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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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ækt
[edit] Noun
extract (plural extracts)
- That which is extracted or drawn out.
- A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; 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.
- (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
[edit] Synonyms
- (that which is extracted): extraction
- (a portion of written work in another work):
- (ancestry, descent): origin, extraction
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[edit] See also
[edit] Translations
something extracted
portion of a document
solution made by drawing out from a substance
essence supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts — see extractive principle
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[edit] Verb
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] Synonyms
- (to take by selection) sunder out
[edit] Translations
to draw out
to withdraw in process
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Part or all of this entry 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.
