extrude
/ɪkˈstɹuːd
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To push or thrust out.
Example Sentences
- "It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries.""
- "Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack."
- "When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur."
- "Researchers at the University of Warwick have created conductive polycaprolactone (PCL)-based filament by mixing carbon black into melted plastic before it's extruded as filament; they call the result carbomorph."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *trewd-der. Proto-Italic *troudō Latin trūdō Latin extrūderebor. English extrude Borrowed from Latin extrūdere.