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 Definitions of extract  [ˌɛk strə kɔrˈpɔr i əl, -ˈpoʊr-]  

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Definition of 'extract' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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

10. (verb) extract
calculate the root of a number


Definition of 'extract' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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


Translation of 'extract' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

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?

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: trek Arabic flag Arabic: يَقْتَلِع، يَسْتَخْرِج Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: вадя
Brazilian flag Brazilian: extrair Czech flag Czech: vytáhnout German flag German: herausholen, ziehen
Danish flag Danish: trække ud; hale ud Greek flag Greek: εξάγω, αποσπώ Spanish flag Spanish: extraer
Estonian flag Estonian: välja kiskuma Farsi flag Farsi: بیرون کشیدن؛ کشیدن Finnish flag Finnish: vetää
French flag French: arracher, tirer (de) Hebrew flag Hebrew: לַעֲקוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: खींचना, उखाड़ना
Croatian flag Croatian: izvući, izvaditi Hungarian flag Hungarian: kihúz Indonesian flag Indonesian: mencabut
Icelandic flag Icelandic: dragaút/úr, toga út Italian flag Italian: estrarre Japanese flag Japanese: 抜きとる
Korean flag Korean: 뽑다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ištraukti, išgauti Latvian flag Latvian: izraut; izdabūt; izdibinā
Malay flag Malay: mencabut Dutch flag Dutch: uittrekken Norwegian flag Norwegian: trekke ut/opp, hale ut, p
Polish flag Polish: wydobywać, usuwać (ząb) Persian flag Persian: بیرون کشیدن؛ کشیدن Pashto flag Pashto: بهرته ايستل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: extrair Romanian flag Romanian: a scoate Russian flag Russian: удалять; вырывать
Slovak flag Slovak: vytiahnuť Slovenian flag Slovenian: izpuliti Serbian flag Serbian: izvući
Swedish flag Swedish: dra ut, få (tvinga) fram Thai flag Thai: ถอนออก Turkish flag Turkish: çekmek
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 拔出 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: видавлювати; витягати Urdu flag Urdu: کھینچنا ، اکھاڑنا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: rút; nhổ Chinese flag Chinese: 拔出

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