extruder
noun
ex·trud·er
ik-ˈstrü-dər 
plural extruders
: someone or something that extrudes something
specifically
: a machine that shapes material by forcing it through a specially designed opening
a pasta extruder
There are recipes too, and for those who don't have a sausage extruder at home (who doesn't?) some of the sausages don't require casings. —
Karon Liu
Karon Liu [Zak] Wilson brought a 3-D printer, and … he concedes that watching the extruder swing back and forth, depositing tiny bits of material with each pass, is "maybe not a terrible analogy for our stay here." —Tom Kizzia
Tom Kizzia Examples of extruder in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The extruder melted thousands of tiny black pellets into a viscous goo.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
Settle onto the end of a long wooden lever to press dough through the extruder and into a pot of boiling water.
—Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
The flake is melted in an extruder – almost like chocolate in a double boiler.
—Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
While the extruder machine spits out roasts, workers spot-check uncooked roasts to make sure the ratio of masa to stuffing is correct.
—Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
Everything was easy to clean except for the penne extruder, which required some extra attention.
—Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
Electric extruders operate by extruding the pasta dough from a dough chamber and then kneading and cutting the pasta on its own.
—Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
Workers in another, equally hot room fed the shreds into an extruder, which pumped out little gray pellets known as nurdles.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today.
—Douglas Heingartner, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
Settle onto the end of a long wooden lever to press dough through the extruder and into a pot of boiling water.
—Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
The flake is melted in an extruder – almost like chocolate in a double boiler.
—Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
While the extruder machine spits out roasts, workers spot-check uncooked roasts to make sure the ratio of masa to stuffing is correct.
—Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
Everything was easy to clean except for the penne extruder, which required some extra attention.
—Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
Electric extruders operate by extruding the pasta dough from a dough chamber and then kneading and cutting the pasta on its own.
—Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
Workers in another, equally hot room fed the shreds into an extruder, which pumped out little gray pellets known as nurdles.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today.
—Douglas Heingartner, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
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“Extruder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extruder. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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