Sekirov Dictionary

extract

/ˈɛkstɹækt/

noun 8
/ɪkˈstɹækt/ verb 5
forms 6
phrases 1

noun8

Something that is extracted or drawn out.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
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Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- 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).
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A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
- I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Ancestry; descent.
(no longer used) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

extract

/ɪkˈstɹækt/

verb5

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To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. — 1667
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To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
- extract a passage from a text.
- extract a line from a song.
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To select parts of a whole
- We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
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To determine (a root of a number).
- Please extract the cube root of 27.

forms

extracted · extraught · extracting · extracteth · extracts · extractest

Phrases with extract

extract the urine
to mock, make fun of something

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