RAW

adj. living, alive; uncooked; unprocessed, unrefined; inexperienced, novice; painful, tender; crude, vulgar

n. wound, injury, sore

Raw describes a material that is in its natural unprocessed form, or has not had the final stages of processing. For example, raw food refers to food that has not been cooked, and raw silk is the term for unprocessed silk. Raw also has symbolic meaning. See Claude Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and the Cooked
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Radio Warwick or RaW is the student radio station at the University of Warwick and winner of the 2000 and 2003 BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Association Best Station awards. Formerly known as W963, during the years when broadcasts were conducted via an induction loop around the university campus on 963 kHz AM, Radio Warwick now broadcasts from the top of the Students' Union South building on 1251 kHz AM to the campus and on FM for four weeks each year to Coventry, Kenilworth and surrounding areas. Radio Warwick also streams all its output online.
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Noun
1. informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"
(synonym) altogether, birthday suit
(hypernym) nakedness, nudity, nudeness
Adjective
1. (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
(synonym) natural, raw(a), rude(a)
(similar) unprocessed
2. having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
(similar) injured
3. not treated with heat to prepare it for eating
(antonym) cooked
(similar) half-baked, underdone
4. not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
(similar) untreated
5. devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
(synonym) naked
(similar) overt, open
6. brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
(similar) unfair, unjust
7. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
(synonym) crude
(similar) unanalyzed
8. untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
(similar) unpolished
9. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
(synonym) bleak, cutting
(similar) cold
10. inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore throat"
(synonym) sore
(similar) unhealthy
11. used of wood and furniture; "raw wood"
(synonym) raw(a), unsanded
(similar) unfinished
12. lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he was still wet behind the ears when he shipped as a hand on a merchant vessel"
(synonym) new, wet behind the ears(p)
(similar) inexperienced
13. (used informally) completely unclothed
(synonym) bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked
(similar) unclothed
(classification) colloquialism

(superl.)
Sore, as if by being galled.
  

(superl.)
Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
  

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

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

(superl.)
Not tanned; as, raw hides
  

(superl.)
Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
  

(superl.)
Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
  

(superl.)
Not distilled; as, raw water
  

(superl.)
Not covered; bare.
  

(superl.)
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.
  

(superl.)
Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.
  

(superl.)
Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
  

(superl.)
Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
  

(superl.)
Bald.
  

(n.)
A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.
  

<operating system> A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system.
Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken.
Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
[Jargon File]
(2002-04-14)