'Extraction' definitions:
Definition of 'extraction'
(from WordNet)
noun
The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
noun
Properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction]
noun
The action of taking out something (especially using effort or force); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
Definition of 'Extraction'
From: GCIDE
- Extraction \Ex*trac"tion\, n. [Cf. F. extraction.]
- 1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is extracted; extract; essence. [1913 Webster]
- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extraction'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- ancestry,
- apparentation,
- architecture,
- assembly,
- attraction,
- attrition,
- birth,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- bolting,
- branch,
- breed,
- building,
- casting,
- clarification,
- colature,
- common ancestry,
- composition,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- consanguinity,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decoction,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- deracination,
- derivation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- destructive distillation,
- detraction,
- devising,
- diminution,
- dip,
- direct line,
- disparagement,
- distaff side,
- distillate,
- distillation,
- draft,
- drawing,
- drayage,
- edulcoration,
- elaboration,
- elixir,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- eradication,
- erection,
- essence,
- essentialization,
- excerpt,
- excerption,
- extirpation,
- extract,
- extrication,
- fabrication,
- family,
- fashioning,
- female line,
- filiation,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- heaving,
- house,
- impairment,
- infusion,
- leaching,
- lessening,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- lixiviation,
- machining,
- making,
- male line,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- origin,
- parentage,
- passage,
- pedigree,
- percolation,
- phylum,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- producing,
- pull,
- pulling,
- pulling power,
- purification,
- quintessence,
- race,
- raising,
- reduction,
- refinement,
- refining,
- remission,
- removal,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- riddling,
- screening,
- seed,
- selected passage,
- selection,
- separation,
- sept,
- shaping,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- side,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- smelting,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- spirit,
- spiritualization,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- straining,
- sublimation,
- succession,
- sword side,
- towage,
- towing,
- traction,
- tractive power,
- truncation,
- tug-of-war,
- tugging,
- uprooting,
- winnowing,
- withdrawal,
- workmanship