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raw

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adjective

uncooked, as articles of food: a raw carrot.

not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture: raw cotton.

unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument.

painfully open, as a sore or wound.

crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste: raw humor.

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ignorant, inexperienced, or untrained: a raw recruit.

brutally or grossly frank: a raw portrayal of human passions.

brutally harsh or unfair: a raw deal; receiving raw treatment from his friends.

disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air: a raw, foggy day at the beach.

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not diluted, as alcoholic spirits: raw whiskey.

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unprocessed or unevaluated: raw data.

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noun

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a sore or irritated place, as on the flesh.

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unrefined sugar, oil, etc.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Idiom

14.

in the raw,

in the natural, uncultivated, or unrefined state: nature in the raw.

Informal. in the nude; naked: sunbathing in the raw.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English hrēaw, hrǣw; cognate with Dutch rauw, German roh; akin to Latin crūdus raw (see crude), cruor blood, Greek kréas raw flesh

Related forms

raw·ish, adjective

raw·ish·ness, noun

raw·ly, adverb

raw·ness, noun

half-raw, adjective

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sem·i·raw, adjective

sem·i·raw·ly, adverb

sem·i·raw·ness, noun

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Synonyms
2. unprepared, rough, makeshift. Raw, crude, rude refer to something not in a finished or highly refined state. Raw applies particularly to material not yet changed by a process, by manufacture, or by preparation for consumption: raw cotton; raw leather. Crude refers to that which still needs refining: crude petroleum. Rude refers to what is still in a condition of rough simplicity or in a makeshift or roughly made form: rude agricultural implements; the rude bridge that arched the flood. 6. undisciplined, green, unskilled, unpracticed. 9. cold, wet. 10. straight, neat.

Antonyms
1. cooked.

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Example Sentences

Raw food options have begun to appear on the menus of high-end restaurants and luxury resorts.

Colleges and universities have the raw materials with which to.

China's rapid growth is putting huge demands on world supplies of energy and other raw materials.

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Raw food options have begun to appear on the menus of high-end restaurants and luxury resorts.

Colleges and universities have the raw materials with which to.

China's rapid growth is putting huge demands on world supplies of energy and other raw materials.

In many parts of the world where sewage treatment is lacking, raw human waste spills into the open sea.

Mice gained more weight eating cooked food than raw food, indicating that preparing the food gives it a higher effective energy.

Foucan's performance is clearly something real, raw and primal.

But if you add crumbs to the raw meat, it will stay moist when safely cooked.

There is considerable excitement among silkdealers over a sudden rise in the price of raw silk.

If you stick to bottled water and avoid ice and raw fruit and veg, you should generally be fine for a short trip.

When you do the sums, he argues, raw meat is still insufficient to bridge the gap.

Researchers looking to expand our knowledge of viruses should dip into some raw sewage.

When manufactured, raw polystyrene is heated, rolled out into thin sheets and then rapidly cooled so that it can retain its shape.

Eat baby carrots raw with dips and spreads, or enjoy their sweet flavor when cooked.

Raw milk drinkers may praise its flavor or claim it is more nutritious than pasteurized milk.

They know the source of their raw materials, can detail their activities in key markets, and have global strategies.

China is bound to consume enormous amounts of raw materials as it develops.

Hardcore palolo connoisseurs grab the wriggling green-and-blue worms and swallow them raw on the spot.

People aren't the only animals who know when they've gotten a raw deal.

Plagued by years of overuse and raw sewage, the river is not immune to problems.

And purple-podded beans hold their color when sliced raw for salad but turn dark green when cooked.

The latest trend for the health-conscious is raw food.

Hundreds of talented, bold scholars are unpacking the raw materials of traditional humanities in new and exciting ways.

What actually sounds right and wrong to people, what they actually write and say, is the linguist's raw material.

How a recyclable stands up to the violent forces that re-form it into raw material for manufacturing determines its longevity.

Mice gained more weight eating cooked food than raw food, indicating that preparing the food.

The tiny differences between individuals in a population provide the raw material for natural.

Whether raw or cooked, shallots are delicious in dressings.

Ever since, there have been nagging doubts about the wisdom of consuming raw fish.

And, it is true, the raw data show that civil servants have better pensions and health care than the private sector workers:.

Speculators do play an important role in setting the price of oil and other raw materials.

China hopes to control destructive flooding and harness raw power.

The galaxy ends up with only a small fraction of the raw material.

Even today, lactose intolerant people can usually drink raw milk with absolutely no problem.

Offer spinach salad laced with ribbons of raw pumpkin and a bruschetta bar with a trio of savory toppings on crisp toasts.

In shades of pink, green and sunny yellow, this salad of cooked peas and raw squash is stunning and summery.

They opened my eyes to the raw power of the imagination.

The country has abundant raw materials, cheap labour and centuries of know-how.

Unifi's role in the process will be to texture the raw yarn so that it's suitable to knit or weave into fabric.

In their raw form, starches are not readily broken down by the enzymes in the human body.

It contains diamonds from dozens of supernovas and amino acids that could have provided the raw materials for early life forms.

Use this versatile green raw in salads, in stir-fry dishes, or as a cooked vegetable.

There is a growing trend to put white dog, or raw whiskey, on liquor store shelves.

Focus on the raw number of incidents is misleading and sensationalist.

Prices of raw materials are seeing widespread gains as talk of a.

Seabirds mistake raw plastic pellets spilled from container ships for fish eggs.

It will be seen that the baked apple and the raw egg are near the winning post, the egg being tied by the fish.

Atala and co-workers make replacement parts out of patients' own raw materials.

Peel off the rough brown skin and eat the white flesh raw or cooked add to my plant list.

Platters and utensils used for raw meat should never come into contact with cooked food.

To begin with, it amounts to a preference for concrete achievement over raw potential.

To compensate for this, a correction factor is routinely applied to the raw data.

Any utensil or surface that comes in contact with raw meat should be washed thoroughly with warm, soapy water.

As the tone changes there will be a point where raw energy is produced and the magnet will be jumping around in your hand.

Yes, the raw material is free, and peer reviewers are volunteers.

Roasted beets and a crisp medley of raw vegetables make a beautiful composed salad.

So if the problem is raw quantification without measurement of quality, how is counting eyeballs going to solve.

Economies are still ailing, and the cost of raw materials is climbing.

On a raw winter day you might think that a few degrees of warming wouldn't be such a bad thing anyway.

We do not have to use edible sugars to produce the raw materials.

Many foreigners enter rain forest environments in search of raw materials to extract for their own financial.

Instead of tortilla chips, you can serve guacamole with raw vegetables.

In a production view, the students would seem to be raw materials whom the intellectual workers turn into a useful product.

Part-time undergraduate students have long had a raw deal.

Raw winds blow out of the northwest, bending the scraggly sage.

Then, out flowed ammonia, the elusive raw material for producing synthetic fertilizer.

Without raw materials and an efficient immigration policy, they suffer.

It's delicious both raw and cooked, and does best in cool weather.

Most of the hires had some previous teaching experience but were still young and somewhat raw.

Businessmen are busily preparing to turn valuable raw materials into comet memorabilia.

They would later procure raw fish for the birds and set up a gas-fired hot water system for cleaning them.

We import virtually all our raw materials for those technologies from abroad.

Under all political language the substance is raw prejudice or animus.

There is nothing wrong with producing raw materials.

Antimatter is composed of electrons and protons, the raw materials of atoms, but with a whopping difference-the electrical charge.

Land fills will be mined for surplus items and raw resources in the future.

However, having the raw biological machinery of intelligence is simply irreplaceable.

The survey's conclusions are supported by the raw sales volume.

The rings of asteroids contain rocky, raw materials leftover from the formation of planets.

Non-organic formula can contain the same or higher amounts of chemical residues left over from its raw materials.

Even at colleges where the raw numbers aren't jaw-dropping, foreign students' increased presence is felt.

The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots.

Sharp eyesight and raw speed make the cheetah a formidable hunter.

The raw potential of natural gas production are too valuable and essential as fuel source to enact outright bans.

External tests treat students as uniform raw material coming in, and expect us to produce uniform products going out.

Much of the raw beef is cooked and canned at the plant.

Note that fruit pulp is acceptable whether it is raw or cooked and even if it still contains.

Your article about medical testing on chimpanzees struck a raw nerve.

The absences of all those individuals is more raw than if they had each died.

The price of uranium oxide, the raw feedstock required for nuclear reactors, was in the doldrums for nearly a generation.

It is the only vegetable oil that can be created simply by pressing the raw material-in this case, olives.

Even if the raw data was submitted and the data was reviewed by the editors, it still could be manipulated.

It imports raw materials and intermediate goods and exports final goods.

Aspiring cicada gourmands should begin by collecting the raw ingredients.

By that measure, raw materials have become more abundant, not scarcer.

Prehistoric treats such as tree sap, honeycomb, and raw sugarcane might not be popular anymore as stand-alone foods.

Mix the remaining raw meat with parsley, two eggs, and seasonings.

Objects that might be considered waste are turned back into raw materials that can be used in the manufacture of other items.

Also, our gut is not set up for processing raw items as effectively as cooked food.

Gustafson argues convincingly that skiers and snowboarders are hungry for the raw essence of the sport.

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World English Dictionary

raw (rɔː)

—*adj*
1.	(of food) not cooked: raw onion
2.	(prenominal) in an unfinished, natural, or unrefined state; not treated by manufacturing or other processes: raw materials for making steel; raw brick
3.	(of an edge of material) unhemmed; liable to fray
4.	(of the skin, a wound, etc) having the surface exposed or abraded, esp painfully
5.	ignorant, inexperienced, or immature: a raw recruit
6.	(prenominal) not selected or modified: raw statistics
7.	frank or realistic: a raw picture of the breakdown of a marriage
8.	(of spirits) undiluted
9.	chiefly (US) coarse, vulgar, or obscene
10.	chiefly (US) recently done; fresh: raw paintwork
11.	(of the weather) harshly cold and damp
12.	informal unfair; unjust (esp in the phrase a raw deal)

—n
13.	informal (Brit) the raw a sensitive point: his criticism touched me on the raw
14.	in the raw
	a. informal without clothes; naked
	b. in a natural or unmodified state: life in the raw

[Old English hreaw; related to Old High German hrao, Old Norse hrār raw, Latin cruor thick blood, Greek kreas meat]

'rawish

—*adj*

'rawly

—*adv*

'rawness

—n

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Word Origin & History

raw

O.E. hreaw "uncooked, raw," from P.Gmc. *khrawaz (cf. O.N. hrar, M.Du. rau, O.H.G. hrawer, Ger. roh), from PIE base *krowos "congealed, bloody" (cf. Skt. kravih "raw flesh," krura- "bloody, raw, hard;" Gk. kreas "flesh;" L. crudus "not cooked," cruor "thick blood;" O.Ir. cru, Lith. kraujas, O.C.S. kruvi

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"blood;" O.E. hrot "thick fluid, serum"). Meaning "tender, sore" is from c.1390; of persons, "inexperienced" from 1561; "damp and chilly" first recorded 1546. Rawhide is first attested 1658; raw material is from 1796. Phrase in the raw "naked" (1933) is from the raw "exposed flesh," attested from 1823. Raw deal "harsh treatment" first attested 1912.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

raw (rô)
adj. raw·er, raw·est

Having subcutaneous tissue exposed.
Inflamed; sore.

Slang Dictionary

raw definition

mod.
inexperienced; brand new. : The raw recruit did as well as could be expected.
mod.
vulgar; crude; raucous; untamed. : I've had enough of your raw humor.
mod.
[of alcoholic spirits] undiluted; neat. : I'll drink it raw—just the way it is now.
mod.
[of alcoholic spirits] unaged; fiery and strong. : My gosh, this stuff is raw! It'll burn a hole in me.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

raw

In addition to the idiom beginning with raw, also see in the altogether (raw).

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