Extract

Quick meaning: Extract is a noun meaning Something that is extracted or drawn out.

Meaning

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

vanilla extract

extract of beef

extract of dandelion

The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

Word Forms

• extracts
• extracting
• extracted
• extraught

Synonyms for extract

Depending on context, synonyms include extraction, origin, outdraw, elicit, evoke, educe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include educe, elicit, pull out, evoke, selection, excerpt.

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