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Raw Material

Definition: Raw Material

Raw Material

Noun

1. Material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Raw Material

DomainDefinition

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.

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Synonym: Raw Material

Synonym: staple (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Raw Material

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Raw Material

English words defined with "raw material": production costTo dye in grain. (references)
Specialty definitions using "raw material": ACCOUNTANT, COST, added fat, aging room operator, apron conveyorbearish market, breaking upcoloring agent, colouring agent, coppiteDe-Vecchis process, distilling slops, durum wheat mealEmission Factor, ExtinctionFeedstockgranulator, Gross processing marginIngrain Colourslime-soda sinter processmetal mining, MILL OPERATOR, ROLLS, MILL-OPERATOR HELPERneutral sulfite pulp, neutral sulphite pulp, Non-Contact Cooling WaterProcess Wastewater, PULVERIZING-AND-SIFTING OPERATORring-roll crusher, ripening-room handsilica rock, silica sand, soda feldspar, spin-tank tender, spirit vinegar, still wash, stillage sludge, SUPERVISOR, GELATIN PLANT, SUPERVISOR, INSECTICIDETailings, TANKROOM TENDER, tile machine, Tuscarora quartziteValue Added TaxWORMS. (references)

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Modern Usage: Raw Material

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Raw Material (1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Raw Material

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cheap Raw Material (reference)

  • Germany's colonial problem; the necessity for redistributing the world's raw material resources (reference)

  • Jojoba: New Crop for Arid Lands, New Raw Material for Industry (reference)

  • Raw Material (reference)

  • Raw Material : Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Raw Material

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Raw Material

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Raw Material

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Raw Material

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Raw Material

SubjectTopicQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Raw Material

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The decrease of prices extends throughout the commercial world, embracing not only the raw material and the manufactured article, but provisions and lands.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Raw Material

Expression using "raw material": create from raw material. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Raw Material

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Raw Material

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

   

Portuguese

  

matéria-prima (base, element, stuff), matéria prima (material, stock, work material). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сырье (crude, primaries, raw, raw materials, raw stuff, stock). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sirovina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

materia prima (staple). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

råvara (raw product, staple), råmaterial. (various references)

   

Thai

  

วัตถุ"ิบ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hammadde (basic materials, commodity, producer goods, production goods, raw, raw materials, staple, stock, stuff). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Raw Material

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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