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“Crewed” or “Crude”

crewed / crude are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

crewed

  • verbserve as a crew member on.

crude k·r·UW·d

  • adjectivenot carefully or expertly made.
  • adjectiveconspicuously and tastelessly indecent.
  • adjectivebelonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.
  • adjectivenot processed or subjected to analysis.
Usage

Examples in context

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“crewed”

  • Human mission to Mars (crewed aka manned)
  • …and the fire appliances are crewed by the same firefighters but…
  • …the last RFA to be crewed in this way.
  • …the US Army and largely crewed by Australians under contract with
  • …a number of these aircraft crewed by civilians later flew in…
  • Jade was to have been crewed by 79 officers and 804…
  • 2004 saw the first crewed commercial spaceflight when Mike Melvill…
  • …envisioned a trio of large, crewed space stations arranged in a…
  • In 1971, the crewed Apollo 15 mission landed in…
  • …Covenant ship arrives, this one crewed by Jiralhanae.

“crude”

  • Reach Company, a crude, leather, vertically sliced football helmet…
  • …for example pamsummcol, function as crude matrix arithmetic processors and use…
  • Large amounts of crude oil were delivered, with German…
  • Crude fibre: 12–25%
  • …amounts of petroleum gas during crude oil extraction
  • …and 9.035 million tonnes of crude oil.
  • …flammable and explosive than normal crude oil.
  • …specification of certain impurities in crude oil.
  • …product formed (typically in the crude, unpurified reaction mixture) relative to…
  • Crude oil wells: Raw natural gas…

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