English Explanatory Dictionary

extract

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  2. A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to 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. 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. To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
  2. To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
  3. To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
  4. To select parts of a whole
  5. To determine (a root of a number).

Pronunciation

ĕk'străkt /ˈɛkstɹækt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-extract (noun).wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-extract (verb).wav En-us-extract.ogg ĭkstrăkt' /ɪkˈstɹækt/ /ɛkˈstɹækt/

Word forms

extract extracts extracting extracted extraught

Etymology

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

Synonyms

extraction extractive principle origin outdraw sunder out

Related words

tincture

Derived words

coffee extract extract from the criminal record extract from the judicial record extractiform flavour extract Goulard's extract licorice extract Liebig's extract liquorice extract vanilla extract yeast extract phytoextract coextract extractability extractable extractant extractible extractive extract the Michael extract the urine immunoextract nonextracted postextracted preextract reextracted unextracted
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