extrude

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to shape a material by forcing it through a die or opening with a fixed cross-section

   The factory can extrude molten plastic into continuous tubing.

2. 2
   verb

   to push, thrust, or project something outward

   The animal can extrude its feeding tube when it reaches prey.

Borrowed from Latin extrudere, 'to thrust or drive out,' formed from ex-, 'out,' + trudere, 'to thrust.' Industrial manufacturing narrowed one major sense to forcing softened material through a shaped opening.

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