Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Used in or obtained by extraction.
- adjective Possible to extract.
- noun Something that may be extracted.
- noun The insoluble portion of an extract.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of an extract; extracted.
- Tending or serving to extract; extracting.
- noun An extract.
- noun In pharmacy, the substance which, during the evaporation in making an extract, becomes dark in color and at last insoluble. Its nature is doubtful.
- noun In physiol. chem., one of various substances existing in small quantities in animal tissue, such as creatine and xanthin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being extracted.
- adjective Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
- noun Anything extracted; an extract.
- noun obsolete A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
- noun Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin
extractives from muscle tissue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That serves to
extract something - adjective Able to be
extracted - noun Something that may be extracted
- noun The substance left behind after something has been extracted
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Examples
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The rights and wrongs of America's system of class action, which gives new meaning to the term extractive industry, are properly matters for the U.S. courts and legislators.
International Tort Crisis Norman Lamont 2007
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It's a process that, like others, relies heavily on long-term extractive processes (metals mining), and spews effluent that's expensive to clean up and that companies bargain heavily to get environmental exceptions on.
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The probe comes amid intensifying global scrutiny of corruption and bribery in the so-called extractive industries that generate raw materials.
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When America exports its multi-national corporations, especially those in the "extractive" industries (think Big Oil), things are much worse and the imbalance of power between third world governments and societies and the power of mega-corporations backed by American willpower, military power and economic power cannot protect local interests.
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Important as this kind of extractive activity is to the nation's well-being, of its very nature it is not nearly as labour-intensive as end product manufacturing and distribution.
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At the core of this would be a fast broadband network that would facilitate an international digital economy, particularly in key export industries such as extractive, agriculture and education.
Computerworld News 2010
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It will also generate information that can help communities living near and within protected areas-such as extractive reserves-and will inform plans for new projects such as the construction of dams, agricultural development and mines, among others.
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The legislation was introduced in on March 26 by Minister of International Trade Stockwell Day, who says that the two agreements will open the door for Canadian companies doing business in Colombia and Peru by expanding market access in key sectors such as extractive industries, manufacturing, agriculture and financial services.
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The decision to protect some isolated islands along with the Mariana Trench, the deepest ocean canyon in the world, also represents a strategic shift by ocean conservationists, who have decided they are better off safeguarding some of the sea's most pristine regions than trying to curb fishing, drilling and other "extractive" activity everywhere.
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About 750 families live in the three proposed 'extractive' reserves (or Resex) up for approval, which include Baixo Rio Branco-Jauaperi (in the states of Roraima and Amazonas),
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