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RAW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raw mean?
• RAW (noun)
The noun RAW has 1 sense:
1. informal terms for nakedness
Familiarity information: RAW used as a noun is very rare.
• RAW (adjective)
The adjective RAW has 13 senses:
1. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
2. having the surface exposed and painful
3. not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
4. not processed or refined
5. devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
6. brutally unfair or harsh
7. not processed or subjected to analysis
8. untempered and unrefined
9. hurting
10. unpleasantly cold and damp
11. used of wood and furniture
12. lacking training or experience
13. (used informally) completely unclothed
Familiarity information: RAW used as an adjective is familiar.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Informal terms for nakedness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
altogether; birthday suit; raw
Context example:
in his birthday suit
Hypernyms ("raw" is a kind of...):
nakedness; nudeness; nudity (the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
Synonyms:
Context example:
bales of rude cotton
Similar:
unprocessed (not altered from an original or natural state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having the surface exposed and painful
Context example:
a raw wound
Similar:
injured (harmed)
Derivation:
rawness (a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
Similar:
half-baked; underdone (insufficiently cooked)
rare ((of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside)
uncooked (not cooked)
untoasted (not having been browned by exposure to heat)
Antonym:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not processed or refined
Context example:
raw sewage
Similar:
untreated (not subjected to chemical or physical treatment)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
Synonyms:
naked; raw
Context example:
you may kill someone someday with your raw power
Similar:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Brutally unfair or harsh
Context example:
a raw deal
Similar:
unfair; unjust (not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Not processed or subjected to analysis
Synonyms:
crude; raw
Context example:
only the crude vital statistics
Similar:
unanalyzed (not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination)
Derivation:
rawness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Untempered and unrefined
Context example:
raw beauty
Similar:
unpolished (not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Hurting
Synonyms:
Context example:
the tender spot on his jaw
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
Derivation:
rawness (a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched))
Sense 10
Meaning:
Unpleasantly cold and damp
Synonyms:
Context example:
bleak winds of the North Atlantic
Similar:
cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)
Derivation:
rawness (a chilly dampness)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Used of wood and furniture
Synonyms:
raw; unsanded
Context example:
raw wood
Similar:
unfinished (not brought to the desired final state)
Sense 12
Meaning:
Lacking training or experience
Synonyms:
new; raw
Context example:
raw recruits
Similar:
inexperienced; inexperient (lacking practical experience or training)
Derivation:
rawness (lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience)
Sense 13
Meaning:
(used informally) completely unclothed
Synonyms:
bare-ass; bare-assed; in the altogether; in the buff; in the raw; naked as a jaybird; peeled; raw; stark naked
Similar:
unclothed (not wearing clothing)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples
The process of taking raw food and producing a finished meal.
(Food Preparation, NCI Thesaurus)
Don't eat raw or undercooked meat.
(Infections and Pregnancy, NIH)
He stood, gazing stupidly across at White Fang, the raw, red shin-bone between them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It can be in a variety of raw foods as well as in processed foods and foods made from unpasteurized milk.
(Listeria Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The blanket socks were worn through in places, and his feet were raw and bleeding.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"My belief is, doctor," he said, "that he has eaten his birds, and that he just took and ate them raw!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The release of the raw, uncalibrated data collected will aid astronomers in preparing proposals due this month to use telescopes on Earth next winter to further investigate TRAPPIST-1.
(NASA's Kepler Provides Another Peek at Ultra-cool Neighbor, NASA)
With nuts, that includes whether they are raw, roasted, or ground, and even how well they are chewed.
(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
They reanalyzed published results as well as all accessible raw data, both published and unpublished.
(Over 100 Genetic Sites Tied to Schizophrenia, NIH)
Researchers used corn starch, an abundant, cheap and biodegradable raw material, to develop microcapsules as a container to release thyme essential oil into the water.
(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)
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