extract

Plural: extracts

Noun

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
• a passage selected from a larger work
• Something that is extracted or drawn out.
• A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
• A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
• Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
• A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
• A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
• Ancestry; descent.
• 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

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
  • "extract a bad tooth"
  • "extract information from the telegram"
• get despite difficulties or obstacles
  • "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
• extract by the process of distillation
• separate (a metal) from an ore
• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
• calculate the root of a number
• To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
• To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
• To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.
• To select parts of a whole
• To determine (a root of a number).
• -ED, -ING, -S to pull or draw out

Examples

• "extract of beef"
• "extract of dandelion"
• "I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
• "Please extract the cube root of 27."
• "quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."
• "to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"
• "to extract an essential oil from a plant"
• "vanilla extract"
• "We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."

Synonyms

distil, distill, draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, excerpt, excerption, express, infusion, press out, pull, pull out, pull up, selection, take out, extraction, extractive principle, origin, outdraw, sunder out

Related Words

tincture