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: 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
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