extract : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: extract	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extract n a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) Synonym(s): infusion, extract a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" Synonym(s): excerpt, excerption, extract, selection v remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram" Synonym(s): extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions" deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" Synonym(s): educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound" Synonym(s): distill, extract, distil separate (a metal) from an ore obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it" Synonym(s): press out, express, extract take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy Synonym(s): excerpt, extract, take out calculate the root of a number
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extract \Extract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extracted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extracting}.] [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See {Trace}, and cf. {Estreat}.] 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. --Milton. 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. --Swift. {To extract the root} (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Extract \Ex"tract`\, 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 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. 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.] --South. 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. --Tomlins. {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.