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Definition of Extract

Extract 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. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. That which is extracted or drawn out. A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing 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. 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. A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle. Extraction; descent. A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. Related Definitions: Abstract, Action, All, Also, An, And, Any, As, Bark, Basis, Beef, Book, By, Called, Certified, Characteristic, Chemical, Choose, Citation, Cite, Copy, Dandelion, Decoction, Descent, Distillation, Distinguished, Document, Draught, Draw, Drawing, Drawn, Drug, Earth, Essence, Essential, Evaporating, Execution, Expression, Extract, Extracted, Extraction, Extractive, Finger, Fixed, For, Forcibly, Form, Forth, Fresh, From, Gives, Important, In, Infusion, Is, It, Juice, Made, Mechanical, Most, Obtained, Of, Once, Or, Order, Other, Out, Passage, Peculiar, Peruvian, Plant, Portion, Position, Preparation, Principle, Process, Pull, Quinine, Quotation, Quote, Remove, See, Selection, So, Socket, Solid, Solution, Splinter, Stump, Substance, Suction, Supposed, Take, That, The, Therein, To, Tooth, Traction, Transcribed, Vegetable, Virtue, Which, With, Withdraw, Writing

Extract Quotations One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. Victor Hugo It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. Arthur Eddington How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. Robert Bulwer-Lytton I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. Tim O'Reilly But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described. George Ripley

Extract Translations extract in Dutch is afleiden extract in French is extrayons, extrais, extrayez, extraire, extraient extract in German is gewinnen, entnehmen, Auszug {m} extract in Italian is compendio, estrassi, estrarre extract in Latin is extraho extraxi extractum extract in Norwegian is trekke ut, utdrag, ekstrakt extract in Portuguese is extrato extract in Spanish is extractar, extracto, extraer, egreso extract in Swedish is packa upp, utdrag

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