Definition of Raw

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Definition of Raw

Raw

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.

Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.

Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.

Not distilled; as, raw water

Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton

Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits

Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow

Not tanned; as, raw hides

Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.

Not covered; bare.

Bald.

Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

Sore, as if by being galled.

Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.

A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.

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Raw Quotations

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.
Mickey Rourke

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.
Sandra Bullock

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
David Ricardo

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
John Polkinghorne

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Raw Translations

raw in Afrikaans is rou
raw in Dutch is grof, bot, onbewerkt, onbehouwen, cru
raw in Finnish is raaka
raw in French is brut, rugueux, cru
raw in German is roh, Original, Rauh, roh
raw in Italian is grezzo, scabro
raw in Latin is rudis
raw in Portuguese is cru
raw in Spanish is bronco, crudo

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