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Definition of CRUDE

Crude
Crude Crude (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. Cruder (-[~e]r); superl. Crudest.] [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.] 1. In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. ``Common crude salt.' --Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. --I. Taylor. 2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. 3. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. ``Crude projects.' --Macaulay. Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. --De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. --Milton. 4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. ``Crude and inconcoct.' --Bacon. 5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner. 6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Meaning of CRUDE from wikipedia

- Look up crude in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crude can refer to: Crude oil or simply crude, the unprocessed form of petroleum Crude (2007 film), an...
- both to naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Conventional reserves of petroleum...
- Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea...
- two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction...
- Synthetic crude is the output from a bitumen/extra heavy oil upgrader facility used in connection with oil sand production. It may also refer to shale...
- refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol)...
- benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference...
- is called sour crude oil. Sweet crude oil contains small amounts of hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide. High-quality, low-sulfur crude oil is commonly...
- : 189 [verification needed] An important specific mortality rate measure is the crude death rate, which looks at mortality from all causes in a given time interval...
- Heavy crude oil (or extra heavy crude oil) is highly viscous oil that cannot easily flow from production wells under normal reservoir conditions. It is...