extract
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arithmetic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
Base: trahō
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: extracts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: extracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: extracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: extracted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: extracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: extraught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Something that is extracted or drawn out.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
pos: noun
examples: I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
gloss: A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
pos: noun
examples: vanilla extract
extract of beef
extract of dandelion
gloss: Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
pos: noun
examples: quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
gloss: A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
pos: noun
gloss: A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Ancestry; descent.
pos: noun
gloss: A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
pos: noun
gloss: To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
There is, in fact, growing recognition in the Department that giving free rein to the open access operators will extract revenue from Great British Railways.
gloss: To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to extract an essential oil from a plant
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
gloss: To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: extract a passage from a text.
extract a line from a song.
extract a clip from a video
extract the drum parts from an mp3.
I have thought it proper to extract out of that pamphlet a few of those notorious falsehoods.
As his work is probably not easily accessible to many of my readers, I shall perhaps consult their convenience by extracting his description entire.
gloss: To select parts of a whole
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
gloss: To determine (a root of a number).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please extract the cube root of 27.
[…] Mr. Nackybal was thoroughly examined, both in cubing and extracting, from the table that Louit had provided.
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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