different between extraction vs invasion

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).

English

Etymology

From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin inv?si?nem, accusative of inv?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

invasion (countable and uncountable, plural invasions)

1. A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
2. The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.

   an invasion of mobile phones

   an invasion of bees

   an invasion of foreign tourists

3. (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteries and such to the organism.
4. (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.

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Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin inv?si?nem, nominative of inv?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.va.zj??/

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Related terms

• envahir

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• innovais, visionna

Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin inv?si?.

Pronunciation

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Swedish

Noun

invasion c

1. invasion