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crude::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil |
| Type of | oil, fossil fuel |
| Has types | resid, residual oil |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rough |
| Derivation | crudeness |
managed to make a crude splint.
a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them.
crude::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | raw |
| Derivation | crudity |
only the crude vital statistics.
Examples of crude
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Demand for very large crude carriers, or VLCCs, could rise as much as 6 percent.
From the bloomberg.com
The units separate crude into oil products and form the main part of a refinery.
From the bloomberg.com
Spot gold fetched $736 an ounce and West Texas crude oil traded at $82 a barrel.
From the upi.com
November Nymex crude-oil futures were down $1.03 to $81.18 per barrel on Globex.
From the online.wsj.com
He worries about a storm hitting the oily waters, raining crude on his hometown.
From the time.com
They have simple and crude arms, you have expensive weapons of mass-destruction.
From the independent.co.uk
More than 800 kinds of land mines, many of crude local design, are in use today.
From the theatlantic.com
Crude oil for January delivery yesterday fell 1.8 percent to $72.62 in New York.
From the bloomberg.com
Crude oil, little changed at $79.99 a barrel today, is up 13 percent this month.
From the bloomberg.com
- Not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
- Petroleum: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
- 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"
- Unrefined: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
- 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"
- Blunt: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
- Not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
- (crudely) in a crude or unrefined manner; "he was crudely bold"
- (crudity) crudeness: a wild or unrefined state
