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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.
James Buchan

Meaning of "crude" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CRUDE

From Latin crūdus bloody, raw; related to Latin cruor blood.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CRUDE

crude  [kruːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRUDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crude can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CRUDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of crude in the English dictionary

The first definition of crude in the dictionary is lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgar. Other definition of crude is in a natural or unrefined state. Crude is also lacking care, knowledge, or skill.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRUDE


brood
bruːd
detrude
dɪˈtruːd
extrude
ɪkˈstruːd
foulbrood
ˈfaʊlˌbruːd
Froude
fruːd
Holyrood
ˈhɒlɪˌruːd
home-brewed
ˈhəʊmˌbruːd
intrude
ɪnˈtruːd
Nimrud
nɪmˈruːd
obtrude
əbˈtruːd
overrude
ˌəʊvəˈruːd
protrude
prəˈtruːd
prude
pruːd
rood
ruːd
rude
ruːd
screwed
skruːd
shrewd
ʃruːd
subtrude
sʌbˈtruːd
unaccrued
ˌʌnəˈkruːd
uncrewed
ʌnˈkruːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRUDE

cruciverbal
cruciverbalism
cruciverbalist
cruck
crud
cruddier
cruddiest
cruddle
cruddy
crude oil
crude steel
crudely
Cruden
crudeness
crudity
crudy
cruel
cruelly
cruelness

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRUDE

altitude
amplitude
attitude
Claude
conclude
dude
exclude
gratitude
heavy crude
include
Jude
latitude
longitude
magnitude
multitude
nude
order of magnitude
prelude
solitude
unrude

Synonyms and antonyms of crude in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CRUDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «crude» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of crude

Translation of «crude» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRUDE

Find out the translation of crude to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of crude from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crude» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

简陋的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

burdo
570 millions of speakers

English

crude
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कच्चे तेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فَظّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грубый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bruto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অশোধিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brut
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

mentah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

primitiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

粗雑な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

천연 그대로의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Crude
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கச்சா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रूड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ham
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grezzo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

surowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

грубий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

simplu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακατέργαστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ru
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grov
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crude

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRUDE»

The term «crude» is very widely used and occupies the 13.983 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRUDE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «crude» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «crude» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about crude

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10 QUOTES WITH «CRUDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word crude.
1
Timothy Garton Ash
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
2
Lionel Blue
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
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William Boyd
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
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James Henry Breasted
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
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James Buchan
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.
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Georg Buchner
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
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Mario Cantone
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
8
Sarah Churchwell
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
9
Peter DeFazio
First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
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Peter DeFazio
In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRUDE»

Discover the use of crude in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to crude and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Crude: The Story of Oil
Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life.
Sonia Shah, 2011
2
Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, ...
Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies.
Suzana Sawyer, 2004
3
Oilfield Processing of Petroleum: Crude oil
This text is the definitive source on its topic and contains numerous diagrams and appendices, as well as case histories and review questions with numerical problems.
Francis S. Manning, Richard E. Thompson (Ph.D.), Richard E. Thompson, 1995
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Crude Oil Chemistry
The book thoroughly evaluates the chemistry and processing of low API gravity high-sulfur heavy crude oil increasingly relied on in the industry.
Vasily Simanzhenkov, Raphael Idem, 2003
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Crude Oil Waxes, Emulsions, and Asphaltenes
This book is the first of its kind in explaining the physical chemical problems associated with waxes and emulsions and the new technologies for treatment of these problems.
J. R. Becker, 1997
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Crude Power: Politics and the Oil Market
Crude Power provides a comprehensive analysis both of the world's dependency on Middle Eastern oil, and of the very dangerous way politics and economics play themselves out in the oil game - as producers and consumers tug at each others' ...
Oystein Noreng, 2006
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Crude Dreams: A Personal History of Oil & Politics in Alaska
Jack Roderick's story of oil and politics in Alaska reads like a novel as he tells of the risky, expensive, and mostly frustrating search for oil across the 49th state. Oil companies watch one another jealously.
Jack Roderick, 1997
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Crude World
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Peter Maass, 2009
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Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize
This book is the ultimate reference work on oil in Africa - which is vital to everyone's future around the world.
Duncan Clarke, 2010
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Heavy Crude Oils: From Geology to Upgrading : an Overview
The voluntarily wide scope of this volume encompasses geology, production, transportation, upgrading, economics and environmental issues of heavy oils.
Alain-Yves Huc, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRUDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term crude is used in the context of the following news items.
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It's time to lift the US ban on crude-oil exports
In the 1970s, the U.S. government banned crude-oil exports in reaction to the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) driving ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
2
Baltimore officials to host hearing on crude oil transported along …
Port Deposit, MD -- A Norfolk-Southern train transporting crude oil heads north through Port Deposit past a railroad crossing near the U.S. Post ... «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
3
Goldman Sachs maintains bearish outlook on crude
Goldman Sachs on Wednesday reiterated its bearish outlook for crude oil prices and said developments in Greece could aggravate price ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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History shows crude could fall another 45%: Expert
Gunzberg pointed to the declines in 1985 to 1986, 1997 to 1998 and most recently 2008 to 2009, where crude oil fell 75 percent in a little more ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
5
US crude slump cools, market awaits inventory data
U.S. crude CLc1 settled down 20 cents at $51.98 a barrel, a three-month ... U.S. crude has fallen about 17 percent since its May high of $62.58. «Reuters, Jul 15»
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US crude oil inventories rise for a second week
The latest data from the Energy Information Administration showed that commercial crude inventories rose by 384,000 barrels in the week ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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SpiceJet Hints at Fare Cut on Falling Crude Prices
Brent crude prices are trading below $60 per barrel for the first time since mid-April because of a slump in commodity prices, triggered by ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
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Enbridge raises rates on Canadian crude exports to Texas
Just as the door cracks open for speculative Canadian crude exports to the U.S. Gulf Coast, Enbridge Inc. is pushing it shut. For shippers ... «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»
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Crude output hits new high
Tankers have been busier as crude output from OPEC countries reached its highest level since August 2012. Rises in Saudi Arabia and Iraq ... «TradeWinds, Jul 15»
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API data reportedly show US crude supply down 958000 barrels
The American Petroleum Institute late Tuesday reported that crude supplies fell 958,000 barrels for the week ended July 3, according to ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»

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