Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced by extraction.
- Specifically. Brought about by extraction, or the production of segregated descendants by Mendelian hybrids.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
extract .
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Examples
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Each portrait has a title extracted from the literary and mythical culture of the Orient: the shaman, the samurai woman, the creator of human kind, the temple of purity...
Evelyne Politanoff: Leonardo Vecchiarelli: La Grande Transizione, Women Warriors Meet Oriental Empresses Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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Each portrait has a title extracted from the literary and mythical culture of the Orient: the shaman, the samurai woman, the creator of human kind, the temple of purity...
Evelyne Politanoff: Leonardo Vecchiarelli: La Grande Transizione, Women Warriors Meet Oriental Empresses Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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It is a word extracted from a Sanskrit term meaning "to yoke" or "to join" and in the sage Patanjali's explorations of the subject, the "asana" or poses are only one of eight different major "limbs."
Yoga, Flexibility, and Spirit Steven Barnes 2010
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It is a word extracted from a Sanskrit term meaning "to yoke" or "to join" and in the sage Patanjali's explorations of the subject, the "asana" or poses are only one of eight different major "limbs."
Archive 2010-05-01 Steven Barnes 2010
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According to Cheng Chun-ming, a biotechnology scientist from National Taiwan University who started his own business several years ago and maker of the cakes, the phosphorescent protein extracted from the red algae helps increase a cake's attractiveness but is not a health concern to consumers as it is completely natural and edible.
Boing Boing: October 27, 2002 - November 2, 2002 Archives 2002
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With mytilin extracted from the common mussel (Mytilus edulis), the incubation period is a fortnight.
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Each portrait has a title extracted from the literary and mythical culture of the Orient: the shaman, the samurai woman, the creator of human kind, the temple of purity...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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Such a machine synchronizes thousands upon thousands of cast dice in order to orchestrate the manifestation, if not the disappearance, of their “broken sentences,” each word extracted from a grammatical series of coherent points and then implanted into a statistical series of isolated events.
Poetic Machines 06 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The color is extracted from the flower and added to the feed.
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Nearly 60% of the total groundwater extracted is withdrawn from overexploited aquifers.
GHibbs commented on the word extracted
My adjectival uses: 'What do your children do with their extracted teeth?' 'They use the extracted water on their fields.'
August 19, 2011
bilby commented on the word extracted
How do you extract water from teeth?
August 19, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word extracted
I'm more concerned about that second definition from the Cent. Dict.
August 19, 2011