extract
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō.
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: (noun): ĕks'trăkt, IPA: /ˈɛkstrækt/, SAMPA: /"Ekstr{kt/
- enPR: (verb): ĭkstrăkt', IPA: /ɪksˈtrækt/, SAMPA: /Iks"tr{kt/
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- Rhymes: -ækt
[edit] Noun
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extract (plural extracts)
- That which is extracted or drawn out.
- A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
- 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.
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.
- A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
- Extraction; descent.
- A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
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[edit] Translations
solution made by drawing out from a substance
solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug
peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts
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[edit] Verb
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to extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past and past participle extracted)
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Compare abstract, transitive verb.
- (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
- Please extract the third root of 27.
[edit] Translations
to draw out
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Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
