Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- noun Something obtained by extracting; an extract.
- noun Origin; lineage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of extracting.
- noun The operation of drawing anything from a substance, as an essence, tincture, or the like.
- noun The act of taking out or copying a part, as a passage from a book.
- noun In arithmetic and algebra, the rule or operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. See
root . - noun That which is extracted; extract; essence.
- noun Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family.
- noun The production of segregated descendants by Mendelian hybrids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of extracting, or drawing out.
- noun Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
- noun That which is extracted; extract; essence.
- noun (Math.) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act of
extracting or the condition of beingextracted . - noun A person's
origin orancestry . - noun Something extracted, an
extract , as from aplant or an organ of an animal etc. - noun military An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- noun dentistry A removal of a
tooth from itssocket .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
- noun the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
- noun properties attributable to your ancestry
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Examples
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Eastern Quebec, being largely Norman in extraction, is also the home of ballads; while we fail to detect more than a small number in the Montreal districts, where the settlers were more predominantly from the Loire River to the south.
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The step, who's contents have been hidden in order to keep the example short, would use the p: http-request step to submit a request to a term extraction service.
O'Reilly News: XML Philip Fennell 2010
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Aside from the usual habitat destruction involved in extraction processes, aluminum production threatens your children in several ways: the climate change footprint is enormous, starting with the gases released in the process itself.
J Henry Fair: Hungarian Bauxite J Henry Fair 2010
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Aside from the usual habitat destruction involved in extraction processes, aluminum production threatens your children in several ways: the climate change footprint is enormous, starting with the gases released in the process itself.
J Henry Fair: Hungarian Bauxite J Henry Fair 2010
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Even in the height of the spill response, much of the extraction from the satellite data was done manually, McDonald said.
Presidential Oil Spill Commission Hears Calls for Stronger Response Plan 2010
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Aside from the usual habitat destruction involved in extraction processes, aluminum production threatens your children in several ways: the climate change footprint is enormous, starting with the gases released in the process itself.
J Henry Fair: Hungarian Bauxite J Henry Fair 2010
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Clearance of drugs with a low rate of hepatic extraction is especially dependent on the rate of liver metabolism. 7 Drugs which have low intrinsic clearance rates will have a corresponding decrease in metabolism with decreased hepatic function. 7 Clearance of drugs with a high rate of hepatic extraction will be mostly dependent on the rate of hepatic blood flow. 7 This can be diminished, as mentioned earlier, making these drugs more bioavailable.
Elderly 2010
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Aside from the usual habitat destruction involved in extraction processes, aluminum production threatens your children in several ways: the climate change footprint is enormous, starting with the gases released in the process itself.
J Henry Fair: Hungarian Bauxite J Henry Fair 2010
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I hope Foxman understands that we have higher priorities than Israel now: rescuing our capitalist system, fixing our healthcare, Iranian nuclear ambitions, Pakistan as a focus of terror war, extraction from the Iraq quagmire, etc.
Matthew Yglesias » Foxman: Mitchell is “Fair” and I’m Unhappy About It 2009
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Aside from the usual habitat destruction involved in extraction processes, aluminum production threatens your children in several ways: the climate change footprint is enormous, starting with the gases released in the process itself.
J Henry Fair: Hungarian Bauxite J Henry Fair 2010
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Where does the term "partial-birth" abortion come from? The term was first coined by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in 1995 to describe a recently introduced medical procedure to remove fetuses from the womb. Alternately known as "dilation and extraction," or D&X, and "intact D&E," it involves removing the fetus intact by dilating a pregnant woman's cervix, then pulling the entire body out through the birth canal. After a physician presented a paper at a conference of the National Abortion Federation describing the new procedure, the NRLC commissioned drawings to illustrate it and published them in booklet form, as well as placing them as paid advertisements in newspapers to build public opposition. In an interview with The New Republic magazine in 1996, the NRLC's Douglas Johnson explained that the term was thought up in hopes that "as the public learns what a 'partial-birth abortion' is, they might also learn something about other abortion methods, and that this would foster a growing opposition to abortion." In 1995, Rep. Charles Canady (R-FL) included the term as part of a bill he proposed that would make it a federal crime to perform a "partial-birth" abortion.
Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam Julie Rovner 2006
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