CRUDE


Meaning of CRUDE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kru:d ]

( cruder, crudest, crudes)

1.

A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way.

Standard measurements of blood pressure are an important but crude way of assessing the risk of heart disease or strokes...

= rough

ADJ

• crude‧ly

The donors can be split–a little crudely–into two groups...

ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV adj

2.

If you describe an object that someone has made as crude , you mean that it has been made in a very simple way or from very simple parts.

...crude wooden boxes.

ADJ

• crude‧ly

...a crudely carved wooden form...

ADV : usu ADV -ed

3.

If you describe someone as crude , you disapprove of them because they speak or behave in a rude, offensive, or unsophisticated way.

Nev! Must you be quite so crude?

...crude language.

= coarse

ADJ [ disapproval ]

• crude‧ly

He hated it when she spoke so crudely...

ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV adj

4.

Crude substances are in a natural or unrefined state, and have not yet been used in manufacturing processes.

...8.5 million tonnes of crude steel.

= raw

≠ refined

ADJ : ADJ n

5.

Crude is the same as crude oil .

N-MASS

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