1. (v.t.)extract to pull or draw out, usu. with special effort: to extract a tooth.
2. extract to draw forth; educe: to extract information.
3. extract to derive; obtain: extracted satisfaction from her success.
4. extract to take or copy out (excerpts), as from a book.
5. extract to gain with determined effort: to extract a secret from someone.
6. extract to separate or obtain from a mixture, as by pressure, distillation, or treatment with solvents.
7. extract to determine (the root of a quantity).
8. (n.)extract something extracted.
9. extract a passage taken from a written work; excerpt.
10. extract a solid, viscid, or liquid substance containing the essence or active substance of a food, plant, or drug in concentrated form: beef extract; vanilla extract.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < L extractus, ptp. of extrahere to pull out)
Definition of 'Extract'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)infusion, extract a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
2. (verb)excerpt, excerption, extract, selection a passage selected from a larger work "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
3. (verb)extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
4. (verb)extract get despite difficulties or obstacles "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
5. (verb)educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
6. (verb)distill, extract, distil extract by the process of distillation "distill the essence of this compound"
7. (verb)extract separate (a metal) from an ore
8. (verb)press out, express, extract obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
9. (verb)excerpt, extract, take out take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
1. (verb)extract to remove a part or substance from to extract liquid fuel from coal
2. (noun)extract a short piece of writing taken from sth longer an extract from her novel
3. extract a part or substance that has been extracted vanilla extract
Definition of 'Extract'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Extract that which is extracted or drawn out
2. (noun)Extract a portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation
3. (noun)Extract a decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark
4. (noun)Extract a solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4
5. (noun)Extract a peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle
6. (noun)Extract extraction; descent
7. (noun)Extract a draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution
8. (verb)Extract to draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger
9. (verb)Extract to withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6
10. (verb)Extract to take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book
Sense: to pull out, or draw out, especially by force or with effort I have to have a tooth extracted; Did you manage to extract the information from her?
Definitions of Extract 
Afrikaans: trek
Arabic: يَقْتَلِع، يَسْتَخْرِج
Bulgarian: вадя
Brazilian: extrair
Czech: vytáhnout
German: herausholen, ziehen
Danish: trække ud; hale ud
Greek: εξάγω, αποσπώ
Spanish: extraer
Estonian: välja kiskuma
Farsi: بیرون کشیدن؛ کشیدن
Finnish: vetää
French: arracher, tirer (de)
Hebrew: לַעֲקוֹר
Hindi: खींचना, उखाड़ना
Croatian: izvući, izvaditi
Hungarian: kihúz
Indonesian: mencabut
Icelandic: dragaút/úr, toga út
Italian: estrarre
Japanese: 抜きとる
Korean: 뽑다
Lithuanian: ištraukti, išgauti
Latvian: izraut; izdabūt; izdibinā
Malay: mencabut
Dutch: uittrekken
Norwegian: trekke ut/opp, hale ut, p
Polish: wydobywać, usuwać (ząb)
Persian: بیرون کشیدن؛ کشیدن
Pashto: بهرته ايستل
Portuguese: extrair
Romanian: a scoate
Russian: удалять; вырывать
Slovak: vytiahnuť
Slovenian: izpuliti
Serbian: izvući
Swedish: dra ut, få (tvinga) fram
Thai: ถอนออก
Turkish: çekmek
Taiwanese: 拔出
Ukrainian: видавлювати; витягати
Urdu: کھینچنا ، اکھاڑنا
Vietnamese: rút; nhổ
Chinese: 拔出
