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- 1 (of food) Not cooked.
"There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer."
- 2 (of food) Not cooked.; Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
"I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018."
- 3 Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
"Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml."
- 4 Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
"‘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.[…]’"
- 5 New or inexperienced.
"a raw beginner"
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- 6 Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
"a raw voice"
- 7 Uncorrected, without analysis.
"What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society."
- 8 Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
"a raw wind"
- 9 Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
"raw emotion"
- 10 Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
"a raw description of the American political arena"
- 11 Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
- 12 Without a condom. slang
- 13 Not covered; bare; bald. obsolete
"with scull all raw"
- 1 not processed or subjected to analysis wordnet
- 2 (used informally) completely unclothed wordnet
- 3 not treated with heat to prepare it for eating wordnet
- 4 lacking training or experience wordnet
- 5 brutally unfair or harsh wordnet
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- 6 used of wood and furniture wordnet
- 7 unpleasantly cold and damp wordnet
- 8 having the surface exposed and painful wordnet
- 9 devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure wordnet
- 10 hurting wordnet
- 11 untempered and unrefined wordnet
- 12 (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes wordnet
- 13 not processed or refined wordnet
- 1 Without a condom. slang
"We did it raw."
- 1 Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing. India, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, initialism
"RAW is a well-known acronym in India for an organization whose detailed character and activities are not well-known. RAW stands for the Research and Analysis Wing either of India's prime minister's department or the cabinet's secretariat, which was established in 1968 to handle internal intelligence."
- 2 A surname from Old English.
- 1 An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
"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."
- 2 Abbreviation of rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or to rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook). abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 3 informal terms for nakedness wordnet
- 4 A galled place; an inveterate sore.
- 5 Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 A point about which a person is particularly sensitive. broadly, figuratively
"In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal."
- 7 A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed. slang
- 8 A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated. slang
- 1 To sexually penetrate without a condom. slang, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.
Topographic surname for someone who lived at a hedgerow or at a row of houses, from Old English rāw (“row”).
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