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extrude
[ ik-strood ]
verb (used with object)
- to thrust out; force or press out; expel:
to extrude molten rock.
- to form (metal, plastic, etc.) with a desired cross section by forcing it through a die.
verb (used without object)
- to protrude.
- to be extruded:
This metal extrudes easily.
extrude
/ ɪkˈstruːd /
verb
- tr to squeeze or force out
- tr to produce (moulded sections of plastic, metal, etc) by ejection under pressure through a suitably shaped nozzle or die
- tr to chop up or pulverize (an item of food) and re-form it to look like a whole
a factory-made rod of extruded egg
- a less common word for protrude
Derived Forms
- exˈtruded, adjective
Other Words From
- ex·truder noun
- ex·tru·si·ble [ik-, stroo, -s, uh, -b, uh, l, -z, uh, -], ex·truda·ble adjective
- unex·truded adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of extrude1
Example Sentences
Then, they bathed the extruded silk in a solution containing zinc and iron ions, eventually stretching the strands like taffy to make long, skinny fibers.
Another approach, called fused deposition modeling, forces a filament through a device that heats and extrudes the material.
In the astonishing way sea stars feed, it extruded its stomach and slowly began the process of digesting the urchin externally.
By 1963, the prolific science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was already extruding worrisome consequences from the electrodes.
The graph of those solutions creates a geometric shape that looks vaguely like a vertical line extruding a bubble.
Other Tipulid on the contrary extrude their eggs joined end to end, so as to resemble a necklace of oval beads.
He notes the familiar fact that the vine-stump absorbed water before it began to extrude it.
What is lacking is an authority which can impose commands on the in-group and extrude blood revenge from it.
Ye have power, it is true, to extrude me from this new world, but my presence will be a bane to you in the old.
Pupipara: a series of Diptera, in which the females do not extrude the young until they have reached the stage ready to pupate.
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