Extract

//ˈɛkstɹækt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  2. 2
    a passage selected from a larger work wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 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."

  2. 7
    A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
  3. 8
    A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts. obsolete
  4. 9
    Ancestry; descent.
  5. 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. 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. 2
    extract by the process of distillation wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    calculate the root of a number wordnet
  5. 5
    To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of transitive

    "extract a passage from a text."

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  1. 6
    take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy wordnet
  2. 7
    To select parts of a whole transitive

    "We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."

  3. 8
    remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense wordnet
  4. 9
    To determine (a root of a number). transitive

    "Please extract the cube root of 27."

  5. 10
    obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action wordnet
  6. 11
    separate (a metal) from an ore wordnet
  7. 12
    deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) wordnet
  8. 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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