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extraction

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).

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breeding

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?i?d??/
  • Rhymes: -i?d??

Etymology 1

From Middle English breedyng, bredynge (gestation, incubation, propagation, hatching; engineering, formation, development, growth), equivalent to breed +? -ing.

Noun

breeding (countable and uncountable, plural breedings)

  1. Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
  2. The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
  3. The act of copulation in animals.
  4. The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
  5. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
  6. Descent; pedigree; extraction.
  7. (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
Derived terms
  • inbreeding
  • outbreeding
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bredyng, bredynge, from Old English *br?dende, from Proto-Germanic *br?dijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *br?dijan? (to brood; breed), equivalent to breed +? -ing.

Adjective

breeding (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to or used for breeding.
    Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Derived terms
  • breeding ground

Verb

breeding

  1. present participle of breed
    Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.

Anagrams

  • beringed, bigender

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