extrude
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.
to protrude.
to be extruded: This metal extrudes easily.
Origin of extrude
1Other words from extrude
- ex·trud·er, noun
- ex·tru·si·ble [ik-stroo-suh-buhl, -zuh-], /ɪkˈstru sə bəl, -zə-/, ex·trud·a·ble, adjective
- un·ex·trud·ed, adjective
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How to use extrude in a sentence
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.
A metal ion bath may make fibers stronger than spider silk | Meghan Rosen | October 6, 2022 | Science NewsAnother approach, called fused deposition modeling, forces a filament through a device that heats and extrudes the material.
5 MIT patents that changed computing | Simson Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05 | February 23, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewIn the astonishing way sea stars feed, it extruded its stomach and slowly began the process of digesting the urchin externally.
8 ‘insignificant’ creatures that will make you dream about the ocean | Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck | December 1, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBy 1963, the prolific science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was already extruding worrisome consequences from the electrodes.
Drugs, Robots, and the Pursuit of Pleasure: Why Experts Are Worried About AIs Becoming Addicts | Thomas Moynihan | September 17, 2021 | Singularity HubThe graph of those solutions creates a geometric shape that looks vaguely like a vertical line extruding a bubble.
Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets | Kelsey Houston-Edwards | February 22, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
Other Tipulid on the contrary extrude their eggs joined end to end, so as to resemble a necklace of oval beads.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4) | William KirbyHe 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.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerYe have power, it is true, to extrude me from this new world, but my presence will be a bane to you in the old.
The Knight of the Golden Melice | John Turvill AdamsPupipara: a series of Diptera, in which the females do not extrude the young until they have reached the stage ready to pupate.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology | John. B. Smith
British Dictionary definitions for extrude
/ (ɪkˈstruːd) /
(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
Origin of extrude
1Derived forms of extrude
- extruded, adjective
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