CRUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crude mean? 

• CRUDE (noun)
  The noun CRUDE has 1 sense:

1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

  Familiarity information: CRUDE used as a noun is very rare.

• CRUDE (adjective)
  The adjective CRUDE has 6 senses:

1. not carefully or expertly made

2. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

3. not refined or processed

4. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

5. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

6. not processed or subjected to analysis

  Familiarity information: CRUDE used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

crude; crude oil; fossil oil; oil; petroleum; rock oil

Hypernyms ("crude" is a kind of...):

fossil fuel (fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content)

oil (a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water)

Meronyms (substance of "crude"):

atomic number 6; C; carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crude"):

resid; residual oil (oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled)

• CRUDE (adjective)

Comparative: cruder   
Superlative: crudest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not carefully or expertly made

Synonyms:

crude; rough

Context example:

rough carpentry

Similar:

unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)

Derivation:

crudeness (an unpolished unrefined quality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Synonyms:

crude; earthy; gross; vulgar

Context example:

full of language so vulgar it should have been edited

Similar:

indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)

Derivation:

crudeness; crudity (an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not refined or processed

Synonyms:

crude; unprocessed; unrefined

Context example:

crude oil

Derivation:

crudeness (an unpolished unrefined quality)

crudity (a wild or unrefined state)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

Synonyms:

crude; primitive; rude

Context example:

primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains

Similar:

early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)

Derivation:

crudeness; crudity (a wild or unrefined state)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

Synonyms:

blunt; crude; stark

Context example:

facing the stark reality of the deadline

Similar:

unconditional; unconditioned (not conditional)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Not processed or subjected to analysis

Synonyms:

crude; raw

Context example:

only the crude vital statistics

Similar:

unanalyzed (not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination)

Derivation:

crudity (a wild or unrefined state)

 Context examples 

Labeled DNAs were reacted with crude cell extracts and the complexes are run through a non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel.

(Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The kind of oil spilled in the Gulf, light crude oil, can cause skin irritation.

(Oil Spills, NIH)

Benzo(k)fluoranthene is primarily found in gasoline exhaust, cigarette smoke, coal tar, coal and oil combustion emissions, lubricating oils, used motor oils and crude oils.

(Benzo[k]fluoranthene, NCI Thesaurus)

Benzo(j)fluoranthene is primarily found in certain foods, cigarette smoke, gasoline exhaust, coal tar, coal smoke, oil heat emissions, crude oils and used motor oils.

(Benzo[j]fluoranthene, NCI Thesaurus)

Benzene is found in crude oils and as a by-product of oil-refining processes.

(Benzene, NCI Thesaurus)

He laughed sonorously at his own conceit, for, though he had little sense of humor, the crudest pleasantry from his own lips moved him always to roars of appreciation.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because of this crude processing and subsequent de-mixing of the chemical components that you create these valleys and mountains in energy that charges can funnel down and concentrate in.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

Crude birth rates—the number of newborns per 1,000 people per year—were by then on the rise, mounting steadily until about 500 A.D. The growth varied across the region.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

Test of the intrinsic (factors VIII, IX, XI, and XII) and common (fibrinogen, prothrombin, factors V and X) pathways of coagulation in which a mixture of plasma and phospholipid platelet substitute (e.g., crude cephalins, soybean phosphatides) is recalcified and the time required for the appearance of fibrin strands measured.

(Partial Thromboplastin Time, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)