What does RAW mean?
Definitions for RAW
rɔraw
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word RAW.
Princeton's WordNet
raw, altogether, birthday suitadjective
informal terms for nakedness
"in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
natural, raw(a), rude(a)adjective
(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"
rawadjective
having the surface exposed and painful
"a raw wound"
rawadjective
not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
rawadjective
not processed or refined
"raw sewage"
naked, rawadjective
devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
"naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
rawadjective
brutally unfair or harsh
"received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
crude, rawadjective
not processed or subjected to analysis
"raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
rawadjective
untempered and unrefined
"raw talent"; "raw beauty"
sensitive, sore, raw, tenderadjective
hurting
"the tender spot on his jaw"
bleak, cutting, rawadjective
unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
raw(a), unsandedadjective
used of wood and furniture
"raw wood"
raw, newadjective
lacking training or experience
"the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"
bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark nakedadjective
(used informally) completely unclothed
Wiktionary
rawnoun
An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
rawadjective
Of food: not cooked.
rawadjective
Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
rawadjective
Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
a raw wound
rawadjective
New or inexperienced.
a raw beginner
rawadjective
Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
a raw voice
rawadjective
Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.
rawadjective
Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold
rawadjective
without a condom
We did it raw.
Etymology: From raw, rau, from hreaw, from hrawaz, from krewa-. Cognate with Scots raw, Dutch rauw, German roh, Swedish rå, hrár, crudus, cró, Albanian rroj, kraujas, Russian кровь. Related also to hreow, hreoh. More at ree.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
RAWadjective
Etymology: hreaw , Saxon; raa, Danish; rouw, Dutch.
Full of great lumps of flesh, and gobbets raw. Edmund Spenser.
All aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw;
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian’s nose looks red and raw. William Shakespeare.If there be quick raw flesh in the risings, it is an old leprosy. Lev. xiii. 10.
This her knight was feeble and too faint,
And all his sinews waxen weak and raw
Through long imprisonment. Edmund Spenser.Some people, very raw and ignorant, are very unworthily and unfitly nominated to places, when men of desert are held back and unpreferred. Walter Raleigh, Essays.
People, while young and raw, and soft-natured, are apt to think it an easy thing to gain love, and reckon their own friendship a sure price of another man’s; but when experience shall have once opened their eyes, they will find that a friend is the gift of God. South.
Sails were spread to ev’ry wind that blew,
Raw were the sailors, and the depths were new. Dryden.Well I knew
What perils youthful ardour would pursue,
Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war. Dryden.I have in my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks. William Shakespeare.They carried always with them that weed, as their house, their bed and their garment; and coming lastly into Ireland, they found there more special use thereof, by reason of the raw cold climate. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.
Youthful still in your doublet and hose, this raw rheumatick day. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
Once upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tyber chafing with his shores. William Shakespeare.God help thee, shallow man; God make
Incision in thee, thou art raw. William Shakespeare.Distilled waters will last longer than raw waters. Francis Bacon.
ChatGPT
raw
Raw generally refers to something in its natural, unprocessed, or untouched state. It can describe food that has not been cooked, materials that haven't been treated or refined, or data and information that has not been analyzed or processed. The term can be used in various contexts, each having slight variations in its meaning but all relating to the essential characteristic of being in an original, untreated, or unaltered state.
Webster Dictionary
Raw
not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat
Raw
hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit
Raw
not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought
Raw
not distilled; as, raw water
Raw
not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
Raw
not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
Raw
not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow
Raw
not tanned; as, raw hides
Raw
not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth
Raw
not covered; bare
Raw
bald
Raw
deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore
Raw
sore, as if by being galled
Raw
disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind
Rawnoun
a raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw
Etymology: [AS. hrew; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh, OHG. r, Icel. hrr, Dan. raa, Sw. r, L. crudus, Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. 18. Cf. Crude, Cruel.]
Wikidata
Raw
Raw was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published by Mouly from 1980 to 1991. It was a flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the underground tradition of Zap and Arcade. Along with the more genre-oriented Heavy Metal it was also one of the main venues for European comics in the United States in its day.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Raw
raw, adj. not altered from its natural state: not cooked or dressed: unbaked: not prepared or manufactured: not mixed: having the skin abraded: sore, as from abrasion of the skin: unfinished: immature: inexperienced: chilly and damp.—n. a galled place: an inveterate sore: hence (fig.) a point on which one is particularly sensitive.—adjs. Raw′bone (Spens.), Raw′boned, with little flesh on the bones: gaunt; Raw′-cold (Shak.), damp and cold.—ns. Raw′head, a spectre mentioned to frighten children; Raw′hide, an untanned skin: a whip made of twisted, untanned leather.—adj. Raw′ish, rather raw.—adv. Raw′ly.—ns. Raw′ness; Raw′-port, a porthole through which an oar can be worked in a small vessel. [A.S. hreáw; Dut. raauw, Ice. hrár, Ger. roh.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
raw
Unseasoned, unripe in skill, wanting knowledge in tactics.
Rap Dictionary
rawnoun
Money. "That's why I let tha chopper pop off for chop ya top get popped off, ya body dropped off" -- LogiKal (Who Do It Like Us?)
rawnoun
Raw - To go in without a condom "How you say My Love in thug? Can I hit it raw" Jay Z & Angie Martinez
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
RAW
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Raw is ranked #60347 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Raw surname appeared 334 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Raw.
86.5% or 289 total occurrences were White.
5.9% or 20 total occurrences were Asian.
3.5% or 12 total occurrences were Black.
2.1% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.8% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'RAW' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3871
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'RAW' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4369
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'RAW' in Adjectives Frequency: #511
Anagrams for RAW »
Rwa
RWA
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of RAW in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of RAW in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of RAW in a Sentence
Copper is the raw material ... of the 21st century. Lithium is (the raw material) of the 22nd century, of the future.
We can buy asparagus, but it's nothing like the kind of asparagus we get here. It's sweet and tender, and we can eat it raw, it has a true asparagus flavor, not like something you would get somewhere else that is mass produced.
If the raw data show no alarming rise, and you want to create an alarm, you have to alter the raw data.
At the end of the 2016 election and 2017 for a little while, there were still some pretty raw nerves there. To deny any sort of role within that situation I think would be a little disingenuous, i'd like to see Bernie Sanders say,' Hey, I'm here to appeal to more than just a small base of people and I want to bring people together.
It’s sort of raw, but that’s who I am, i’m hoping people will see themselves in the book.
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Translations for RAW
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- نيءArabic
- cruCatalan, Valencian
- surový, syrovýCzech
- amrwdWelsh
- råDanish
- rohGerman
- αμαγείρευτος, ωμός, πρωτόπειρος, γδαρμένος, ακατέργαστος, ανεκπαίδευτος, ανεπεξέργαστος, άψητοςGreek
- crudo, brutoSpanish
- خامPersian
- vihreä, käsittelemätön, kokematon, raaka, karkea, paljasFinnish
- cru, nu, brutFrench
- חי, נאHebrew
- érzékeny, tapasztalatlan, gyakorlatlan, nyersHungarian
- հում, չմշակվածArmenian
- mentahIndonesian
- óunninn, hrárIcelandic
- crudo, vergine, bruto, grezzo, naturale, non raffinatatoItalian
- 生Japanese
- 날것의Korean
- xaw, xav, خاوKurdish
- crudusLatin
- réiLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- žaliasLithuanian
- jēlsLatvian
- mataMāori
- mentahMalay
- စိမ်းBurmese
- prille, ruwe, pril, rauw, ruw, rauweDutch
- tʼáá tʼéehgoNavajo, Navaho
- crusOccitan
- اومPashto, Pushto
- bruto, crua, xucro, cru, inexperientePortuguese
- chawaQuechua
- criv, crüj, criev, criuRomansh
- crudRomanian
- необработанный, сырой, неопытныйRussian
- cruo, crudu, cruu, cruSardinian
- sirovSerbo-Croatian
- gjallëAlbanian
- råSwedish
- పచ్చి, ముడిTelugu
- сирийUkrainian
- רויYiddish
- 生的Chinese
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