extracting
Sayik-STRAK-ting/ɪkˈstɹæktɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of extract.
The crew spent weeks extracting oil from the crushed seeds.
Engineers are extracting valuable metal from the leftover ore.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs. It carries progressive tenses (they are extracting the data), and it works as a verbal noun (extracting a root takes patience). Every verb sense of extract is transitive, so extracting normally comes with its object, and often with from: extracting oil from seeds, a passage from a text. A mathematician extracts a root of a number.
extracting is a form of extract
extract, verb: To draw or pull something out, removing it forcibly from a fixed position by traction, suction, or similar means. Full entry
- Spelling
- extract → extracting: add -ing
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