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Extract   /ˈɛkstrˌækt/  /ɪkstrˈækt/   Listen
Extract

noun
1.
A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water).  Synonym: infusion.
2.
A passage selected from a larger work.  Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection.
verb
(past & past part. extracted; pres. part. extracting)
1.
Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.  Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, take out.  "Extract a bad tooth" , "Take out a splinter" , "Extract information from the telegram"
2.
Get despite difficulties or obstacles.
3.
Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).  Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke.
4.
Extract by the process of distillation.  Synonyms: distil, distill.
5.
Separate (a metal) from an ore.
6.
Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.  Synonyms: express, press out.
7.
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.  Synonyms: excerpt, take out.
8.
Calculate the root of a number.



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"Extract" Quotes from Famous Books



... from particular maladies, "deaf-mutism", which is looked upon as an excrescence upon society, would in the course of a short time be stamped out. An illustration of this conception is the following extract from the Handbook of the Child Welfare Exhibit held in New York in 1911 (p. 38): "Mating of the Unfit. 'The Law'. Marriages of cousins, insane or feeble-minded, alcoholic, syphilitic parents and effects. The cost—7,369 blind infants, 89,287 deaf and dumb, 18,476 feeble-minded". ...
— The Deaf - Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their - Education in the United States • Harry Best
... stopped again; and the professor, who was fond of Don Rocco on account of his simple goodness, and also because he could make him the butt of amiable banter, made him sit down by his side on the grass, and attempted a final argument, seeking in every way to extract from him his reasons for continuing so long to believe in the innocence of Lucia; but he did not succeed in getting at any result. Don Rocco kept always referring to what he had said the evening before to Countess Carlotta, and repeated ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian • Various
... notoriety in France by the ferocity of his conduct. Wherever his band went they had swept the country, and the most atrocious tortures had been inflicted on all well-to-do persons who had fallen into their hands, to extract from them the secret of buried hoards or bonds, entailing upon them the loss of ...
— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty
... from Argentina" extract reads: "Not many months ago, Argentina was blessed by the Pope. Note what has happened since:—The Archbishop, who was the bearer of the blessing and brought it from Rome, has since died very suddenly; we have had a terrible visitation of heat suffocation, hundreds ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray
... processes are not limited to the zone above the ground-water level. Locally oxidizing solutions may penetrate and do effective work to much greater depths, especially where the rocks traversed at higher elevations are of such composition or in such a stage of alteration as not to extract most of the oxygen. Consequently the presence of oxide ores below the water table is not necessarily proof that the water table has risen since their formation. On the other hand, the facts of observation do indicate generally a ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith


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