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raw

adj
/ɹɔː/UK/ɹɔ/US/ɹɑ/

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”), 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.

  1. derived from *krewh₂-✻
  2. inherited from *hrawaz✻
  3. inherited from *hrau✻
  4. inherited from hrēaw
  5. inherited from rawe

Definitions

  1. (of food) Not cooked.

    • There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
    • He ate raw beef for dinner.

  2. Not treated or processed

    Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)

    • raw cane sugar
    • raw sewage

  3. Having had the skin removed or abraded

    Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

    • a raw wound
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. New or inexperienced.

      • a raw beginner

    2. Crude in quality

      Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

      • a raw voice

    3. Uncorrected, without analysis.

      • What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

    4. 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, […]

    5. Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)

      • raw emotion

    6. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.

      • a raw description of the American political arena

    7. Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of…

      Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)

    8. Without a condom.

    9. Not covered

      Not covered; bare; bald.

      • with scull all raw

    10. An unprocessed sugar

      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.

    11. A galled place

      A galled place; an inveterate sore.

    12. A 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.

    13. A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

    14. A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process)…

      A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

    15. To sexually penetrate without a condom.

    16. Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing.

    17. Abbreviation of rules as written

      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).

    18. Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.

    19. A surname from Old English.

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Derived

come the raw prawn, hit a raw nerve, in the raw, Johnny Raw, nonraw, on the raw, raw bar, rawboned, raw-boned, rawbones, raw data, raw deal, raw dog, raw foodism, raw foodist, raw-head and bloody-bones, rawhide, rawish, rawism, rawist, raw lobster, rawly, raw material, raw milk, raw mill, raw nerve, rawness, raw papaya, raw sewage, raw sienna, raw silk, rawstock, rawstyle, raw sugar, raw water, red raw, ree-raw, semiraw, touch a raw nerve

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at raw. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at raw. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at raw

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA