crudes
SayKROODZ/kɹuːdz/
- 1Plural of crude.
The plant blends several crudes to meet its product specifications.
Sour crudes contain more sulfur than the sweet varieties.
Note
A plural that only the countable noun can take. As oil, crude often behaves as a mass noun (the price of crude, a barrel of crude), so the plural appears when grades are counted and compared: light and heavy crudes, sweet and sour ones. The same counting applies to any substance in its natural state. The adjective, as in crude manners or a crude sketch, never takes an -s.
crudes is a form of crude
crude, noun: Any substance in its natural, unprocessed state. Full entry
- Forms
- crudecrudes plural
- Spelling
- crude → crudes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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