extract

noun

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).

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.

(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

verb

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

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

(transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.

(transitive) To select parts of a whole

(transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

Roots

traho-tract · Latin · draw, pull

Synonyms for extract

excerptn distillv extractionn pullv elicitv infusionn retrievev derivev removev extricatev obtainv gleanv decoctionn recoverv wrestv

Words related to extract

educev extractibleadj cajuput extractableadj eductiveadj extractorn extractiveadj redistill catechun expellerv decodev parsev decryptv pluckv dislodgev

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