Crude can refer to:
- Petroleum in its unprocessed form ("crude oil"), including:
- Brent crude oil
- Heavy crude oil
- Light crude oil
- Sweet crude oil
- Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil, a type of sweet crude
- Synthetic crude oil
Documentary films:
- Crude (2007 film), an Australian documentary about the geology and economics of crude oil
- Crude (2009 film), an American documentary about oil companies and law suits in Ecuador
Other:
- Dubai Crude, an oil price benchmark
- Off-color humor ("crude" humor)
- In statistics, crude denotes values before adjustment for confounding variables.
Famous quotes containing the word crude:
“On the pavement
of my trampled soul
the soles of madmen
stamp the prints of rude, crude words.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact that all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)