Definitions for crude
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oiladjective

   a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

2. crude, roughadjective

   not carefully or expertly made

   "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"

3. crude, earthy, gross, vulgaradjective

   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"

4. unrefined, unprocessed, crudeadjective

   not refined or processed

   "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"

5. crude, primitive, rudeadjective

   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"

6. blunt, crude(a), stark(a)adjective

   devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

   "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"

7. crude, rawadjective

   not processed or subjected to analysis

   "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. crudenoun

   Any substance in its natural state.

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

2. crudenoun

   Crude oil.

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

3. crudeadjective

   Being in a natural state.

   crude oil

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

4. crudeadjective

   Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

   a crude shelter

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

5. crudeadjective

   Lacking concealing elements.

   a crude truth

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

6. crudeadjective

   Lacking tact or taste.

   a crude remark

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

7. crudeadjective

   Being in an unanalyzed form.

   crude data

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

8. crudeadjective

   Immature or unripe.

   Etymology: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crude

   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

   Etymology: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

2. Crude

   unripe; not mature or perfect; immature

   Etymology: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

3. Crude

   not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature

   Etymology: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

4. Crude

   undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment

   Etymology: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

5. Crude

   having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner

   Etymology: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

6. Crude

   harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art

   Etymology: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crude

   Crude is the first studio album from Shetland based band Bongshang.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crude

   krōōd, adj. raw, unprepared: not reduced to order or form: unfinished: undigested: immature.—adv. Crude′ly.—ns. Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.—adj. Crud′y (Shak.), crude, raw. [L. crudus, raw.]

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crude' in Adjectives Frequency: #786

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1. cured

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crude in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crude in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of crude in a Sentence

1. Vyanne Lai:

   The idea that gasoline demand is actually rising suggests that perhaps the lower prices of crude are actually prompting a greater usage of this product (gasoline), i think the market is reading this as a positive sign in terms of demand.

2. Omran Zwai:

   The maintenance team is still fixing damages caused by a sabotage last week at a crude pipeline between Sarir oilfield and Hariga port, we are expecting to resume work at Sarir oilfield within four days.

3. Tony Nunan:

   U.S. crude inventories have been at historic highs ... but the thing is crude inventories may have peaked after oil demand picked up in June, $60 a barrel is the new normal for the next several months.

4. John Kilduff:

   The report is bearish, with the focus squarely on crude oil and the large increase in overall inventories, due mostly to a surge in imports.

5. Jorge Pinon:

   There does not seem to have been a cutback in crude oil and or petroleum products deliveries by Venezuela to Cuba, according to marine traffic reports, they may be expecting one in the future, building inventories or simply trying to save money or trying to insure there are no blackouts for residents as electricity demand increases.

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