Crude
adjective
Not well-made or well-done.
He made a crude attempt at fixing the car.
Often appears as...
- crude attempt
- crude workmanship
adjective
Rude and offensive.
His crude jokes embarrassed everyone in the room.
Often appears as...
- crude jokes
- crude language
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Disapproving
adjective
In its natural or raw form; not yet processed or refined.
The crude oil was processed into gasoline.
Often appears as...
- crude oil
- crude materials
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Technical
adjective
Not thought out or planned carefully, not detailed.
He gave us a crude outline of his plan.
Often appears as...
- crude plan
- crude model
adjective
Not well-made or well-done.
He made a crude attempt at fixing the car.
Often appears as...
- crude attempt
- crude workmanship
adjective
Rude and offensive.
His crude jokes embarrassed everyone in the room.
Often appears as...
- crude jokes
- crude language
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
In its natural or raw form; not yet processed or refined.
The crude oil was processed into gasoline.
Often appears as...
- crude oil
- crude materials
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not thought out or planned carefully, not detailed.
He gave us a crude outline of his plan.
Often appears as...
- crude plan
- crude model
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Incomplete Skill
Used when something is done without expertise or looks amateurish.
His painting was a crude representation of a sunset.
Pro Tip 2/2Lacks Precision
Indicates a lack of attention to detail or refinement in a craft or work.
The sculpture was impressive but had a certain crude quality to it.
Pro Tip 1/2Incomplete Skill
Used when something is done without expertise or looks amateurish.
His painting was a crude representation of a sunset.
Pro Tip 2/2Lacks Precision
Indicates a lack of attention to detail or refinement in a craft or work.
The sculpture was impressive but had a certain crude quality to it.
Pro Tip 1/2Incomplete Skill
Used when something is done without expertise or looks amateurish.
His painting was a crude representation of a sunset.
Pro Tip 2/2Lacks Precision
Indicates a lack of attention to detail or refinement in a craft or work.
The sculpture was impressive but had a certain crude quality to it.
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Why city flags may be...
Design-wise, it manages to both be too crude and have too many details at the same time, which if you were trying for that, you wouldn't be able to do it, and it just looks bad at a distance, but having deep meaning puts that element in the plus column. Behind the phoenix, the background is mostly white,
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Chris Urmson: How a...
The first, most crude model of this is when one vehicle sees a construction zone, having another know about it so it can be in the correct lane to avoid some of the difficulty. But we actually have a much deeper understanding of this. We could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time,
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Richard Sears: Planning...
of crude oil still to be developed and produced in the world today. Now, that's just one story about oil, and we could end it there and say, "Well, oil's going to last forever because, well, there's just a lot of it." But there's actually more to the story than that.
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How do blood transfusions...
medics safely stored and preserved liters of blood, wheeling it directly onto the battlefield to transfuse wounded soldiers. After the war, this crude portable box would become the inspiration for the modern-day blood bank, a fixture of hospitals around the world.
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What if AI learned more...
is such a crude plan like who would listen to some random high schooler it's almost like an AI I wrote my strategy here thankfully there are some amazing people out there who are willing to lend me a helping hand so that's some where I walked into open AI
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Thoughts on humanity,...
I think both of us were going through our midlife crisis, and humanity, like me, was becoming an overexposed prima donna. I started to sell everything, from hair oil to diesel generators. Humanity was buying everything from crude oil to nuclear reactors.
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Malcolm Gladwell: The...
and all kinds of other impediments. And all sorts of people, moving up to the First World War and between the wars, tried to solve this problem, and nearly everybody came up short. The bombsights that were available were incredibly crude.
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Calculating The Odds of...
and given similar conditions elsewhere, life will happen. So the number two is a very important number here. Scientists, including SETI researchers, often tend to make very crude estimates and acknowledge that there are very large
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Rockets 101 PIPE National...
military forces around the world began to apply these new scientific understandings to the battlefield, transforming the earlier, crude rockets into powerful weapons of war. However, the true dawn of space rocketry
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Plankton, a Thank You...
that wouldn't be bad no nothing do we feel important to you now the food you eat the air you breathe come on people all right hold on I'm not finished crude oil ancient dead plankton trapped in the rocks
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Why city flags may be...
Design-wise, it manages to both be too crude and have too many details at the same time, which if you were trying for that, you wouldn't be able to do it, and it just looks bad at a distance, but having deep meaning puts that element in the plus column. Behind the phoenix, the background is mostly white,
Video examples
Chris Urmson: How a...
The first, most crude model of this is when one vehicle sees a construction zone, having another know about it so it can be in the correct lane to avoid some of the difficulty. But we actually have a much deeper understanding of this. We could take all of the data that the cars have seen over time,
Video examples
Richard Sears: Planning...
of crude oil still to be developed and produced in the world today. Now, that's just one story about oil, and we could end it there and say, "Well, oil's going to last forever because, well, there's just a lot of it." But there's actually more to the story than that.
Video examples
How do blood transfusions...
medics safely stored and preserved liters of blood, wheeling it directly onto the battlefield to transfuse wounded soldiers. After the war, this crude portable box would become the inspiration for the modern-day blood bank, a fixture of hospitals around the world.
Video examples
What if AI learned more...
is such a crude plan like who would listen to some random high schooler it's almost like an AI I wrote my strategy here thankfully there are some amazing people out there who are willing to lend me a helping hand so that's some where I walked into open AI
Video examples
Thoughts on humanity,...
I think both of us were going through our midlife crisis, and humanity, like me, was becoming an overexposed prima donna. I started to sell everything, from hair oil to diesel generators. Humanity was buying everything from crude oil to nuclear reactors.
Video examples
Malcolm Gladwell: The...
and all kinds of other impediments. And all sorts of people, moving up to the First World War and between the wars, tried to solve this problem, and nearly everybody came up short. The bombsights that were available were incredibly crude.
Video examples
Calculating The Odds of...
and given similar conditions elsewhere, life will happen. So the number two is a very important number here. Scientists, including SETI researchers, often tend to make very crude estimates and acknowledge that there are very large
Video examples
Rockets 101 PIPE National...
military forces around the world began to apply these new scientific understandings to the battlefield, transforming the earlier, crude rockets into powerful weapons of war. However, the true dawn of space rocketry
Video examples
Plankton, a Thank You...
that wouldn't be bad no nothing do we feel important to you now the food you eat the air you breathe come on people all right hold on I'm not finished crude oil ancient dead plankton trapped in the rocks
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
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Donald E. Westlake
American Writer
The critics didn't like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. 'Point Blank' marked a shift in movie-making, and they weren't ready for it. However, I think those were the last negative words ever said about it.
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Anton Seidl
Hungarian Celebrity
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
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Franz Wright
American Poet
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
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Sam Raimi
American Director
I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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Walt Disney
American Businessman
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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Emilio Estevez
American Actor
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
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Timothy Noah
American Journalist
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
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Ellen Glasgow
American Novelist
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
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Donald E. Westlake
American Writer
The critics didn't like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. 'Point Blank' marked a shift in movie-making, and they weren't ready for it. However, I think those were the last negative words ever said about it.
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Anton Seidl
Hungarian Celebrity
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
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Franz Wright
American Poet
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
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Sam Raimi
American Director
I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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Walt Disney
American Businessman
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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Emilio Estevez
American Actor
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
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Timothy Noah
American Journalist
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
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Ellen Glasgow
American Novelist
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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