Extract
[ˈekstrækt] or ['ɛkstrækt]
Definition
(verb.) calculate the root of a number.
(verb.) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; 'pull weeds'; 'extract a bad tooth'; 'take out a splinter'; 'extract information from the telegram'.
(verb.) separate (a metal) from an ore.
(verb.) get despite difficulties or obstacles; 'I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions'.
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
(v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.
(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
(n.) A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
(n.) Extraction; descent.
(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Checker: Merle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Draw out, pull out, take out.[2]. Derive (by chemical process).[3]. Select (from a literary work), cite, quote.[4]. (Math.) Determine or find (a root).
n. [1]. Quotation, citation, excerpt, passage quoted.[2]. (Med.) Inspissated infusion or decoction.
Typist: Tyler
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Draw, educe, elicit, cite, excerpt, select, take_out, gather, quote, collect,extol
ANT:Replace, insert, restore, impose, incorporate, reinsert
Typist: Lucas
Definition
v.t. to draw out by force or otherwise: to choose out or select: to find out: to distil.—n. Ex′tract anything drawn from a substance by heat distillation &c. as an essence: a passage taken from a book or writing.—adjs. Extract′able Extract′ible; Extract′iform.—n. Extrac′tion act of extracting: derivation from a stock or family: birth: lineage: that which is extracted.—adj. Extract′ive tending or serving to extract.—n. an extract.—n. Extract′or he who or that which extracts.—Extract the root of a quantity to find its root by a mathematical process; Extractive matter the soluble portions of any drug.
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Examples
- They would extract good from the excess of evil,[440] and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We extract the following from the speech of Hon. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I will read an extract from a letter written by a lady who received the cream: ‘Universities Mission To Central Africa, ‘Mbweni, Zanzibar, March 8, 1881. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With such eyebrows, and a look so decidedly bilious, how was he to extract that money from the governor, of which George was consumedly in want? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A month or six weeks later I saw an extract from an American newspaper, describing the departure of the adventurers on their inland journey. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This time, Mr. Lorry feigned to go out when he could extract no answer from him, and, after remaining absent for an hour, returned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We shall offer a few brief extracts from some of these decisions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We copied it from the Elegant Extracts. Jane Austen. Emma.
- These will be found in the following extracts from one of the note-books, and consist of Edison's instructions to be carried out in detail by his experimenters: Take, say, 25 lbs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The above extracts are good illustrations, however, of scientific opinions up to the end of 1879, when Mr. Edison's epoch-making invention rendered them entirely untenable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client is. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- From the ship he was extracted by a writ of _habeas corpus_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The finest and palest oil is made from fresh and carefully cleaned liver, the oil being extracted either in the cold or by a gentle heat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A crude gift of nature, in the mountain side, it remained, however, a sodden mass until extracted, refined, and wrought into shape by the genius of man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Madame raised my salary; but she got thrice the work out of me she had extracted from Mr. Wilson, at half the expense. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Did one have to die like this--having the life extracted forcibly from one, whilst one smiled and made conversation to the end? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In alluvial deposits it is extracted by washing, in dust grains, lamin? or nuggets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr. Godfrey felt Christian fingers unfastening his bandage, and extracting his gag. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They are very liable to decay early, are very large, and should never be allowed to require extracting. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I have heard that chymists can by their art decompose stone and wood, extracting a considerable quantity of water from the one and air from the other. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Steam and the distillation processes have been applied with great success to the making of glycerine from fat and from soap underlye and in extracting fat from various waste products. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Edith