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form or shape by forcing through an opening

extruded aluminum

An extruding die can be made much less expensively than forms or casts.
I watched Geordie quickly extruding arms and legs,
David Almond -- Clay

extruding = forming or shaping by forcing something through an opening

SHIGAWIRE: metallic extrusion of a ground vine.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

"Making it was good practice for extruding the control levers," Nathan continued.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Their robot had a beautiful extruded-aluminum frame with a shiny blue fiberglass-covered foam top.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
Eggs kept extruding from her abdomen, which made it difficult for me to concentrate, but I persevered.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
A gangplank extruded from the upper hull and lowered itself to the wharf.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
As the note progressed, his handwriting shrank, until it seemed like something extruded rather than written.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
It is not that the soul puts forth friends, as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Edmonds ripped off the long curl of paper the machine had extruded and went into the next room, looking at it.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Behind him stood the broad structure of the apparatus, a glass retort extruding tubes and half filled with liquid visible on its top rear shelf.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Out of the orifice, a wide, glittering gangway extruded itself and drove purposefully towards the ground.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
Naked from the waist up, his vertebrae extruded from his skinny back as he hunched over the desk, working.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
The bus, oddly enough, had once been used as a mobile tb clinic, and to accommodate an X-ray machine, a turretlike extrusion had been added to its roof.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

Comrade Pillai had finished his avial and was squashing a ripe banana, extruding the sludge through his closed fist into his plate of curd, when Velutha knocked.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Although he receives his primary nutrients—carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals—through IV drips, a feeding tube can be extruded from the body mold and between his lips, to allow him to enjoy tasty liquids, from Coca-Cola to apple juice to chocolate milk.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
His gloved hands were still clean, they had touched nothing except the chilled skin of the deceased's chest, and so he took from beside his instrument tray a pad and pencil and noted for himself the color and texture of this extruded foam that was abundant enough to cover the deceased's bearded chin and his mustache almost entirely.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out, while he himself puts them on, like a sock over a foot, onto the stubof himself, his extra, sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye, which extrudes, expands, winces, and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again, bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf, into them, avid for vision.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
For one thing, although the publishing house—which had prospered largely through textbooks and industrial manuals and dozens of technical journals in fields as varied and arcane as pig husbandry and mortuary science and extruded plastics—did publish novels and nonfiction as a sideline, thereby requiring the labor of junior aestheticians like myself, its list of authors would scarcely capture the attention of anyone seriously concerned with literature.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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