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Extract   /ˈɛkstrˌækt/  /ɪkstrˈækt/   Listen
noun
Extract  n.  
1.
That which is extracted or drawn out.
2.
A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
3.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving 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.
4.
(Med.) 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.
5.
(Old Chem.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle. (Obs.)
6.
Extraction; descent. (Obs.)
7.
(Scots Law) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.


verb
Extract  v. t.  (past & past part. extracted; pres. part. extracting)  
1.
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. "The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet."
2.
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. "Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious."
3.
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. "I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods."
To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.





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... party Jim coaxed him, and Jim could be irresistible. Then Margaret said: "Oh, yes, I think I would go." She fixed up both of the boys, and scented their handkerchiefs with her "triple extract," and hoped they would have a nice time, insisting that one ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... Harry, lest the excitement should prove injurious to the patient in the precarious state in which he lay. On my return I found the surgeon of the neighbourhood, Mr. (or as he was more commonly styled Dr.) Probehurt, had arrived, and that they were endeavouring to extract the ball, which, after a long and painful operation, they succeeded in doing. From the marks on the coat and waistcoat, it appeared that Wilford had aimed straight for the heart; but his deadly intentions had been providentially frustrated by the accident of Oaklands having a half-crown piece ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... his degree of B.A. after the ensuing Christmas. Here he published "The Fall of Robespierre" ("Lit. Remains", i, p. 1), of which the first act was written by himself, and the second and third by Mr. Southey, and the particulars of the origin and authorship of which may be found stated in an extract from a letter of Mr. Southey's there printed. The dedication to Mr. Martin is dated at Jesus College, 22nd ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... that when I made the effort I could talk and think quite as rationally as ever, though the wildest pranks were going on in my mind and vision. Kennedy did not beat about in putting his question, evidently counting on the surprise to extract ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... series of terse and pointed directions following one on another, with no attempt at style or literary artifice, but full of a hard sagacity, and with occasional flashes of dry humour, which suggest that Cato would have found a not wholly uncongenial spirit in President Lincoln. A brief extract from one of the earlier chapters is not without interest, both as showing the practical Latin style, and as giving the prose groundwork of Virgil's stately and beautiful ...
— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail


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