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English Dictionary: rude by the DICT Development Group
4 results for rude
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rude
adj
  1. socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
    Synonym(s): ill-mannered, bad- mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly
  2. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
    Synonym(s): ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish
  3. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
    Synonym(s): uncivil, rude
    Antonym(s): civil, polite
  4. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
    Synonym(s): natural, raw(a), rude(a)
  5. 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(s): crude, primitive, rude
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. {Ruder}; superl. {Rudest}.] [F., fr. L.
      rudis.]
      1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking
            delicacy or refinement; coarse.
  
                     Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had
                     formed.                                             --Milton.
  
      2. Hence, specifically:
            (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not
                  smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material
                  things; as, rude workmanship. [bd]Rude was the
                  cloth.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                           Rude and unpolished stones.         --Bp.
                                                                              Stillingfleet.
  
                           The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the
                           rude manger lies.                        --Milton.
            (b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil;
                  clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of
                  persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. [bd]Mine
                  ancestors were rude.[b8]

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   rude [WPI] adj.   1. (of a program) Badly written.   2.
   Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use
   because of gratuitously poor (random?) design decisions.   Oppose
   {cuspy}.   3. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without
   regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)
   problem.   Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting
   them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to
   the top of the window stack.   Compare {all-elbows}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   rude
  
      [WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program
      that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor
      design decisions.   Opposite: {cuspy}.
  
      2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard
      for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)
      problem.   Examples: programs that change tty modes without
      resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep
      forcing themselves to the top of the window stack.   Compare
      {all-elbows}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1994-10-27)
  
  
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