raw English
Adjective
( er)
Of food: not cooked.
Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
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Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 citation
, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw . Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
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New or inexperienced.
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Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
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Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", (The Economist), 16 Oct 2010:
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
- a raw wind
* Shakespeare
- a raw and gusty day
(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
* Spenser
- with scull all raw
Synonyms
* See also
* (without a condom)
Derived terms
* (l)
Adverb
( head)
(slang) Without a condom.
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Noun
( en noun)
(sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
* 1800 , Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , Volume 22, page 287 ,
- With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1, page 149 ,
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924 ,
- The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
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origin English
Noun
( en noun)
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Where the profound meets the profane
, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
(mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Synonyms
* (source) source
* (mathematics) zero vector
Antonyms
* (source) destination
* (anatomy) insertion
Related terms
* orient
* original
* originate
* originator
* origination
See also
* provenance
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