Definition of Crude

Babylon English Dictionary
raw; unrefined; rude
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Crude Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Chaucer's Middle English Glossary
adj. raw, unrefined
Crude Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(superl.)
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
  
(superl.)
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
  
(superl.)
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
  
(superl.)
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
  
(superl.)
Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
  
(superl.)
Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
  
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crude
\crude\ (kr&udd;d), a. [compar. cruder (-&etilde;r); superl. crudest.] [l. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). see raw, and cf. cruel.]
1. in its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "common crude salt." molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. taylor.
2. unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. i come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
3. not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "crude projects." crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. the originals of nature in their crude conception.
4. undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "crude and inconcoct."
5. having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
6. (paint.) harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
crude
adj
1. not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: rough]


2. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: coarse, earthy, gross, vulgar]


3. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn: unrefined, unprocessed]
[ant: refined]

4. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the appalachian mountains" [syn: primitive, rude]


5. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a) , stark(a) ]


6. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: raw]
n : a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, coal oil, rock oil, fossil oil]





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 crude oil 
JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Llymrig = a. crude, raw, harsh
Ofawd = n. a making crude; a mouldering
WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
(synonym) petroleum, crude oil, rock oil, fossil oil
(hypernym) oil
(hyponym) residual oil, resid
(substance-meronym) carbon, C, atomic number 6

Adjective
1. not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
(synonym) rough
(similar) unskilled
2. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
(synonym) coarse, earthy, gross, vulgar
(similar) indecent
3. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
(synonym) unrefined, unprocessed
4. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
(synonym) primitive, rude
(similar) early
5. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
(synonym) blunt, crude(a), stark(a)
(similar) unconditional
6. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
(synonym) raw
(similar) unanalyzed
Crude Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Crude can refer to:
  • Petroleum in its unprocessed form ("crude oil"), including:
    • Brent crude oil
    • Heavy crude oil
    • Light crude oil
    • Sweet crude oil
      • Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil, a type of sweet crude
    • Synthetic crude oil

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