extract

Formsextracts, extracting, extracted

Pluralextracts

1. 1
   verbtransitive

   To pull or draw something out of where it is held or stuck.

   Like pulling a weed out of the ground by its roots.

   The dentist will extract the broken tooth tomorrow.

   Firefighters extracted the driver from the wrecked car.

   Similarremove, pull, withdraw, draw, extricate

   Oppositeinsert

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2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To take a liquid or substance out by pressing, heating, or using chemicals.

   Like squeezing juice out of an orange.

   They extract oil from the seeds by pressing them hard.

   Workers extract sugar from the cane in large factories.

   Similarobtain, derive, distill, remove

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A substance taken out of something, which keeps the qualities of what it came from.

   Like the small bottle of flavoring you add to a cake.

   Vanilla extract makes the cookies smell wonderful.

   He stirred a spoonful of beef extract into the soup.

   Similaressence, concentrate, distillate

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A short piece taken from a book or paper and used in another work.

   The teacher read an extract from the novel aloud.

   This article includes a long extract from the old diary.

   Similarexcerpt, passage, quotation, selection

5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To pick out and quote a part of a text.

   The editor extracted a key line from the speech.

   Reviewers often extract the best quotes from a book.

   Similarquote, cite, excerpt, select

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   A thing that has been pulled or taken out of something else.

   This extract was all that remained after the rest was removed.

   Each extract was carefully labeled in the lab.

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7. 7
   verbtransitive

   To take out certain parts from a larger thing.

   The software extracts the names from a long list.

   Analysts extract useful data from the survey.

   Similarpull, select, glean, isolate, distill

8. 8
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A liquid made by drawing out the active part of a plant or other substance.

   Like tea, where the taste of the leaves passes into the water.

   The herbalist gave her an extract for the cough.

   This extract is made by soaking the bark in water.

   Similarinfusion, essence, concentrate

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9. 9
   nouncountable

   A solid medicine made by drying out the liquid from a plant or drug.

   Like the dried syrup left behind when water is boiled away.

   The chemist sold a dark extract pressed into small blocks.

   This extract dissolves quickly in warm water.

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10. 10
    verbtransitive

    To work out the root of a number, such as its square root.

    Like working backward to find which number, times itself, gives the answer.

    Students learn to extract the square root by hand.

    The calculator extracts the root in an instant.

    Similarcalculate, compute, find, determine

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11. 11
    noununcountable

    The family or background a person comes from.

    Like the roots of a tree that show where it grew from.

    He was a man of noble extract.

    Her extract could be traced to an old farming family.

    Similardescent, ancestry, lineage, extraction, stock

12. 12
    nouncountable

    An official copy of a legal record or court decision.

    Like an official stamped copy of an important paper.

    The clerk handed her an extract of the court's ruling.

    He needed an extract before the order could be enforced.

    Similarcopy, transcript

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