crude
IPA: krˈud
noun
- Any substance in its natural state.
- Crude oil.
adjective
- In a natural, untreated state.
- Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- Lacking concealing elements.
- Lacking tact or taste.
- (archaic) Immature or unripe.
- (obsolete) Uncooked, raw.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
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Examples of "crude" in Sentences
- The road is bumpy and crude.
- He is annoying, meddlesome and crude.
- It was possible to crudely gerrymander tribes.
- Gunvor buys 10% stake in crude oil transalpine pipeline.
- The petroleum in the tar sands is heavier than the heaviest crude oil.
- The gusher unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew crude oil.
- The state also has large deposits of crude oil and natural gas untapped.
- Crude oil is found primarily in the Gulf of Suez and in the Western Desert.
- The country has largely untapped reserves of both crude oil and natural gas.
- The lack of refining facilities often resulted in the dumping of the crude oil.
- Reverend Jesse Jackson is apologizing for what he calls crude and hurtful comments about Barack Obama.
- Normally, crude is shipped to Far East in 50 days but when the Med Stream is completed it would take 19 days to transport crude from the Red Sea.
- The Reverend Jesse Jackson apologizing to Senator Barack Obama for making what he calls crude comments that were picked up by a live television microphone.
- But what we call crude forms are often in reality germinal forms; and one or other of these flowered at once into the practical conclusion that God must know all his trouble, and would work for him a worthy peace.
- Polanski's backers, ranging from fellow directors to French culture and foreign ministers, criticized U.S. and Los Angeles judicial authorities for seeking what they called crude revenge against a major artist who deserved more respect.
- LEMON: Well, what he said to me earlier -- and we're going to talk to him in just a little bit, we've just got him on the phone, Wolf -- he said that he made some crude -- what he called crude and hurtful comments that he much rather have made to the senator in private.
- James Boyle expressed what he termed a crude political fear, which closely tracked the Benkler-Sunder exchange: There are two schools of thought in WIPO – (1) optimistic: the traditional knowledge initiative can show the narrowness and blindness of current IP conceptions, which need to bring together effects on environment and other distributional issues; and (2) cynical: access to knowledge is a threat to WIPO, and traditional knowledge protections are the bone to be thrown.
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