Extract Definition

ĭk-străkt

extracted, extracting, extracts

verb

extracted, extracting, extracts

To draw out by effort; pull out.

To extract a tooth, to extract a promise from someone.

Webster's New World

To obtain despite resistance.

Extract a promise.

American Heritage

To remove or separate (metal) from ore.

Webster's New World

To obtain (a substance, esp. an essence or concentrate) by pressing, distilling, using a solvent, etc.

To extract juice from fruit.

Webster's New World

To obtain as if by drawing out; deduce (a principle), derive or elicit (information, pleasure, etc.), or the like.

Webster's New World

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edit in
insert
add
put in

noun

Something extracted.

Webster's New World

A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.

Wiktionary

Ancestry; descent.

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insertion
whole

Other Word Forms of Extract

Noun

Singular:

extract

Plural:

extracts

Origin of Extract

Middle English extracten from Latin extrahere extract- ex- ex- trahere to draw

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō.

From Wiktionary