raw
IPA: rˈɑ
noun
- (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
- A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
- (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
- (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
- A surname from Old English.
- (India, acronym) Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing.
- (games) Abbreviation of rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or to rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).
- (computing) Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.
verb
- (slang) To anally or vaginally penetrate without a condom.
adjective
- (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
- Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
- Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
- Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
- New or inexperienced.
- Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
- (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
- Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
- Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
- Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
- Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
adverb
- (slang, sex) Without a condom.
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Examples of "raw" in Sentences
- The raw egg makes it nutritious.
- He can eat raw meat and raw fish.
- The raw juice and pulp are caustic.
- The conditions were raw and primitive.
- The raw leadership of the soldiers was outstanding.
- The fruit is astringent and acidic and is not palatable when raw.
- Even though the fruit is edible, it is rather insipid when eaten raw.
- They ate most animal food raw, sometimes after considerable putrefaction.
- The fruit can be eaten raw but is mainly used to make marmalade and jelly.
- The term Raw Food Diet describes a diet where all the food is raw and uncooked.
- He is a young professional with what he describes as a raw hunger to make as much money as possible.
- I like to buy 'em a little farther back even than wholesale -- when they are what you call raw resources.
- Next in declining order of healing effectiveness is what I call a raw food healing diet or cleansing diet.
- And we do track what we call our raw capture ratio, which is the number of orders versus the raw bids that we did.
- "The Washington Post" reports about what it calls raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed and unreported in this election so far.
- In Nevada, where the party is making a big push for Reid, Democrats are slightly ahead of Republicans in raw early-vote totals, although Democrats are trailing slightly in turnout percentage.
- V. ii.119 (330,9) and yet but raw neither in respect of his quick sail] [W: but slow] I believe _raw_ to be the right word; it is a word of great latitude; _raw_ signifies _unripe, immature_, thence _unformed, imperfect, unskilful_.
- Although the cost of any article may be reduced in its ultimate analysis to the quantity of labour by which it was produced; yet it is usual, in a certain state of the manufacture of most substances, to call them by the term raw material.
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