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Extract

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

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📖 Definitions of "Extract"

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.
"I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
3
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
"extract of beef"
4
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
"quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."

verb

1
To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
"to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"
2
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
"to extract an essential oil from a plant"
3
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
4
To select parts of a whole
"We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."

🔄 Synonyms of "Extract"

13 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
elicitverb	To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
evokeverb	(transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
educeverb	(transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
expressverb	(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
selectionnoun	The process or act of selecting.
pull outverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
draw outverb	To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend.
infusionnoun	A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
excerptnoun	A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
distillverb	US standard spelling of distil. [(transitive) To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.]
take outverb	To remove.
distilverb	(transitive) To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
press outverb	Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Extract"

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Word	Definition
educeverb	(transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
draw outverb	To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend.
elicitverb	To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
take outverb	To remove.
pull outverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
evokeverb	(transitive) To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.
selectionnoun	The process or act of selecting.
excerptverb	(transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
distilverb	(transitive) To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
infusionnoun	A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
press outverb	Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.
expressverb	(transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
distillverb	US standard spelling of distil. [(transitive) To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.]
extractivenoun	That withdraws natural resources by extraction
extractionnoun	The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
pullverb	(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
generateverb	(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
liftverb	(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
removed	Separated in time, space, or degree.
pryverb	(intransitive) To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.