extract

B2
Noun
8 definition(s)
1 Definition

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

2 Definition

A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

Example Sentences
  • I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
3 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • extract of beef
4 Definition

Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

Example Sentences
  • quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
5 Definition

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

6 Definition

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

7 Definition

Ancestry; descent.

8 Definition

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
5 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
2 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • to extract an essential oil from a plant
3 Definition

To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

4 Definition

To select parts of a whole

Example Sentences
  • We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
5 Definition

To determine (a root of a number).

Example Sentences
  • Please extract the cube root of 27.