  5. Casual as a noun (video games, informal, derogatory):

    A player of casual games.

    Examples:

    "usex The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it."

  6. Casual as a noun (British):

    (dated) A tramp.

  1. Random as a noun:

    A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

  2. Random as a noun (obsolete):

    Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.

  3. Random as a noun (obsolete):

    The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

  4. Random as a noun (figuratively, colloquial):

    An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

    Examples:

    "The party was boring. It was full of randoms."

  5. Random as a noun (mining):

    The direction of a rake-vein.

  1. Random as an adjective:

    Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.

    Examples:

    "The flip of a fair coin is purely random."

    "The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers."

    "The results of the field survey look random by several different measures."

  2. Random as an adjective (mathematics):

    Of or relating to probability distribution.

    Examples:

    "A toss of loaded dice is still random, though biased."

  3. Random as an adjective (computing):

    Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.

    Examples:

    "The <tt>rand</tt> function generates a random number from a seed."

  4. Random as an adjective (somewhat colloquial):

    Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.

    Examples:

    "A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference."

  5. Random as an adjective (somewhat colloquial):

    Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause or reason.

    Examples:

    "That was a completely random comment."

    "The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but random."

    "The narrative takes a random course."

  6. Random as an adjective (colloquial):

    Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.

    Examples:

    "You're so random!"

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