Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To push or thrust out.
- intransitive verb To shape (a plastic, for instance) by forcing it through a die.
- intransitive verb To protrude or project.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To thrust out; force, press, or crowd out; expel: applied to things.
- To drive away; expel; displace or remove, as a person from a place or office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away.
- transitive verb (Metallurgy) To shape or form by forcing metal heated to a semi-plastic condition through dies by the use of hydraulic power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To push or
thrust out. - verb To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a
die or an opening.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form or shape by forcing through an opening
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In my first and Second Lives, even 3D looks flat at times, and if I squint my eyes closely enough, I can "extrude" a visual model of what I'm really looking for.
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In my first and Second Lives, even 3D looks flat at times, and if I squint my eyes closely enough, I can "extrude" a visual model of what I'm really looking for.
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For the center, I used a clay gun to extrude small, thin strings, which I cut short.
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Even with a publisher, the contract is not that I extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for a company to multiply N times over, allowing it to offer X units-worth of replicated product, at Z groats per unit.
Gigging for Groats Hal Duncan 2010
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If the steel is so strong that it isn't malleable, it is hard to extrude into the desired shapes.
Metal Firms Seek Weight Loss Robert Guy Matthews 2011
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The contract is not that I extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for Z groats per unit.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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The contract is not that I extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for Z groats per unit.
Gigging for Groats Hal Duncan 2010
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George R.R. Martin did not contract with his readers to extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for Z groats per unit, at a rate of N units per day; and that he has not made this contract with them is why he is, as Neil Gaiman points out, not their bitch for having failed to meet that rate.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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George R.R. Martin did not contract with his readers to extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for Z groats per unit, at a rate of N units per day; and that he has not made this contract with them is why he is, as Neil Gaiman points out, not their bitch for having failed to meet that rate.
Gigging for Groats Hal Duncan 2010
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Even with a publisher, the contract is not that I extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for a company to multiply N times over, allowing it to offer X units-worth of replicated product, at Z groats per unit.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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