crude

adj 1: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude

splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on

them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: {rough}]

2: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language";

"a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of

humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar

gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been

edited" [syn: {coarse}, {earthy}, {gross}, {vulgar}]

3: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn:

{unrefined}, {unprocessed}] [ant: {refined}]

4: belonging to an early stage of technical development;

characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the

crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early

man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living

conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: {primitive},

{rude}]

5: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the

blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality

of the deadline" [syn: {blunt}, {crude(a)}, {stark(a)}]

6: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw

cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"

[syn: {raw}]

n : a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: {petroleum},

{crude oil}, {coal oil}, {rock oil}, {fossil oil}]

rude

[WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program

that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor

design decisions. Opposite: {cuspy}.

2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard

for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)

problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without

resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep

forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare

{all-elbows}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1994-10-27)