extract

Meaning

Noun

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; 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.

Verb

1. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
2. (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
3. (transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.
4. (transitive) To select parts of a whole
5. (transitive) To determine (a root of a number).

Synonyms

pull out

excerpt

take out

draw out

essence

remove

withdraw

elicit

mine

pull

infusion

draw

squeeze

pull up

uproot

quarry

extort

passage

selection

quotation

press

educe

take

abstract

quote

bring out

press out

distill

wring

write out

cite

express

tear off

wrest

evoke

produce

boil down

omit

obtain

juice

distil

haul

pick out

extractive

extraction

get out

dig

extracting

glean

detach

Translations

extraire

extrait

extracto

estrarre

extraer

estratto

Auszug

sacar

arracher

extrato

Extrakt

herausziehen

extrair

cavare

extreure

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛkstɹækt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).