EXTRACT
Definition of EXTRACT
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Something that is extracted or drawn out.
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A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
"I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
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A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
"extract of beef"
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To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
"to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"
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To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
"to extract an essential oil from a plant"
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To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Source: Wiktionary