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extract.

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɛkstɹækt/
  1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.

  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).

    I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

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

    obsolete
  7. Ancestry; descent.

  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.

Where this word comes from

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

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

    transitive
    to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
  2. To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

    transitive
    to extract an essential oil from a plant
  3. To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of

    transitive
    extract a passage from a text.
    extract a line from a song.
  4. To select parts of a whole

    transitive
    We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
  5. To determine (a root of a number).

    transitive
    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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