Extract

/ˈɛkstɹækt/ · noun

Meaning

Something that is extracted or drawn out..

Definitions by Sense

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
6. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
7. Ancestry; descent.
8. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Example Sentences

I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.

vanilla extract

extract of beef

extract of dandelion

quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

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Word Forms

• extracts
• extracting
• extracted
• extraught

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