crude

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  crude    turpentine  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crude/kruːd/

▶adjective

• 1 in a natural or raw state; not yet processed or refined: crude oil.

• 2 made or done in a rudimentary or makeshift way: a relatively crude nuclear weapon.

  ■ (of an estimate) approximate.

• 3 offensively coarse or rude, especially in relation to sexual matters.

• 4 Statistics (of figures) not adjusted or corrected.

▶noun natural mineral oil.

– derivatives
crudely adverb,
crudeness noun,
crudity noun.

– origin ME: from L. crudus ‘raw, rough’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
turpentine /ˈtəːp(ə)ntʌɪn/

▶noun

• 1 (also crude or gum turpentine) an oleoresin secreted by certain pines and other trees and distilled to make rosin and oil of turpentine.

• 2 (also oil of turpentine) a volatile pungent oil distilled from this, used in mixing paints and varnishes and in liniment.

▶verb apply turpentine to.

– origin ME: from OFr. ter(e)bentine, from L. ter(e)binthina (resina) ‘(resin) of the terebinth’.