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extract

noun · verb · 23 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • ĕk'străkt
  • /ˈɛkstɹækt/
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  • rhymes with -ækt
  • ĭkstrăkt'
  • /ɪkˈstɹækt/
  • /ɛkˈstɹækt/
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  • California, Southern: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 K S T R AE2 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: IH0 K S T R AE1 K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • vanilla extract
  • extract of beef
  • extract of dandelion

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Ancestry; descent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to extract an essential oil from a plant

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To select parts of a whole

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To determine (a root of a number).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: arithmetic

Examples

  • Please extract the cube root of 27.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

a passage selected from a larger work

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection

Antonyms: none provided

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

15

noun

Meaning 15

a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: infusion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: solution

Narrower terms: beef tea, Bovril, black catechu, catechu, pancreatin

16

verb

Meaning 16

extract by the process of distillation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • distill the essence of this compound

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: distill, distil

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: make, create

Narrower terms: moonshine

17

verb

Meaning 17

calculate the root of a number

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure

18

verb

Meaning 18

take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: excerpt, take out

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: choose, take, select, pick out

19

verb

Meaning 19

remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • pull weeds
  • extract a bad tooth
  • take out a splinter
  • extract information from the telegram

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw

Narrower terms: wring out, squeeze out, demodulate, thread

20

verb

Meaning 20

obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Italians express coffee rather than filter it

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: press out, express

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: get, acquire

Narrower terms: ream

21

verb

Meaning 21

separate (a metal) from an ore

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: separate

22

verb

Meaning 22

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: educe, evoke, elicit, draw out

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: interpret, construe, see

23

verb

Meaning 23

get despite difficulties or obstacles

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: obtain

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).

Across languages

Translations

202 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: екстра́кт (ekstrákt) — something extracted
  • Czech: extrakt — something extracted
  • Danish: ekstrakt — something extracted
  • Esperanto: ekstrakto — something extracted
  • Finnish: ote — something extracted
  • Finnish: katkelma — something extracted
  • Finnish: uute — something extracted
  • French: extrait — something extracted
  • German: Auszug — something extracted
  • Hungarian: kivonat — something extracted
  • Indonesian: ekstrak — something extracted
  • Indonesian: pati — something extracted
  • Indonesian: sari — something extracted
  • Latin: extractum — something extracted
  • Malay: ekstrak — something extracted
  • Malay: sari — something extracted
  • Maltese: silta — something extracted
  • Māori: hīkarotanga — something extracted
  • Norwegian: ekstrakt — something extracted
  • Norwegian Bokmål: uttrekk — something extracted
  • Norwegian Bokmål: utdrag — something extracted
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: uttrekk n utdrag — something extracted
  • Polish: wyciąg — something extracted
  • Polish: ekstrakt — something extracted
  • Portuguese: extrato — something extracted
  • Romanian: extract — something extracted
  • Russian: экстра́кт (ekstrákt) — something extracted
  • Russian: извлече́ние (izvlečénije) — something extracted
  • Spanish: extracto — something extracted
  • Arabic: مُقْتَطَف (muqtaṭaf) — portion of a document
  • Azerbaijani: çıxarış — portion of a document
  • Bulgarian: извадка (izvadka) — portion of a document
  • Bulgarian: извлечение (izvlečenie) — portion of a document
  • Danish: uddrag — portion of a document
  • Dutch: fragment — portion of a document
  • Esperanto: ekstrakto — portion of a document
  • Finnish: ote — portion of a document
  • Finnish: katkelma — portion of a document
  • Finnish: lainaus — portion of a document
  • French: extrait — portion of a document
  • German: Auszug — portion of a document
  • Greek: απόσπασμα (apóspasma) — portion of a document
  • Hungarian: kivonat — portion of a document
  • Hungarian: részlet — portion of a document
  • Hungarian: szemelvény — portion of a document
  • Italian: estratto — portion of a document
  • Latin: excerptum — portion of a document
  • Maltese: silta — portion of a document
  • Māori: wāhanga — portion of a document
  • Māori: hīkarotanga — portion of a document
  • Norwegian Bokmål: utdrag — portion of a document
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: utdrag — portion of a document
  • Polish: wypis — portion of a document
  • Polish: wyjątek — portion of a document
  • Polish: wyciąg — portion of a document
  • Romanian: extras — portion of a document
  • Russian: вы́держка (výderžka) — portion of a document
  • Spanish: extracto — portion of a document
  • Spanish: fragmento — portion of a document
  • Spanish: pasaje — portion of a document
  • Swedish: utdrag — portion of a document
  • Ukrainian: ви́тяг (výtjah) — portion of a document
  • Arabic: خلاصة (ḵulāṣa) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Azerbaijani: çıxarış — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Azerbaijani: ekstrakt — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Bulgarian: екстракт (ekstrakt) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Chinese Cantonese: 精 (zing1) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Chinese Mandarin: 精 (jīng) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Czech: extrakt — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Czech: výtažek — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Esperanto: ekstrakto — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Finnish: uutos — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Finnish: uute — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • French: extrait — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • German: Extrakt — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Ancient Greek: ἀπόζεμα (apózema) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Ancient Greek: ἀπόζεσμα (apózesma) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Hebrew: תַּמְצִית (tamtzít) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Hungarian: esszencia — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Hungarian: sűrítmény — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Hungarian: párlat — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Hungarian: kivonat — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Indonesian: ekstrak — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Indonesian: pati — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Indonesian: sari — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Italian: estratto — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Japanese: エキス (ekisu) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Japanese: 越幾斯 (ekisu) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Latin: extractum — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Malay: sari — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Malay: ekstrak — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Norwegian Bokmål: uttrekk — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: uttrekk — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Persian: عصاره ('osâre) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Polish: wyciąg — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Polish: ekstrakt — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Portuguese: extrato — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Romanian: extract — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Russian: экстра́кт (ekstrákt) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Russian: вы́тяжка (výtjažka) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Spanish: extracto — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Turkish: ekstre — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Ukrainian: екстра́кт (ekstrákt) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Ukrainian: ви́тяжка (výtjažka) — solution made by drawing out from a substance
  • Finnish: jauhe — solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug
  • Latin: extractum — solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug
  • Finnish: syntyperä — extraction, descent
  • Hungarian: származás — extraction, descent
  • Hungarian: eredet — extraction, descent
  • Latin: antecessūra — extraction, descent
  • Finnish: ote — draft or copy of writing
  • Finnish: katkelma — draft or copy of writing
  • Arabic: استخرج (istaḵrag) — to draw out
  • Bulgarian: вадя (vadja) — to draw out
  • Bulgarian: изваждам (izvaždam) — to draw out
  • Catalan: extreure — to draw out
  • Chichewa: kuzúla — to draw out
  • Czech: vytáhnout — to draw out
  • Finnish: vetää ulos — to draw out
  • Finnish: poistaa — to draw out
  • Finnish: vetää pois — to draw out
  • French: extraire — to draw out
  • Old French: estraire — to draw out
  • Friulian: gjavâ — to draw out
  • Galician: extraer — to draw out
  • Galician: arrincar — to draw out
  • German: entnehmen — to draw out
  • German: herausziehen — to draw out
  • German: ziehen — to draw out
  • Greek: εξάγω (exágo) — to draw out
  • Hebrew: חילץ (khilétz) — to draw out
  • Hebrew: עקר (akár) — to draw out
  • Hungarian: kihúz — to draw out
  • Hungarian: kivesz — to draw out
  • Hungarian: kiszed — to draw out
  • Hungarian: előhúz — to draw out
  • Hungarian: elővesz — to draw out
  • Interlingua: extraher — to draw out
  • Irish: bain — to draw out
  • Italian: cavare — to draw out
  • Japanese: 抜歯する (basshi suru) — to draw out
  • Latin: extrahō — to draw out
  • Latin: ēiciō — to draw out
  • Māori: hīkaro — to draw out
  • Māori: whakapūreo — to draw out
  • Māori: whakapūrero — to draw out
  • Māori: kohika — to draw out
  • Mongolian: сугалах (sugalax) — to draw out
  • Norman: êrachi — to draw out
  • Norwegian: ekstrahere — to draw out
  • Persian: بیرون کشیدن (birun kešidan) — to draw out
  • Polish: wyciągnąć — to draw out
  • Polish: wyciągać — to draw out
  • Polish: wydobyć — to draw out
  • Polish: wydobywać — to draw out
  • Polish: wyrwać — to draw out
  • Polish: wyrywać — to draw out
  • Portuguese: extrair — to draw out
  • Russian: извлека́ть (izvlekátʹ) — to draw out
  • Russian: извле́чь (izvléčʹ) — to draw out
  • Spanish: extraer — to draw out
  • Spanish: sacar — to draw out
  • Swedish: extrahera — to draw out
  • Telugu: పీకు (pīku) — to draw out
  • Ottoman Turkish: چكمك (çekmek) — to draw out
  • Ukrainian: витяга́ти (vytjaháty) — to draw out
  • Ukrainian: витя́гувати (vytjáhuvaty) — to draw out
  • Ukrainian: ви́тягти (výtjahty) — to draw out
  • Ukrainian: ви́тягнути (výtjahnuty) — to draw out
  • Venetan: cavar — to draw out
  • Bulgarian: извличам (izvličam) — to withdraw in process
  • Catalan: extreure — to withdraw in process
  • Czech: extrahovat — to withdraw in process
  • Finnish: uuttaa — to withdraw in process
  • French: extraire — to withdraw in process
  • German: entziehen — to withdraw in process
  • Hebrew: מיצה (mitzá) — to withdraw in process
  • Hungarian: kivon — to withdraw in process
  • Hungarian: kinyer — to withdraw in process
  • Hungarian: kitermel — to withdraw in process
  • Hungarian: kiszív — to withdraw in process
  • Hungarian: elszív — to withdraw in process
  • Interlingua: extraher — to withdraw in process
  • Malagasy: fia — to withdraw in process
  • Persian: استخراج کردن (estexrâj kardan) — to withdraw in process
  • Polish: ekstrahować — to withdraw in process
  • Polish: wyekstrahować — to withdraw in process
  • Bulgarian: извличам (izvličam) — to take by selection
  • Catalan: extreure — to take by selection
  • Finnish: poimia — to take by selection
  • Finnish: lainata — to take by selection
  • Finnish: siteerata — to take by selection
  • Hungarian: kiemel — to take by selection
  • Latin: excerpō — to take by selection
  • Bulgarian: изнасям (iznasjam) — to determine
  • Bulgarian: езнеса (eznesa) — to determine
  • Finnish: määrittää — to determine
  • Finnish: laskea — to determine
  • German: ziehen — to determine
  • Greek: υπολογίζω (ypologízo) — to determine
  • Hungarian: von — to determine
  • Hungarian: kivon — to determine