Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which extracts. Specifically— In surgery, a forceps; one of a class of instruments used in lithotomy and midwifery, and in extracting teeth.
- n. A kitchen press for extracting the juices of meats in making meat extracts, beef-tea, etc.
- n. A machine with rollers through which skins are wrung to remove the surplus water after they have been soaked.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others
- n. chemistry An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture
- n. A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber
- n. graph theory a particular kind of bipartite graph
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, extracts.
- n. (Surg.) A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.
- n. (Breech-loading Firearms) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
- n. A centrifugal drying machine.
- n. (Apiculture) A machine for clearing combs of honey; also, a device for rendering wax.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector
- n. an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
- n. an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components
Examples
“The term extractor tool analyzes the content of a given page and extracts the terms that appear to be targeted at search engines”
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“Now, I know the extractor is working properly, as it has no problems ripping the rims of the cases from the cartridge.”
“It's the most astounding thing I ever – My dear lady, an extractor is used to get the hooks out of fish.”
“As part of the project I need to use a technical term extractor, and I found the Termine system from NACTEM very useful.”
“Dom Cobb, is an "extractor" -- a guy who breaks into your subconscious (while you're dreaming) to steal information.”
“· and, finally, the tags that our keyword extractor found (using KGen).”
“The U.S. could also pressure the United Kingdom to halt the operations of Gulfsands Petroleum -- a former Houston-based refiner/extractor, which is tied at the hip to Assad's cousin, Rami Makhlouf.”
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“The keyword/tag extractor, in particular, is a * really* smart bit of hacking.”
“The extractor is a round tin can on a central pivot with a revolving mechanism.”
“Most likely these extracts were printed from my printed paper; if not the extractor was a good copier.”
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