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(of food) Not cooked.
aggettivo
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(of food) Not cooked.
There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
He ate raw beef for dinner.
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(of food) Not cooked. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
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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.
raw cane sugar
raw sewage
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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.[…]’
a raw wound
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New or inexperienced.
a raw beginner
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Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
a raw voice
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Uncorrected, without analysis.
What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
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Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
a raw wind
a raw and gusty day
[…] I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, […]
He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
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Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
raw emotion
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Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
a raw description of the American political arena
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Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
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gergoWithout a condom.
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obsoletoNot covered; bare; bald.
with scull all raw
Etimologia
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”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rå (“raw”), Faroese ráur (“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. Doublet of crude.
avverbio
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gergoWithout a condom.
We did it raw.
You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw
sostantivo
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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.
Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
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A galled place; an inveterate sore.
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figuratoA point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
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.
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gergoUnadulterated narcotics, especially crack cocaine
The year is '94, in my trunk is raw
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gergoA recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
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gergoA scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
verbo
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gergoTo sexually penetrate without a condom.
Forme
- plurale
- raws
- comparativo
- rawer
- superlativo
- rawest
- passato
- rawed
- participio passato
- rawed
- participio presente
- rawing
- 3ª persona singolare
- raws