extract

UK /ˈɛkstɹækt/ US /ˈɛkstɹækt/
noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

2

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.

3

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

vanilla extract

extract of beef

4

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.

5

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

verb

1

To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

2

To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

to extract an essential oil from a plant

Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

3

To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of

extract a passage from a text.

extract a line from a song.

4

To select parts of a whole

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

5

To determine (a root of a number).

Please extract the cube root of 27.

[…] Mr. Nackybal was thoroughly examined, both in cubing and extracting, from the table that Louit had provided.

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