crude : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crude	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for crude
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crude adj not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" Synonym(s): crude, rough 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(s): crude, earthy, gross, vulgar not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" Synonym(s): unrefined, unprocessed, crude Antonym(s): processed, refined 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 devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" Synonym(s): blunt, crude(a), stark(a) not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" Synonym(s): crude, raw n a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. {Cruder} (-[etil]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. [bd]Common crude salt.[b8] --Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. --I. Taylor. 2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. 3. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. [bd]Crude projects.[b8] --Macaulay. Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. --De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. --Milton. 4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. [bd]Crude and inconcoct.[b8] --Bacon. 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.