Crossword clues for extrude
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extrude \Ex*trude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Extruding.] [L. extrudere, extrusum; ex out + trudere to thrust, akin to E. threat. See Threat.]
To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. ``Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin.''
--Coleridge.(Metallurgy) To shape or form by forcing metal heated to a semi-plastic condition through dies by the use of hydraulic power; as, extruded metal, extruded rods, extruded shapes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Latin extrudere "to thrust out, drive away" (see extrusion). Related: Extruded; extruding.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To push or thrust out. 2 To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.
WordNet
v. form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel" [syn: squeeze out]
Usage examples of "extrude".
Disrobing entirely, she squatted on the edge of the bath and proceeded to extrude a grotesque forked tail from some internal cache located deep within her stomach.
The same modification that Carey had found to put a bend in the shield allowed Jane way to extrude the shield several hundred thousand kilometers in the direction of the bend.
Jane way continued her frenzied work, trying with Lieutenant Carey to restore the forward shields and give them their new wedge shape, so she could extrude the shields and restore communications--or work the transporters--despite radiation interference.
I followed it out to the kitchen, and, as it touched the blue lights over the trough, beginning the process that would extrude my meat, would fill my mug with milk, it seemed to move as though exhausted.
A face suddenly extruded from the front, a Yuu-zhan Vong visage in miniature.
She and Corran settled down to a meal of it around a table that extruded from the floor, sprouting like a mushroom when a discolored place on the wall was stroked.
Finally it extruded a hose at shoulder level and approached the captain with it.
So used was the Morlock to the technology of his time, he was waiting for furniture to be extruded from the carpet!
A tentacle extruded to take them, hesitated, then turned into a dainty little white hand complete with pink-painted fingernails to remove the box from his palm.
Gibbon extruded new organs to probe it and finally shrank away from its pumps and tanks and shielded chambers as if they had been alien monsters crouching.
The interior extruded convoluted catwalks of polycarbonate that reached every nook and cranny.
The rest of the insect-person extruded itself, hung rigidly horizontal from the lip of the tube by the claspers at the tip of its elongated abdomen, and let itself drop lightly on all fours to the ground.
The eyes were sunken under brows at once apelike and fishlike and the face extruded out more snout or gill-like than nose.
He felt like he was barely moving by the time he got to the first extruded terrace some seventy or eighty feet up, and realized how weak he was as he used the terrace railing to push himself upward again, watching the shadows as he rose.
As a digger, he was accustomed to repairing the sheath, where its growing tip extruded into raw digs.