extrude, v.
(ɛkˈstruːd)
[ad. L. extrūd-ĕre, f. ex- out + trūdĕre to thrust.]
1. trans. To thrust (a person) out or forth; to urge or force out; to expel. Const. from, † out of, and † with double obj. by omission of from. a. with obj. a person.
| 1570 Levins Manip. 183 To Extrude, extrudere. 1586 Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xxiii. (1612) 110 Let not a Traytors periured Sonne extrude us from our right. 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i, Say he should extrude me his house to-day. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iv. (1626) 72 Others, that all is possible, conclude, To true-styl'd Gods: but, Bacchus they extrude. 1795 Wythe Decis. Virginia 49 From which any man with a military warrant might extrude the proprietor. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. v. ii, Your Third Estate shall suddenly see itself extruded from its Hall. |
b. with obj. a material thing; in mod. use esp. to exclude (an embryo, ova, etc.). Also occas. with sense ‘to protrude out’.
| 1566 Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 78 The like also some do attempt by deuises and subtile secretes to extrude theyr conceptions. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 120 The Riuer..bringing down earth with his deluges, and extruding the sea by little and little. 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 770 The bloud from the heart..is again extruded. 1786 Ibid. LXXVI. 161 The animal..easily contrives to extrude itself. 1836 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 700/2 The number of eggs extruded by each individual is very great. 1848 Clough Amours de Voy. iii. 91 Ye..extrude from the ocean your helpless faces. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 47 The embryos are extruded from the uterine cavities. |
c. with an immaterial thing as obj.
| 1598 Yong Diana 137 All hate shall be extruded. 1629 T. Hawkins Elegy in Sir J. Beaumont's Bosworth F. 7 Loose Humous vent, and Ballad-Line extrude. a 1745 Swift Char. P—te M—h, Wit..was extruded from his head to make room for other men's thoughts. 1856 Faber Creator & Creature i. i. (1886) 8 The idea of God..is..extruded..by the press of matter. 1869 M. Arnold Cult. & An. (1882) p. xxxii, Presbyterianism was only extruded gradually. |
d. To shape (metals, plastics, etc.) by forcing them through dies.
| 1913 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 4) 435 Extruded metal, malleable alloys of copper and other metals which, when heated are forced through dies into various sectional forms. 1923 Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics V. 427/1 It is..possible to extrude alloys which it is extremely difficult..to roll. 1958 Engineering 31 Jan. 133/1 It is made of five-ply with an extruded aluminium framework. |
2. intr. for refl. To protrude out. rare.
| 1852 Dana Crust. i. 670 It may be made to extrude by a little pressure. 1865 ‘Umbra’ Trav. 18 The great fount, the basin of which..extrudes like a large boil from the plain. |
Hence exˈtruded ppl. a., exˈtruding vbl. n.
| 1687 Assur. Abb. Lands 43 The Canons of the Church..were no ways questioned by the extruded. a 1761 Law tr. Behmen's Myst. Magnum xvii. (1772) 71 In the Stead and Place of extruded Lucifer. 1875 Buckland Log-bk. 110 With open mouth and extruded tongue. 1881 Blackie Lay Serm. i. 55 An extruded cat moans woefully. 1930 Engineering 21 Feb. 252/2 In such operations as embossing, extruding. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 610/1 Tubing machines, or extruding machines, are devices for forcing continuous strips of rubber from a die. |