Raw vs Inane - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between raw and inane

is that raw is of food: not cooked while inane is lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).

As nouns the difference between raw and inane

is that raw is an unprocessed sugar; a batch of such while inane is that which is void or empty.

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

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inane

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).

This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already! Eventually he did, so better late than never.

purposeless; pointless

* I. Taylor

Vague and inane instincts.

Synonyms

* (lacking sense) silly, fatuous, vapid

Derived terms

* inanely * inanity

Noun

(en noun)

That which is void or empty.

* Locke

The undistinguishable inane of infinite space.

*1881 , :

[...] whom we watch as we watch the clouds careering in the windy, bottomless inane , or read about like characters in ancient and rather fabulous annals.

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