extract
Meaning
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- Something that 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
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
renege on
substract
abridged form
drag away
pick from
pull a tooth
draw forth
begin to write
make an excerpt
clip from
take sth out
tug at
lead down
draw off or aside
passage selected
take or draw out
squeeze for
take excerpts to deduct
extracting solution
extraction and purification
extractum
make emerge
abduce
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɛkstɹækt/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“I drag”).
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