different between pedigree vs extraction

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?d.?.??i/

Noun

pedigree (countable and uncountable, plural pedigrees)

1. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding. [from 15th c.]
2. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage. [from 15th c.]
3. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry. [from 15th c.]
4. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc. [from 16th c.]
   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 33:

     This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.

5. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

pedigree (comparative more pedigree, superlative most pedigree)

1. Having a pedigree.
2. Purebred.

Verb

pedigree (third-person singular simple present pedigrees, present participle pedigreeing, simple past and past participle pedigreed)

1. (transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).

See also

• genealogy

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pedigree”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. Alternative spelling of pédigrée (“pedigree”)

Portuguese

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. pedigree (chart of ancestors, showing the breed of an animal)

Adjective

pedigree (plural pedigree, comparable)

1. purebred; pedigree

Spanish

Noun

pedigree m (plural pedigrees)

1. pedigree

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).