extractive
Taking from earth
Extractive describes processes that remove resources from their source, especially natural resources from the earth: extractive industries like mining, drilling, and logging.
The word often carries critical connotations, suggesting depletion without replenishment: extractive capitalism, extractive colonialism.
In linguistics and computing, extractive summarization pulls existing sentences from a text rather than generating new ones.
Extracting earth's resources
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- quarryingOpen-pit stone mining
- loggingRecording system events
- frackingExtracting gas via pressure
pumping · harvesting · dredging · boring · tapping · oil · gas · coal
Metal-bearing rock
- goldElement seventy-nine
- silverLustrous white precious metal
- copperReddish-brown metallic element
- ironElement twenty-six
bauxite · nickel · zinc · lead · diamond · gemstone · quartz · coal
Domination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- plunderGoods seized violently
- depletionReduction of supply
- overfishingUnsustainable marine harvest
deforestation · monoculture · despoliation · profiteering · exploitation · unsustainable · predatory · inequitable
Extracting metal from ore
- refiningRemoving unwanted elements
- leachingDissolving out by liquid
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- millingProcessing grain mechanically
flotation · separation · concentration · purification · electrolysis · tailings · slag · recovery
Geared toward foreign markets
- commodityFungible traded good
- rent-seekingGaining through system manipulation
- enclaveSurrounded distinct territory
- boom-bustCyclical economic volatility
mining
Extracting earth's resources
fracking · pumping · harvesting · dredging · boring · tapping · oil · gas · coal · timber
ore
Metal-bearing rock
iron · bauxite · nickel · zinc · lead · diamond · gemstone · quartz · coal · uranium
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- plunderGoods seized violently
- depletionReduction of supply
overfishing · deforestation · monoculture · despoliation · profiteering · exploitation · unsustainable · predatory · inequitable · dispossession
smelting
Extracting metal from ore
milling · flotation · separation · concentration · purification · electrolysis · tailings · slag · recovery · yield
export-oriented
Geared toward foreign markets
- commodityFungible traded good
- rent-seekingGaining through system manipulation
- enclaveSurrounded distinct territory
extractiveregenerative
Able to renew itself
restorative · replenishing · sustainable · renewable · additive
extractiveinclusive
Covering all members
distributive · mutualistic · reciprocal · equitable · symbiotic
extractivegenerative
Able to produce or create
synthetic · creative · interpretive · paraphrasing · original
- DNA extractionIsolating genetic material chemically
- tooth extractionRemoving a bad molar
- resource extractionObtaining substances from nature
- extraction teamGroup retrieving personnel from danger
- extraction missionOperation to retrieve someone
- wisdom tooth extractionRemoval of third molars