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Definition: Raw Material |
Raw MaterialNoun1. Material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | Material entering into and becoming a constituent element of a product. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The ingredients before being processed that enter into a finished product. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Raw MaterialSynonym: staple (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Materials | Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber. |
Nonpreparation | Rough copy; (plan); germ; raw material. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Raw Material |
| English words defined with "raw material": production cost ♦ To dye in grain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "raw material": ACCOUNTANT, COST, added fat, aging room operator, apron conveyor ♦ bearish market, breaking up ♦ coloring agent, colouring agent, coppite ♦ De-Vecchis process, distilling slops, durum wheat meal ♦ Emission Factor, Extinction ♦ Feedstock ♦ granulator, Gross processing margin ♦ Ingrain Colours ♦ lime-soda sinter process ♦ metal mining, MILL OPERATOR, ROLLS, MILL-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ neutral sulfite pulp, neutral sulphite pulp, Non-Contact Cooling Water ♦ Process Wastewater, PULVERIZING-AND-SIFTING OPERATOR ♦ ring-roll crusher, ripening-room hand ♦ silica rock, silica sand, soda feldspar, spin-tank tender, spirit vinegar, still wash, stillage sludge, SUPERVISOR, GELATIN PLANT, SUPERVISOR, INSECTICIDE ♦ Tailings, TANKROOM TENDER, tile machine, Tuscarora quartzite ♦ Value Added Tax ♦ WORMS. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Raw Material (1955) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Radite, the raw material for pens. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Hamilton Watch Factory. Raw material. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
E. J. Hobsbawm | Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The payment for such supplies of food and raw material for Germany and such other payments as may be judged by the Allied and Associated Powers to be essential to enable Germany to meet her obligations in respect of reparation will have priority to the extent and upon the conditions which have been or may be determined by the Governments of the said Powers. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The business had always been dull in consequence of the high price of the raw material, which reacted upon the manufacture. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Recycling and utilization technologies for secondary raw material are inadequate. (references) | |
In addition PVC resins are also used as a raw material in the manufacture of garden pipes and foot wares. (references) | ||
The acicular coke is used as raw material for metallurgical electrodes and is in high demand domestically and abroad. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | In case of JFTC, the major raw material is copper rods, which are imported. (references) |
India | However, silica tubes, the prime raw material for optical fiber, are imported. (references) | |
Spain | The Spanish paper industry is the EU leader in the use of waste paper as raw material. (references) | |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | Like import duties, however, this sales tax is not applied to raw material and machinery used in export production. (references) |
NIGERIA | There continues to be pressure from Nigerian manufacturers on the government to lower tariffs on raw material inputs and machinery. (references) | |
NIGERIA | On the down side, tariffs on numerous products and even raw material inputs and capital equipment remain excessively high, leading to chronic tariff avoidance by Nigerian importers. (references) | |
Trade | Sri Lanka | GST is not due on raw material imports to businesses located within free trade zones. (references) |
Israel | Loan terms vary depending upon the raw material requirements, cost of conversion and collection timeframe. (references) | |
Italy | Inward processing is the temporary importation of raw material or products for additional manufacture or processing. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. F |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The decrease of prices extends throughout the commercial world, embracing not only the raw material and the manufactured article, but provisions and lands. |
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Expression using "raw material": create from raw material. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
raw material | 98 |
plastic raw material | 15 |
pharmaceutical raw material | 14 |
raw material supplier | 7 |
cosmetic raw material | 7 |
chemical raw material | 5 |
ceramic raw material | 3 |
raw material testing | 2 |
food raw material | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "raw material"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prodhim gjysmë e gatshëm, lëndë e parë (material, staple, stock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مادة خام (stuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 原料 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | surovina (material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | raastof (direct material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ruw materiaal, onbewerkt materiaal, grondstof (data, material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raaka-aineet (commodities), raaka-aine (material, stock, work material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | matière première. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rohstoff (commodity, resource). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρώτη ύλη (material, stock, work material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חומר 'לם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyersanyag (staple, stock, stuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | materia prima (direct material). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bun-stoo (element, elementary physics), bun (base, basis, bottom, derivation, details, dope, end, explanation, eye of storm, foot, foundation, heart, interpretation, news, origin, original, prime, principle, root, root cause, sole, source, stem, stool, stump, underneath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awray aterialmay matéria-prima (base, element, stuff), matéria prima (material, stock, work material). (various references) сырье (crude, primaries, raw, raw materials, raw stuff, stock). (various references) sirovina. (various references) materia prima (staple). (various references) råvara (raw product, staple), råmaterial. (various references) วัตถุ"ิบ. (various references) hammadde (basic materials, commodity, producer goods, production goods, raw, raw materials, staple, stock, stuff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-i-l-m-r-r-t-w" | |
-3 letters: arterial, material. | |
-4 letters: amirate, awaiter, malaria, maltier, marital, marlier, marlite, martial, retrial, talaria, trailer, trawler, twirler, wartier, wartime. | |
-5 letters: aerial, amrita, armlet, artier, atrial, errata, imaret, irater, irreal, lamiae, lariat, latria, mailer, malate, meatal, milter, mitral, railer, ramate, ramtil, realia, remail, retail, retial, retral, retrim, rewarm, tailer, tamale, tamari, tarama, tramel, trimer, wailer. | |
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