Adjacent Words

Extraction definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXTRAC'TION, n. [L. extractio.] The act of drawing out; as the extraction of a tooth; the extraction of a bone or an arrow from the body; the extraction of a fetus or child in midwifery.
1. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family. Hence,the stock or family from which one has descended. We say, a man is of a noble extraction.
2. In pharmacy, the operation of drawing essences, tinctures, etc. from a substance.
3. In arithmetic and algebra, the extraction of roots is the operation of finding the root of a given number of quantity; also, the method or rule by which the operation is performed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction]
3: the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act or process of extracting something 2. ancestry, origin <a family of French extraction> 3. something extracted

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of extracting; the process of being extracted. 2 the removal of a tooth. 3 origin, lineage, descent (of Indian extraction). Etymology: ME f. F f. LL extractio -onis (as EXTRACT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. ``A family of ancient extraction.'' --Clarendon. 3. That which is extracted; extract; essence. They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. --Milton. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say, for example, that someone is of French extraction, you mean that they or their family originally came from France. (FORMAL) Her real father was of Italian extraction... = origin, descent N-UNCOUNT: with supp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Drawing out, pulling out, pulling. 2. Lineage, descent, birth, origin, genealogy, parentage. 3. (Math.) Determination (of a root).

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