Primary vs Raw - What's the difference?

As an adjective primary

is the first in a group or series.

As a noun primary

is a primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

As a verb primary

is (us|intransitive) to take part in a primary election.

As an abbreviation raw is

(games) the rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or as opposed to the rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).

primary

English

(wikipedia primary)

Adjective

(en adjective)

The first in a group or series.

Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.

* Bishop Pearson

the church of Christ, in its primary institution

* John Locke

These I call original, or primary , qualities of body.

Main; principal; placed ahead of others.

Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.

(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.

(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

(label) idiopathic

Derived terms

* primarily * primary care * primary color, primary colour * primary producer * primary research * primary school * primary source

Noun

(primaries)

A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.

The first year of grade school.

A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.

The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.

A primary school.

* 2001 , David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement

Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.

A primary colour.

* 2003 , Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook

By adding and subtracting the three primaries , cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.

(electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary

Verb

(US) To take part in a primary election.

(US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election

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raw

English

Adjective

(er)

Of food: not cooked.

Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

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. […]’}}

New or inexperienced.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

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

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Adverb

(head)

(slang) Without a condom.

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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