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He made a crude table out of an old crate.; Our initial crude calculations show that we made a profit this month.

very simple, without much detail, and perhaps not very accurate

crude sugar cane crude steel

a crude joke/remark crude, barbaric men

The plant processes 405,000 barrels of crude oil each day.

think he'd dismissed me as an idiot within five minutes of meeting me. Let's not just dismiss the idea before we've even thought about it.

Just dismiss those thoughts from your mind - they're crazy and not worth thinking about.

He has been dismissed from his job for incompetence.

The professor dismissed the class early because she had a meeting.

The defending lawyer asked that the charge against his client be dismissed.

dismiss charges/a case/a lawsuit

The MP's speech was dismissed by her opponents as crude electioneering. q

a milk crate a crate of empty bottles a packing crate; The wooden shipping crates were unloaded at the dock.

a large wooden box, used esp. for packing, storing, or sending things:; verb - to put something into a crate, especially in order to move it

Do you crate her at night?

verb - to put a dog in a crate

I don't think we've got enough packing crates for all the equipment.

You can insulate a house against heat loss by having the windows double-glazed.

Children should be insulated from the horrors of war. Until recently the country's economy has been insulated from recession by its reserves of raw materials.

Glaze the pastry with beaten egg. The pot had been badly glazed.

a shiny surface given to an object or a food, esp. by covering it with a liquid that shines when it dries: a cake with a dark chocolate glaze The pottery was famous for the rich glaze of its vases and jugs., translucent glaze

By the fourth act of the opera, his eyes had glazed over (= he became bored).

When someone’s eyes glaze over, they become fixed and shiny, as if the person is not seeing anything:

The house is nearly finished but it hasn't been glazed yet.

a whiskey jug

a jug of milk

There was a jugful of water on each table. I poured a whole jugful of milk into the pan.

I always knew he'd end up in (the) jug.

is a pottery jug in the form of a seated person, or the head of a recognizable person. Typically the seated figure is a heavy-set, jovial man holding a mug of beer in one hand and a pipe of tobacco in the other and wearing 18th-century attire:

By this time their disagreement had reached such a pitch that there was no hope of an amicable conclusion.

The man in the shop gave me his (sales) pitch about quality and reliability. She made a pitch for the job but she didn't get it.

The flower seller was at his usual pitch outside the station.

This roof has a very steep/high/gentle/low pitch.

a good/bad pitch

We chose a large level grassy pitch for our caravan.

She pitched the stone into the river. The ball pitched (= landed) short.

The bike hit a rut and I was pitched (forward) onto the road. The ship pitched up and down/from side to side in the rough seas.

We pitched camp/our tent in the shade.

The tune was pitched (= the notes in it were) too high for me to reach the top notes. A teacher's got to pitch a lesson at the right level for the students.

Few people have amicable divorces. Eventually we reached an amicable settlement.

Excitement at the stadium had reached/was at fever pitch.

If I were to give you an elevator pitch, it would probably go something like this: we operate the best health clubs in the best locations for 18- to 80-year-olds.

a short description of a product or business idea, especially one given to a possible investor:

He got punished for throwing a brushback pitch in training.

If we all pitch in together, it shouldn't take too long. When I bought this house, all my friends pitched in to help fix it up.

Gerald finally pitched up two hours late.

He was pitched (headlong) into despair by what happened to him in his final year at college.

He pitched into me as soon as I arrived, asking where the work was.

The car skidded and plunged headlong over the cliff. In the headlong rush to buy houses, many people got into debt.

a headlong plunge into the lake

Tony's car skidded on some ice and hit a tree.

a sliding movement that cannot be controlled: - She was riding too fast on a wet road, and the motorbike went into a skid.

Shortages of medicine were impeding the effort to control diseases.; Although he's shy, it certainly hasn't impeded his career in any way.

to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something

The dolphin had become entangled in/with the fishing nets.

He went to the shop to buy bread, and got entangled in/with a carnival parade. The mayor and the city council are anxious to avoid getting entangled in the controversy. She seems to be romantically entangled with some artist in Rome.

Manilow gave the slick, polished performance that we've come to expect. A slick pass from Eaves to Brinkworth set up the goal.

It's that sort of slick sales talk that I mistrust.

He's slick and funny, but human underneath. a slick salesman/politician

He slicked his hair back with gel.; He was a slick politician with an answer for everything.

roads slick with ice

a slick magazine/brochure slick advertising/marketing/presentation The Liberal Party's slick marketing has not convinced voters.

When you reach a fork in the road turn right. Take the left-hand fork.

Fork left/right where the road divides.

Much of his success comes from being in tune with what his customers want. Her theories were out of tune with the scientific thinking of the time.

The organization is funded by the UN to the tune of $30 million.

They need time to tune the launch of this product.

The engine needs a tune-up, and can you test the brakes too, please?

In a tune-up for his presidential race, he ran for a seat in Croatia's parliament.

After the orchestra had tuned up, the conductor walked on to the stage.

Charge the bill to my account, please. Shall we charge the flowers to your account?

The bull lowered its horns and charged. The violence began when the police charged (at) a crowd of demonstrators.

I've been charging about/around all day and I'm exhausted. He came charging up the stairs to tell me the good news.

His boss asked him to take charge of the office for a few days while she was away.

Is it all right to leave/put the battery on charge overnight?

I didn’t have any cash, so I charged the food.

I don't have any cash - I'll charge it.

He twirled the ribbon around the stick.; The dancers hopped and wiggled and twirled around the stage.

If you order the tickets by phone you have to pay a $2 service charge as well as $13.50 for each ticket.

Millions of viewers tuned in to learn the election results.

The company charged off $120 million worth of bad credit-card debt in the third quarter.

We define economic profit as the operating profit, minus tax, minus a capital charge.

our sister company in Australia the US battleship Missouri and her sister ship, the Wisconsin

They chatted happily to the nuns but ignored the lay sisters. The Priory housed 80 nuns and lay sisters and 40 canons and lay brothers.

but who belongs to a religious group, especially a group living together in a convent, and who does simple work for the group, such as preparing food

all marriages were to be solemnized by the clergy; We were surprised when he announced he wanted to join the clergy.

She makes a delicious apple cinnamon buckle.

The intense heat from the fire had caused the factory roof to buckle.; I felt faint and my knees began to buckle.

But these were difficult times and a lesser man would have buckled under the strain.

He'll have to buckle down (to his work) soon if he wants to pass his finals.

Don't forget, buckle up before you start driving.

Just belt up, will you! I'm trying to concentrate.

The politician has fastened on the problems of the working poor. My mind fastened on his admission that he was an agent.

a monastic life

also - of or related to monasteries or monks

In the last ten years or so we have developed a number of ancillary services, which have grown out of our core business.

providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system.

auxiliary staff/police/nurses About 4800 unarmed auxiliary police officers work on a volunteer basis with the New York Police Department.; The hospital has an auxiliary power supply in case of a power failure.

used in addition to the main team, organization, system, etc. in order to give extra help and support

hospital auxiliaries

an employee, volunteer (= someone who works without pay), or organization whose job is to give extra help or support:

The modal verbs in English are "can," "could," "may," "might," "must," "ought," "shall," "should," "will," and "would."

There are rates of 5, 10, 20, 40 and 70%, the modal rate being 10%.

relating to a mode; occurring most frequently in a sample or population.

a senior government aide an aide to the prime minister

The senator asked an aide to distribute copies of his speech.

He became Napoleon's aide-de-camp in 1804.

John is a true sister under the skin.

He is one of basketball’s elder statesmen.

He was a statesman who opened Hawaii to international relations. He has confirmed his reputation as an elder statesman in the energy industry.

The birds fed on blackberries or elderberries.

the small, almost black fruit of an elderberry tree:

Credit card finance charges are the interest fees due each month if you carry a balance.

a regular amount of money paid for something, that does not change:

legal charge on sth: A mortgage is a loan secured by a legal charge on the home.

Legal charges for the 16-month court battle are expected to total approximately £170m.

Directors of the bank now face a variety of legal charges.