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