extraction
English
Etymology
From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ækʃən
Noun
extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)
- An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- A person's origin or ancestry.
- 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge →ISBN, page 144
- Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
- 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge →ISBN, page 144
- Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms
- (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
- (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
Translations
act of extracting
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one's origin, lineage or ancestry
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extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant etc — see extract
military
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removal of a tooth from its socket
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
extraction f (plural extractions)
Further reading
- “extraction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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