different between degradation vs extraction

English

Etymology

From French dégradationMorphologically degrade +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?????de???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

degradation (countable and uncountable, plural degradations)

1. The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
   • 1912, Charles DeLano Hine, Letters from an old railway official: Letter 7

     This feature of good organization, the conferring of definite local superior rank, and the protection of the incumbent from unnecessary degradation, was discovered centuries ago by another effective institution, the Catholic church.

2. The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
3. Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
4. (geology) A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
5. A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural or artificial exposure.
6. The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
7. Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
8. The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold and wind.

Hyponyms

• biodegradation
• graceful degradation
• Marker degradation

Related terms

• (reducing in rank, character, or reputation): comedown
• decomposition

Translations

Anagrams

• gradationed

English

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?æk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. A person's origin or ancestry.
   • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge ?ISBN, page 144

     Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...

3. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Synonyms

• (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
• (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Translations

Anagrams

• tetraxonic

French

Pronunciation

Noun

extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

Further reading

• “extraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).