extract
Other forms: extracts; extracted; extracting
When you extract something, you remove it from a larger whole. You can extract a passage from a book, or a liquid essence from a vanilla bean—vanilla extract.
Ex- means out of, and when you extract, you draw something out of something else. When listening to a complicated and long-winded story, it can be difficult to extract the truly meaningful details.
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remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense“extract a bad tooth”“extract information from the telegram”
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draw, get out, pull, pull out, take out
bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
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squeeze out, wring out
extract (liquid) by squeezing or pressing
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demodulate
extract information from a modulated carrier wave
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thread
remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string
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draw, get out, pull, pull out, take out
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extract by the process of distillation
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separate (a metal) from an ore
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separate
divide into components or constituents
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separate
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obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
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get despite difficulties or obstacles“I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions”
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obtain
come into possession of
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obtain
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take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
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deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
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calculate the root of a number
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a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
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infusion
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Bovril, beef tea
an extract of beef (given to people who are ill)
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black catechu, catechu
extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally
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pancreatin
extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions
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solution
a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution
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Bovril, beef tea
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a passage selected from a larger work
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synonyms:
excerpt, excerption, selection
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Haphtarah
a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah
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chrestomathy
a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language
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analecta, analects
a collection of excerpts from a literary work
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clipping, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
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cut, track
a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
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citation, quotation, quote
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
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epigraph
a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
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mimesis
the representation of another person's words in a speech
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misquotation, misquote
an incorrect quotation
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passage
a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
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Haphtarah
Vocabulary lists containing extract
When eleven-year-old Tokunbo Marshall moves with her mother into a Harlem brownstone, she must adjust to an extended family that includes three new sisters who see everything in life as a possible project in their self-designed education.
Teenagers Penelope and Xander navigate first love and family matters while working at Penelope's father's restaurant.
Harry can't wait to return for his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, until a house elf named Dobby warns him of terrible danger ahead. When students start turning to stone — and Harry is a prime suspect — the boy wizard must figure out what's really going on at Hogwarts.
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