extracting

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

trahotract- · Latin · draw, pull

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