extrude

/ɛkˈstrud/

Other forms: extruded; extruding; extrudes

If you force material through an opening to give it form or shape, you are extruding the material. You can use a pasta maker to extrude the pasta dough in various shapes — from spaghetti to linguine to macaroni.

Extrude is from the Latin word extrudere, which itself can be broken into the roots ex-, meaning "out," and trudere, meaning "to thrust." In the noun form, the process is called extrusion. You can extrude all kinds of materials and products by forcing them through an opening, including cheese puffs, pasta, candy, plastic toys like the hula hoop, assorted pipes and hoses, and glass tubing.

Definitions of extrude

1. verb

   form or shape by forcing through an opening
   “extrude steel”

   synonyms: squeeze out

   type of:

   create, make, produce

   create or manufacture a man-made product