Extract
Extract , transitive verb
[Latin extractus, past participle of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and compare Estreat.]
1.
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.
The bee
Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
2.
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Compare Abstract, transitive verb, 6.
Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.
3.
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
Collocations (1)
To extract the root (Mathematics) , to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
Extract , noun
1.
That which is extracted or drawn out.
2.
A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
3.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving 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.
4.
(Medicine) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
5.
(Old Chemistry) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle. [Obsolete]
6.
Extraction; descent. [Obsolete] — South
7.
(Scots Law) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. — Tomlins
Collocations (1)
Fluid extract (Medicine) , a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.