noun
Meaning 1
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
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noun
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
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noun
A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
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noun
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
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noun
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
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noun
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
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noun
A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Ancestry; descent.
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noun
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
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verb
To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To select parts of a whole
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To determine (a root of a number).
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Usage: transitive
Topics: arithmetic
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noun
a passage selected from a larger work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection
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Broader terms: passage
Narrower terms: chrestomathy, analects, analecta, clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting, cut, track, quotation, quote, citation, Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah
noun
a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: infusion
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Broader terms: solution
Narrower terms: beef tea, Bovril, black catechu, catechu, pancreatin
verb
extract by the process of distillation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: distill, distil
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Broader terms: make, create
Narrower terms: moonshine
verb
calculate the root of a number
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Broader terms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
verb
take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
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Synonyms: excerpt, take out
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Broader terms: choose, take, select, pick out
verb
remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out
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Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
Narrower terms: wring out, squeeze out, demodulate, thread
verb
obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: press out, express
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Broader terms: get, acquire
Narrower terms: ream
verb
separate (a metal) from an ore
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Broader terms: separate
verb
deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: educe, evoke, elicit, draw out
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Broader terms: interpret, construe, see
verb
get despite difficulties or obstacles
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Broader terms: obtain
History
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
Across languages
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