extrude

[ ik-strood ]

verb (used with object)

, ex·trud·ed, ex·trud·ing.

1. to thrust out; force or press out; expel:

   to extrude molten rock.

2. to form (metal, plastic, etc.) with a desired cross section by forcing it through a die.

verb (used without object)

, ex·trud·ed, ex·trud·ing.

1. to protrude.
2. to be extruded:

   This metal extrudes easily.

extrude

/ ɪkˈstruːd /

verb

1. tr to squeeze or force out
2. tr to produce (moulded sections of plastic, metal, etc) by ejection under pressure through a suitably shaped nozzle or die
3. tr to chop up or pulverize (an item of food) and re-form it to look like a whole

   a factory-made rod of extruded egg

4. a less common word for protrude

Derived Forms

• exˈtruded, adjective

Other Words From

• ex·truder noun
• ex·tru·si·ble [ik-, stroo, -s, uh, -b, uh, l, -z, uh, -], ex·truda·ble adjective
• unex·truded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of extrude¹

1560–70; < Latin extrūdere to thrust out, drive out, equivalent to ex- ex- ¹ + trūdere to thrust, push

Word History and Origins

Origin of extrude¹

C16: from Latin extrūdere to thrust out, from trūdere to push, thrust

Example Sentences

They will be sort of extruding this sort of journalism product and sort of claiming it as their own.

From New York Times

One of those is 3D printing, which involves extruding concrete or other materials to build up the walls of a house.

From BBC

By first dissolving the peptides in water and then extruding them into a salty solution, they were able to create aligned peptide nanofibers -- like twisted strands of rope smaller than a cell.

From Science Daily

The ingredients were mixed and melted at 135 degrees Celsius, then extruded as thin strips of plastic.

From Science Daily

To print a new material from scratch, one must typically set up to 100 parameters in software that controls how the printer will extrude the material as it fabricates an object.

From Science Daily