raw

UK /ɹɔː/ US /ɹɔː/
noun 7adj 5name 2adv 1verb 1

Definitions

adj

1

(of food) Not cooked.

There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.

He ate raw beef for dinner.

2

(of food) Not cooked.

I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.

3

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

4

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

5

New or inexperienced.

a raw beginner

adv

1

Without a condom.

We did it raw.

You know what I be on, I'm about to go raw

noun

1

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.

2

A galled place; an inveterate sore.

3

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.

4

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

5

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

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