ex·tract
verb
remove or take out, especially by effort or force.
"the decayed tooth will have to be extracted"
synonyms: take out, draw out, bring out, pull out, remove, withdraw, pluck out, fish out, prize out, extricate, wrench out, tear out, uproot, unsheathe, produce, free, release, deracinate
noun
- a short passage taken from a piece of writing, music, or film."an extract from a historical film"synonyms: excerpt, passage, abstract, citation, selection, quotation, cutting, clipping, snippet, fragment, piece, analects
- a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form."vanilla extract"synonyms: decoction, distillation, distillate, abstraction, concentrate, essence, juice, solution, tincture, elixir, quintessence, decocture, apozem
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8 days ago · 1. a : to draw forth (as by research) extract data b : to pull or take out forcibly extracted a wisdom tooth c : to obtain by much effort from someone ...
EXTRACT meaning: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.
to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth. to deduce (a doctrine, principle, interpretation, etc.)
When you extract something, you remove it from a larger whole. You can extract a passage from a book, or a liquid essence from a vanilla bean—vanilla extract.
extract in American English · 1. to draw out by effort; pull out · 2. to remove or separate (metal) from ore · 3. to obtain (a substance, esp. · 4. to obtain as ...
(EK-strakt) In medicine, a preparation of a substance obtained from plants, animals, or bacteria and used as a drug or in drugs.
EXTRACT meaning: 1 : to remove (something) by pulling it out or cutting it out; 2 : to get (information, a response, etc.) from someone who does not want to ...
An extract (essence) is a substance made by extracting a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol, oil or water.
[countable] extract (from something) a short passage from a book, piece of music, etc. that gives you an idea of what the whole thing is like.
1extract something (from somebody/something) to remove or obtain a substance from something, for example by using an industrial or a chemical process a machine ...
