Extraction
[ɪk'strækʃ(ə)n;ek-] or [ɪk'strækʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force); 'the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction'.
(noun.) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means.
Checked by Leroy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
(n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
(n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.
Typist: Moira
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Drawing out.[2]. Lineage, descent, birth, origin, genealogy, parentage.[3]. (Math.) Determination (of a root).
Checker: Roberta
Examples
- Just as it belonged to his boastfulness to depreciate his own extraction, so it belonged to it to exalt Mrs. Sparsit's. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Nitrous oxide gas is chiefly used for the extraction of teeth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One instance of this kind came immediately under our notice, where a high-born girl had in early youth given her heart to one of meaner extraction. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Melas is a Greek by extraction, as I understand, and he is a remarkable linguist. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- No one colony in America is supposed to contain so great a number of people of European extraction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is a large aperture for the admission of coal and the extraction of coke, which aperture is covered with a lid, and screwed to make it air-tight. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He is said to be of foreign extraction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One of its most important features is the simultaneous extraction of the shells by an ejector, having a stem sliding through the cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Since the supply of rags was far less than the demand, the problem of the extraction from wood of the paper-forming substance was a vital one. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mary, however, continued to console herself with such kind of moral extractions from the evil before them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Typist: Rowland