Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Produced by extraction.
- Specifically. Brought about by extraction, or the production of segregated descendants by Mendelian hybrids.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of extract.
Examples
“Each portrait has a title extracted from the literary and mythical culture of the Orient: the shaman, the samurai woman, the creator of human kind, the temple of purity...”
“It is a word extracted from a Sanskrit term meaning "to yoke" or "to join" and in the sage Patanjali's explorations of the subject, the "asana" or poses are only one of eight different major "limbs.”
“According to Cheng Chun-ming, a biotechnology scientist from National Taiwan University who started his own business several years ago and maker of the cakes, the phosphorescent protein extracted from the red algae helps increase a cake's attractiveness but is not a health concern to consumers as it is completely natural and edible.”
“With mytilin extracted from the common mussel (Mytilus edulis), the incubation period is a fortnight.”
“Such a machine synchronizes thousands upon thousands of cast dice in order to orchestrate the manifestation, if not the disappearance, of their “broken sentences,” each word extracted from a grammatical series of coherent points and then implanted into a statistical series of isolated events.”
Poetic Machines 06 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“The color is extracted from the flower and added to the feed.”
“Nearly 60% of the total groundwater extracted is withdrawn from overexploited aquifers.”
“His suggested answers are below and appear to have been extracted from the Beano Comic Book of Weird Science:”
“Of those metals that are extracted from the country, it is presumed that the Government, through the General Customs Department and other institutions, have some type of control and a registry for the exporters.”
Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Theft of Cables and Scrap Metal
“Few have taken the trouble to examine the heavy penalties that managers have extracted from the returns earned by fund investors.”
Regulate Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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ruzuzu I'm more concerned about that second definition from the Cent. Dict. Aug 19, 2011
bilby How do you extract water from teeth? Aug 19, 2011
GHibbs My adjectival uses: 'What do your children do with their extracted teeth?' 'They use the extracted water on their fields.' Aug 19, 2011