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/ˈɛkstrˌækt/ /ɪkstrˈækt/ Listen

noun

Extract n.

1.

That which is extracted or drawn out.

2.

A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

3.

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

4.

(Med.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

5.

(Old Chem.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle. (Obs.)

6.

Extraction; descent. (Obs.)

7.

(Scots Law) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.

verb

Extract v. t. (past & past part. extracted; pres. part. extracting)

1.

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. "The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet."

2.

To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. "Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious."

3.

To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. "I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods."

To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

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Etymology of 'Extract'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Extract" Quotes from Famous Books

... is already on board a north-bound freight steamer," answered Tom, "and ought to get here within the next ten days. It'll require at least three weeks to extract all the X and cast it into shape. Taking everything into consideration, I should say it will be at least six weeks before we can test the device. The matter depends entirely on finding a lot of X in the planet stone. But I'm sure ...

— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton

... philanthropic zeal which is apparent in this extract animated every part of Lord Shaftesbury's nature and every action of his life. He had, if ever man had, "the Enthusiasm of Humanity." His religion, on its interior side, was rapt, emotional, and sometimes mystic; but at the same time it was, in its outward manifestations, ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... him as I might. Was it before this or after that I wandered about for an hour in the small canals, to the continued stupefaction of my gondolier, who had never seen me so restless and yet so void of a purpose and could extract from me no order but "Go anywhere—everywhere—all over the place"? He reminded me that I had not lunched and expressed therefore respectfully the hope that I would dine earlier. He had had long periods of leisure during the day, when I had left the boat ...

— The Aspern Papers • Henry James

... built works. In the especial jurisprudence of wit and wisdom the custom is to steal more dearly a leaf wrested from the book of Nature and Truth, than all the indifferent volumes from which, however fine they be, it is impossible to extract either a laugh or a tear. The author has licence to say this without any impropriety, since it is not his intention to stand upon tiptoe in order to obtain an unnatural height, but because it is a question of the majesty of his art, and not of himself—a ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... should prove injurious to the patient in the precarious state in which he lay. On my return I found the surgeon of the neighbourhood, Mr. (or as he was more commonly styled Dr.) Probehurt, had arrived, and that they were endeavouring to extract the ball, which, after a long and painful operation, they succeeded in doing. From the marks on the coat and waistcoat, it appeared that Wilford had aimed straight for the heart; but his deadly intentions had been providentially frustrated ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

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