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Any substance in its natural state.
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Crude oil.
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In a natural, untreated state.
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crude oil
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Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
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a crude shelter
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Lacking concealing elements.
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a crude truth
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Lacking tact or taste.
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a crude remark
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Immature or unripe.
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(grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
Examples of crude in a Sentence
They were very rough and crude, but strong and serviceable.
Beyond them was a crude wooden floored arena hedged by rows of shouting people.
There was a crude map to the Pacific Crest Inn.
Pop. (1901), 4135 It is in the midst of the oil region of Canada, and numerous wells in the vicinity have an aggregate output of about 30,000,000 gallons of crude oil per annum, much of which is refined in the town.
Soon I felt the need of some communication with others and began to make crude signs.
Some of the more viscous crude oils obtained in the United States are employed as lubricants under the name of " natural oils," either without any treatment or after clarification by subsidence and filtration through animal charcoal.
This movie is rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, violence, and language.
To this period belongs his first crude literary effort, a polemic against a Genevese pastor who had criticized Rousseau.
Paraffins are found in all crude oils, and olefines in varying proportions in the majority, while acetylene has been found in Baku oil; members of the benzene group and its derivatives, notably benzene and toluene, occur in all petroleums. Naphthenes are the chief components of some oils, as already indicated, and occur in varying quantities in many others.
These reservoirs are filled with gallons of yellow to black crude oil.
The artists were generally anonymous, since the material tended to be quite crude and a bit racist.
The crude solid product from the tar distillate is digested with carbon bisulphide to dissolve the pyrene, the solution filtered and the solvent evaporated.
Petroleum, also known as crude oil, is used for generating electricity and for manufacturing.
Petroleum has very long been known as a source of light and heat, while the use of crude oil for the treatment of wounds and cutaneous affections, and as a lubricant, was even more general and led to the raw material being an article of commerce at a still earlier date.
More than half of these were crude materials for manufactures.
Crude and elementary to us now, but they are certainly the forerunner of modern decorative painting techniques.
A free chat room usually has a set list of rules, such as no profanity or crude nicknames.
The content of these games may be suitable for ages 13 and over and could contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood and infrequent use of strong language.
These descriptors include animated blood, cartoon violence, crude humor, fantasy violence, partial nudity, some adult assistance may be needed, strong sexual content, and use of tobacco.
The designation "Everyone" indicates the game is for players ages six and older and may contain minimal violence or crude language.
Toddlers develop the ability to manipulate objects with increasing sophistication, including using their fingers to twist dials, pull strings, push levers, turn book pages, and use crayons to produce crude scribbles.
Prison tattoo techniques are usually very crude, in marked contrast to the highly skilled art practiced in Japan and also performed in the United States and in Europe.
These pipelines often carry natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil and slurry.
Nut and plant sources of Omega-3 fatty acids actually require some filtering and refinement by the human body - much like crude oil needs to be refined.
It is made by separating the wax from crude mineral oil.
Unlike paraffin waxes that contain crude oil byproducts, soy wax is natural and biodegradable and, therefore, ideal for people who desire an environmentally-friendly non-toxic product.
Both soy and beeswax are natural products compared to paraffin wax which is a byproduct of crude oil; so if you're looking to make environmentally friendly non-toxic candles, soy and beeswax are amongst your better options.
Crude or unrefined petroleum needs a special air-spray pressure burner for its use, and this suffers from the disadvantage of being noisy.
The most common type of wax used in making candles is paraffin wax, a hydrocarbon that is a byproduct of the refinement process of crude oil.
These games range from very crude and simplistic to surprisingly intricate and advanced.
More than just the cost of drilling, producing and refining crude oil goes into the cost of gasoline.
Such tattoos are given with crude tattooing instruments.
While it's appropriate to use it in Québec, if you're visiting Haiti, Belgium or parts of Africa that still speak French, they'll find your response très gauche, (very crude) as will people in France.
For pharmaceutical purposes crude petroleum is no longer generally used by civilized races, though the product vaseline is largely employed in this way, and emulsions of petroleum have been administered internally in various pectoral complaints; while the volatile product termed rhigolene has been largely used as a local anaesthetic.
Of the vegetable oils, in addition to cotton-seed and coco-nut, olive oil is the basis of soaps for calico printers and silk dyers; castor oil yields transparent soaps (under suitable treatment), whilst crude palm oil, with bone fat, is employed for making brown soap, and after bleaching it yields ordinary pale or mottled.
The crude product is very impure and possesses an offensive smell; it may be purified by forcing a fine spray of lime water through the liquid until the escaping water is quite clear, the washed bisulphide being then mixed with a little colourless oil and distilled at a low temperature.
The crude oil is used on some of the Peruvian railways.
The production of crude petroleum has grown very rapidly since about 1895.
Mixing with the coal gas oil gas, obtained by decomposing crude oils by heat.
The felspar decomposes into kaolin and quartz; its alkalis are for the most part set free and removed in solution, but are partly retained in the white mica which is constantly found in crude china-clays.
Lisa ignored his crude implication and kept her attention on his mother.
The heat and pressure from the added layers created crude oil.
Colin Farrell's role on Ballykissangel brought attention to his acting talent, and he was cast in his first film, 1997's Drinking Crude.
Homer stumbles through life as a crude, clumsy, lazy, overeating character who is extremely loyal to and protective of his family.
The most common type of candle wax, it is a byproduct of crude oil.
Adze.com home page looks a little crude, but a click takes you into a romantic compatibility link.
Rated PG-13 for crude humor, sexual content, drug references, language, and brief nudity, You, Me & Dupree promises to be a hit with young and old alike.
My Super Ex-Girldfriend is rated PG-13 for language, crude humor, sexual content, and brief nudity.
For instance, when you buy one gallon of gas, approximately 70 percent of the total cost you pay per gallon is going for the purchase of the actual crude oil it takes to make the gasoline.
Over the years, many storylines focused on control of Ewing Oil, oil fields and the up and down price of crude oil.