Raw vs Chill - What's the difference?
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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 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:
Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
* Spenser
(slang) Without a condom.
(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,
* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1,
* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2,
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills , or susceptibility to illness.
An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
Moderately cold or chilly.
* Milton
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also : chill out.
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
(metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
To become cold.
(metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
(slang) To relax, lie back.
(slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out .
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
Raw is a related term of chill.
As abbreviations the difference between raw and chill
is that 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) while chill is (computing) an acronym for ccitt high level language.raw
English
Adjective
(er)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. […]’}}
- What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
- a raw wind
- a raw and gusty day
- with scull all raw
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(head)Noun
(en noun)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.
page 149,
- Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
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.
Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A chill wind was blowing down the street.
- Noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill .
- I'm pretty chill most of the time.
- Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
- That new movie was chill , man.
Verb
(en verb)- Chill before serving.
- In the wind he chilled quickly.
- Chill , man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
- The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
- Hey, we should chill this weekend.
- On Friday night do you wanna chill?
