crude form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcrudeandform
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crude
adjective
uk/kruːd/us/kruːd/
simple and not skilfully done ...
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofcrudeandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcrude form
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In light of this, the preceding tune emerges as a deliberatelycrudeformof rustic style.
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If true, it would operate according to a verycrudeformof justice.
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For example, a fried drug may be regarded as hotter in its effect than the same drug in its fresh orcrudeform.
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Such mechanisms had to have existed in at least acrudeformeven in ancient animals.
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Many people hold views of this kind (though not always in such acrudeform).
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One explanation of these results is that inner retinal photoreceptors can contribute acrudeformvision.
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This efficient activation or relational connection provides a type ofcrudeformof communication between objects.
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Therefore, this measure in itscrudeformwould be disastrous to agriculture, and would inflict great hardship upon many people.
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The first-past-the-post system is acrudeformof election which gives a swift and decisive result.
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This heat could be used in thecrudeform.
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It is acrudeformof thing, but what can we do?
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It is in a rathercrudeform, but it is still marginal relief.
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For the most part national insurance is acrudeformof additional taxation.
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Many people with a wealth of experience would not draft the schedule in anything like thiscrudeform.
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That has not been denied and, whether it is true in thatcrudeformor not, it seems extremely probable.
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The licence fee is acrudeformof taxation.
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It is the most primitive andcrudeformof tax.
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This is not so much privatisation as a rathercrudeformof economic gerrymandering.
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Will she take this opportunity roundly to condemn such acrudeformof intimidation and congratulate those who stand up against it?
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This is a verycrudeformof restorative justice.
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