Definition of "extrude" [ex•trude]

• To push or thrust out. (verb-transitive)
• To shape (a plastic, for instance) by forcing it through a die. (verb-transitive)
• To protrude or project. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In my first and Second Lives, even 3D looks flat at times, and if I squint my eyes closely enough, I can "extrude" a visual model of what I'm really looking for."
• "George R.R. Martin did not contract with his readers to extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for Z groats per unit, at a rate of N units per day; and that he has not made this contract with them is why he is, as Neil Gaiman points out, not their bitch for having failed to meet that rate."
• "The contract is not that I extrude X units-worth of product in medium Y, for Z groats per unit."