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noun

Material n. The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

Raw material, any crude, unfinished, or elementary materials that are adapted to use only by processes of skilled labor. Cotton, wool, ore, logs, etc., are raw material.

adjective

Raw adj. (compar. rawer; superl. rawest)

1.

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.

2.

Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. "Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude."

3.

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

(a)

Not distilled; as, raw water. (Obs.)

(b)

Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.

(c)

Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits.

(d)

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

(e)

Not tanned; as, raw hides.

(f)

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

4.

Not covered; bare. Specifically:

(a)

Bald. (Obs.) "With skull all raw."

(b)

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

(c)

Sore, as if by being galled. "And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment."

5.

Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. "A raw and gusty day."

Raw material, material that has not been subjected to a (specified) process of manufacture; as, ore is the raw material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of the shoe industry.

Raw pig, cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.

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"Raw material" Quotes from Famous Books

... having often been compelled to resist the attacks of banditti, who have ever been ready to organize a descent upon any place where portable treasure is accumulated. We were told, on good authority, that every ton of raw material handled here yields on an average thirty-three dollars. This figure our informant qualified by the remark that it was the average under ordinary circumstances. Sometimes the miners strike what is called a bonanza, and for a while ore is raised from the bowels of the ...

— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou

... applied mathematics to that forty-pound melon. One of these seeds, put into the ground, when warmed by the sun and moistened by the rain, takes off its coat and goes to work; it gathers from somewhere two hundred thousand times its own weight, and forcing this raw material through a tiny stem, constructs a watermelon. It ornaments the outside with a covering of green; inside the green it puts a layer of white, and within the white a core of red, and all through the red it scatters seeds, each one capable of continuing ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

... London the people who can afford it pay taxes for air, and grass is a dollar a blade. Being born is the only really free thing—and dying. Next to these in any just estimate of the comparatively free raw material that goes to the making of a human life comes the ...

— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee

... in fairness, be deducted the value of all the raw cotton which is returned to America; and, in fact, if the true exchange trade would be seen, all should be deducted that is exported from England. That portion of cotton goods which is of English origin, that is, their value above the raw material out of which they were made, is, in fact, the only real part of English export. Before exclusive importance was bestowed on cotton, the exchange with America was in a large proportion of articles not to be returned. It would be so again if ...

— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge

... was, of course, one of the most remarkable men in the country; but he really was a notorious person besides. He was usually described by his friends, in the South and West, as 'a splendid sample of our na-tive raw material, sir,' and was much esteemed for his devotion to rational Liberty; for the better propagation whereof he usually carried a brace of revolving pistols in his coat pocket, with seven barrels a-piece. ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

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