extract

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Synonyms: extruct, cextract, extrait

Antonyms: extruct, cextract, extrait

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Noun

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, synonymous to a [[citation]]; a [[quotation]]).
3. A [[decoction]], solution, or [[infusion]] made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
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. {{senseid|en|fundamental vegetable essence}}{{lb|en|obsolete}} A peculiar [[principle]] (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
7. [[ancestry|Ancestry]]; descent.
8. {{rfv-sense|en}} A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[draw out]]; to [[pull out]]; to [[remove]] [[forcibly]] from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[withdraw]] by [[squeeze|squeezing]], [[distillation]], or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare [[abstract]] (transitive verb).
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[pick out]]; to cite or reproduce a [[snippet]] of
4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[select]] parts of a whole
5. {{lb|en|transitive|arithmetic}} To determine (a root of a number).

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