Raw vs Fresh - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between raw and fresh

is that raw is of food: not cooked while fresh is newly produced or obtained.

As nouns the difference between raw and fresh

is that raw is an unprocessed sugar; a batch of such while fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

As an adverb raw

is without a condom.

As an abbreviation RAW

is 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).

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.

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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

* (l)

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.

Anagrams

* *

fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Newly produced or obtained.

He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.

a glass of fresh milk

(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Refreshing or cool.

What a nice fresh breeze.

(of water) Without salt; not saline.

After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:

There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,

* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:

When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;

* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:

Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.

Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

a fresh hand on a ship

youthful; florid

* Shakespeare

these fresh nymphs

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* stale

Derived terms

* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

Noun

(freshes)

A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:

They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.

A stream or spring of fresh water.

* Shakespeare

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.

The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Etymology 2

1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

No one liked his fresh comments.

Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Hey, don't get fresh with me!

Derived terms

* fresher * freshness * get fresh

Synonyms

* See also

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