Raw vs Rai - What's the difference?
raw | rai |
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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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 form of from Bedouin shepherds.
* 1991 March-April, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg, "Rai Tide Rising" in Middle East Report no. 169, page 39 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-2851%28199103%2F04%29169%3C39%3ARTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5]:
* 1997': Karen Fog Olwig & Kirsten Hastrup, ''Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object — chapter 3: “Which world? On the diffusion of Algerian '''raï to the West” (by Marc Schade-Poulsen),
* 1999 : Marc Schade-Poulsen, Men and Popular Music in Algeria: The Social Significance of Raï ,
* 2003 : Tullia Magrini, Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean — chapter 14: “‘And She Sang a New Song’: Gender and Music on the Sacred Landscapes of the Mediterranean” ,
* 2005 : Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , p33: §2
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).As a noun rai is
a member of an ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of nepal.raw
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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
Synonyms
* See also * (without a condom)Derived terms
* (l)Adverb
(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
* *rai
English
Noun
(-)- Rai arrives in the US, in some ways, as the latest rage to hit the World Music record bins, the result of a new post-modern global marketing strategy.
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- This chapter deals with raï' music from Algeria. Since its emergence in the late 1970s, '''raï''' has spread throughout the world and stands today as an exponent of “World Music”. The chapter traces a transnational process that has taken place in the 1980s: the diffusion of '''raï''' from the cabarets of Oran (the second largest city of Algeria) to the stereo racks in the West. It evokes the existence of different places and spaces for the consumption of ' raï .
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- In France, raï'’s lack of commercial success was thought to have been caused by hidden French racism and the subsequent de facto absence of '''raï''' on commercial radio and prime-time television. All in all, it did seem difficult to “sell an Arab” to a Western audience, as was the case, for example, with Cheb Mami’s U.S.-recorded album “Let me ' raï ”, released during the Gulf War.
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- The rise of raï' has paralleled the rise of Islamism in Algerian society, despite its mixing the male and female roles of musical production and consumption. Indeed, the paradox is at first glance perplexing because one might expect the critical message of '''raï''' to be anti-Islamist. The rhetoric of '''raï''', however, does not contradict the rise of Islamism in Algeria, and therefore it acquires the potential to complement religious fundamentalism. ' Raï and Islam do not so much occupy the same space as draw a cluster of public discussions and debates about gender into the same discourse (Schade-Poulsen 1996, 148–53; compare Bohlman 2000, 293–96).
- At least three conflicting varieties of Raï drifted in through the open doorway of the bus, blasting from cafés in the square.