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:
“There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been “Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,” while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have any chance to look out for themselves.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearly—our world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purblind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutal—we shall turn our eyes again, and to more purpose, upon this passionate and dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)