extract

Noun

extract (plural extracts)

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.

   Synonyms:

   extraction

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

   Synonyms:

   extractive principle

7. Ancestry; descent.

   Synonyms:

   origin, extraction

8. 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

IPA/ɪkˈstɹækt/

extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past extracted, past participle extracted or (archaic) extraught)

1. (transitive) 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.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

   Synonyms:

   outdraw

2. (transitive) 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.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
3. (transitive) To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
   • extract a passage from a text.
   • extract a line from a song.
4. (transitive) To select parts of a whole
   • We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

   Synonyms:

   sunder out

5. (transitive) 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.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC