extraction

Oxford American Dictionary
extraction
- IPA[ikˈstrakSH(ə)n]
美式
- n.
  
  the action of taking out something, especially using effort or force；the ethnic origin of someone's family
- noun: extraction, plural noun: extractions
- 釋義
n.
名詞
1. the action of taking out something, especially using effort or force mineral extraction a dental extraction 同義詞 removal, taking out, drawing out, pulling out, extrication, ... 更多wrenching out, tearing out, uprooting, withdrawal, unsheathing, production, freeing, release, rarederacination, exaction, exacting, wresting, coercion, extortion, squeezing, expressing, separation, pressing, obtaining, distillation反義詞 insertion, relinquishment
2. the ethnic origin of someone's family a worker of Polish extraction 同義詞 descent, ancestry, parentage, ancestors, family, ... 更多lineage, line, line of descent, race, origin, derivation, birth, genealogy, heredity, succession, stock, pedigree, blood, bloodline, strain, roots, origins, forefathers, antecedents, rarefiliation, stirps

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