free from extraneous matter

free from extraneous matter
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  • extrinsic — extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, alien are comparable when they mean external to something or someone or to the true nature or original character of such thing or person. Extrinsic applies to something which is distinctly outside the thing in… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • pure — /ˈpjuə / (say pyoohuh), /pjʊə / (say pyoouh) adjective (purer, purest) 1. free from extraneous matter, or from mixture with anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind: pure gold. 2. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous …  

  • pure — pureness, n. /pyoor/, adj., purer, purest. 1. free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water. 2. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous. 3. of unmixed descent or… …   Universalium

  • purify — [c]/ˈpjurəfaɪ / (say pyoohruhfuy) verb (purified, purifying) –verb (t) 1. to make pure; free from extraneous matter, or from anything that debases, pollutes, or contaminates: to purify metals. 2. to free from foreign or objectionable elements: to …  

  • straight — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English streght, straight, from past participle of strecchen to stretch more at stretch Date: 14th century 1. a. free from curves, bends, angles, or irregularities < straight hair > < straight timber > b. generated… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • purify — c.1300, free from spiritual pollution, from O.Fr. purifier (12c.), from L. purificare to make pure, from purus pure (see PURE (Cf. pure)) + root of facere to make (see FACTITIOUS (Cf. factitious)). Meaning free from extraneous matter is recorded… …   Etymology dictionary

  • distill — I verb boil down, clarify, concentrate, condense, decoct, destillare, draw forth, draw out, draw out the essence, drop, expel, extract, filtrate, filter, free from extraneous matter, press out, purify by removing the foreign and nonessential,… …   Law dictionary

  • plain — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere to lament more at plaint Date: 14th century archaic complain II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin planum, from… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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