extraction

English

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ækʃən

Noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. 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. ...

3. 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.

4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (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

• Bulgarian: вадене n (vadene), изваждане (bg) n (izvaždane)
• Danish: udvinding c
• Finnish: uuttaminen (fi)
• Galician: extraer
• Maori: kohikatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utvinning m or f

  Nynorsk: utvinning f

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• Polish: wydobywanie (pl) n
• Romanian: extragere (ro) f

one's origin, lineage or ancestry

• Bulgarian: произход (bg) m (proizhod)
• Czech: původ (cs) m
• Danish: afstamning c, slægtskab n
• Finnish: syntyperä (fi), sukujuuri
• French: extraction (fr)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avstamning m or f

• Polish: pochodzenie (pl) n
• Serbo-Croatian: podrijetlo (sh) n
• Swedish: härkomst (sv) c, börd (sv) c, extraktion (sv) c, härstamning (sv) c

extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant etc — see extract

military

• Finnish: evakuointi (fi)
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removal of a tooth from its socket

• Bulgarian: вадене n (vadene)
• Czech: trhání n
• Danish: udtrækning c
• Finnish: vetäminen (fi)
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• French: ^{(please verify)} extraction (fr)
• Greek: εξαγωγή (el) f (exagogí)
• Polish: usunięcie (pl) n

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

Further reading

• “extraction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.