extract.
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Meaning & usage
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
vanilla extract
extract of beef
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
Ancestry; descent.
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
to extract an essential oil from a plant
To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
extract a passage from a text.
extract a line from a song.
To select parts of a whole
We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
To determine (a root of a number).
Please extract the cube root of 27.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
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