different between early vs crude

English

Etymology

From Middle English erly, erli, from Old English ?rl??e, ?rl??e (“early; early in the morning”), equivalent to ere +? -ly. Cognate with Old Norse árla ( > Danish and Norwegian årle, Swedish arla, Faroese árla). Compare also West Frisian earen (“early”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??li/, enPR: ûr?l?
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.li/, enPR: ûr?l?
• Rhymes: -??(?)li
• Hyphenation: ear?ly
• Homophone: Earley

Adjective

early (comparative earlier, superlative earliest)

1. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.

2. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.

3. Near the start or beginning.

4. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.

5. (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.

   Antonym: late

Synonyms

• (at a time in advance of the usual): premature
• (near the start): first

Antonyms

• (at a time in advance of the usual): late
• (illness: having begun to occur): terminal

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adverb

early (comparative earlier, superlative earliest)

1. At a time before expected; sooner than usual.

2. Soon; in good time; seasonably.

   • Those that seek me early shall find me.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The May Queen

     You must wake and call me early.

Synonyms

• prematurely

Antonyms

• late, tardily

Translations

Noun

early (plural earlies)

1. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.

Antonyms

• late

Anagrams

• Arely, Arley, Layer, Leary, Raley, Rayle, layer, leary, re-lay, relay

English

Etymology

From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin cr?dus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewh?- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Old English hr?aw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro?od, IPA^(key): /k?u?d/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /k??d/
• Rhymes: -u?d
• Homophone: crewed (except Scotland)

Adjective

crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)

1. In a natural, untreated state.

   Synonym: raw, unrefined, unprocessed

2. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

   Synonym: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary

3. Lacking concealing elements.

   Synonym: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised

4. Lacking tact or taste.

   Synonym: blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar

5. (archaic) Immature or unripe.

   Synonyms: immature, unripe

6. (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

Synonyms

• (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
• See also Thesaurus:raw

Antonyms

• (being in a natural state): refined, processed

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)

1. Any substance in its natural state.
2. Crude oil.

Derived terms

• syncrude

Translations

Anagrams

• Druce, Ducre, cured

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Adjective

crude

1. feminine plural of crudo

Anagrams

• curde

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kru?.de/, [?k?u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kru.de/, [?k?u?d??]

Adjective

cr?de

1. vocative masculine singular of cr?dus

References

• crude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cr?dan.

Verb

crude

1. Alternative form of crouden

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cr?dus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kriu?d(?)/

Adjective

crude

1. unprocessed, uncooked, unworked (in a negative way)

Derived terms

• crudelite

Descendants

• English: crude

References

• “cr?de, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.