单词 | extractive |
释义 | extractiveadj.n. A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > drawing drawinga1398 attractivea1400 extractive1599 attractory1641 eductive1657 epispastic1657 attrahent1661 trahent1661 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 363/2 Then make an extractive Playster spreade with Copperrooste. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 191 The common and ordinary Reeds haue an extractiue or drawing faculty. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 23 Of which instruments, the one is hot, digestive, and extractive or drying of the humid. 2. Concerned with extraction; tending to extract or remove resources or products; spec. extractive industry, an industry concerned with obtaining natural products, esp. non-replaceable raw materials such as coal, metallic ore, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > connected with extraction gold-digging1778 extractive1848 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. ii. §3 Labour employed in producing materials, on which industry is to be afterwards employed..is, in many cases, a labour of mere appropriation; extractive industry, as it has been aptly termed by M. Dunoyer. 1888 Sc. Leader 9 Apr. 5 Land used for the purposes of extractive industry. 1890 Harper's Mag. Nov. 921/1 They too abound..in what the French call the extractive industries. 1907 H. W. Macrosty Trust Movement iv. 106 The extractive industries dealing with stone and similar products. 1942 Rep. Comm. Land Utilization ix. 61 in Parl. Papers 1941–2 (Cmd. 6378) IV. 421 Extractive Industries. These comprise all the mining and quarrying industries. 1962 Listener 1 Feb. 205/2 The interest the West has shown towards Latin America has been a commercial, essentially an extractive, interest. 3. Capable of being extracted; of the nature of an extract. Cf. extract n. 2 extractive principle: see quot. 1875. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separated or cut off from > separated from main body > able to be > as an element from a substance extractive1789 1789 J. Keir First Pt. Dict. Chem. 27/1 Distillation frees the acid from much of this extractive substance. 1796 Kirwan Manures (1802) 53 He found 1 lb. of it [a soil] to contain from 20 to 30 grains of extractive matter. 1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents (1818) 186 Separating the extractive acid, and colouring matter from wine. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 323 Fourcroy..supposed that they [extracts] had all a common basis; which he called the extractive principle. B. n. 1. An extractive substance: see A. 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [noun] > extracted material extractive1839 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 483 The separation [of the viscous liquor] into..albumen, aqueous extractive, and alcoholic extractive. 1854 J. S. Bushnan in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. (c1865) II. 21/1 It is..nothing more than a species of animal extractive. 1857 E. L. Birkett Bird's Urinary Deposits (ed. 5) 117 The physiological origin of sulphur extractive. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 19/1 A food..containing, in addition to other meat extractives, the whole of the soluble albumen of the meat. 2. ‘The brown insoluble mass of doubtful composition, left after the preparation of vegetable extracts’ (Wagstaffe). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > vegetable extracts or preparations > [noun] > mass left after preparation of extracts extract1801 extractive1807 crude fibre1895 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 367 The solution..approached nearer to the vegetable matter called extractive than tannin. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 637 The substances held in solution are chiefly sugar, syrup, gluten, gum, and extractive. 1860 All Year Round 3 Mar. 442 There are in a hundred parts of wheaten flour about seventy-two of starch and extractive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1599 |
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