crude /ˈkrud/
(a.)天然的,未成熟的,粗糙的,粗魯的天然的物質
crude
未加工
crude
素材
Crude a. [Compar. Cruder superl. Crudest.]
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. --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. “Crude projects.”
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. “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.
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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, rock oil, fossil oil]