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Definition: EXTRACTIVE |
EXTRACTIVEAdjective1. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. 2. Capable of being extracted. Noun1. Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue. 2. A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts. 3. Anything extracted; an extract. |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | In wood, pertaining to any substance that is not an integral part of the cellular structure but can be dissolved out with hot or cold water, ether, alcohol, benzene or other relatively inert solvents. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: EXTRACTIVE |
| English words defined with "EXTRACTIVE": Eductive ♦ Juglandin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "EXTRACTIVE": extractive metallurgy ♦ metal mining ♦ pyrometallurgy. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Venezuela | The most important near-term growth prospects remain in the extractive and infrastructure-related areas. (references) |
Romania | The energy sector was up 9.4 percent, the processing industry, 8.9 percent, and the extractive industry, 7.3 percent. (references) | |
Russia | Examples of these are some firms in the extractive industries and the so-called 'natural monopolies' - the electric and gas utilities and the railways. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EXTRACTIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXTRACTIVE" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "EXTRACTIVE": extractive industry ♦ extractive principle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
distillation extractive | 5 |
extractive metallergy | 4 |
extractive industry initiative transparency | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EXTRACTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nxjerrës (ejector, excretory, exhaust, extractor, wrecker), i nxjerrshëm, i ekstraktueshëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقتطف (excerption), مستخرج (offprint). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който може да добие (obtainable), който извлича, екстракт (decoction, essence, extract, extraction). (various references) | |
Chinese | 可提取. (various references) | |
Czech | vytažitelný. (various references) | |
Danish | ekstraktstof, ekstraktivt stof (extraneous substance). (various references) | |
Dutch | de te extraheren stof. (various references) | |
Finnish | uuteaine (extraneous substance). (various references) | |
French | extractif, produit d'extraction. (various references) | |
German | Extraktstoff. (various references) | |
Greek | Προϊόν εκχύλισης. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kitermelõ (exploiter). (various references) | |
Italian | estrattivo. (various references) | |
Korean | 뽑아내는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extractiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extrato (extract), extrativo, extractivo. (various references) | |
Romanian | extractiv, extract (extract). (various references) | |
Russian | экстрактивный, извлекаемый (derivable), добывающий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ekstraktivan, koji se izvlači. (various references) | |
Spanish | extracto (extract), extractivo. (various references) | |
Swedish | extraktivämne, extraktiv, extrakt-. (various references) | |
Turkish | çıkarma ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | екстракт (alcohol, extract). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật chiết, chất chiết, để chiết giống chất chiết khai khoáng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EXTRACTIVE": extractively, extractives. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-t-t-v-x" | |
-1 letter: extricate. | |
-2 letters: creative, reactive, tractive. | |
-3 letters: ariette, cattier, cavetti, citrate, exacter, exciter, excreta, extract, iterate, tectrix. | |
-4 letters: active, attire, cattie, cerate, cerite, cervix, create, ecarte, excite, ratite, recite, taxite, tercet, tierce, trevet, trivet, verite, vertex, vittae. | |
-5 letters: aerie, aiver, areic, arete, attic, avert, axite, caret, carex, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie, ceria, citer, civet, crate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-t-t-v-x" | |
+1 letter: extractives. | |
+2 letters: extractively. | |
+4 letters: overextraction. | |
+5 letters: overexpectation, overextractions. | |
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