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Extract
//ˈɛkstɹækt// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- 2 a passage selected from a larger work wordnet
- 3 A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
"I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
- 4 a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) wordnet
- 5 A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
"vanilla extract"
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- 6 Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
"quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."
- 7 A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- 8 A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts. obsolete
- 9 Ancestry; descent.
- 10 A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Verb
- 1 To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc. transitive
"to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"
- 2 extract by the process of distillation wordnet
- 3 To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb). transitive
"to extract an essential oil from a plant"
- 4 calculate the root of a number wordnet
- 5 To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of transitive
"extract a passage from a text."
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- 6 take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy wordnet
- 7 To select parts of a whole transitive
"We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."
- 8 remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense wordnet
- 9 To determine (a root of a number). transitive
"Please extract the cube root of 27."
- 10 obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action wordnet
- 11 separate (a metal) from an ore wordnet
- 12 deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) wordnet
- 13 get despite difficulties or obstacles wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
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