Word Finder - 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.

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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

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extract of beef

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Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

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quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

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A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

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A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

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Ancestry; descent.

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A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

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To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

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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).

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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.

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To select parts of a whole

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We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

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To determine (a root of a number).

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Please extract the cube root of 27.

To extract the metal, the pitchblende is first roasted in order to remove the arsenic and sulphur.

Rum, sugar, bricks, leather, furniture and extract of meat are manufactured.

Fold in the dry ingredients, add the espresso extract and stir.

Because they wanted to keep her alive long enough to extract it then walk away?

The main active ingredient in his line, mango extract, was difficult to bottle.

In order to soften meat before it is salted, so as to allow the salt to extract the blood more freely, the meat is soaked in water for about half an hour.

Rose Petal extract soothes the skin, to help protect against the harmful effects of external aggressors.

He was then tortured to extract the names of the other plotters.

The sludge can also become too thick to extract easily or turn septic.

Technicians ' Information Assuming 15 working groups Per working group First lesson 3 malt extract agar ' lawn ' cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Grape Seed Extract is a potent antioxidant for protecting skin tissue.

The Six Long Years The seventh extract from the naval autobiography of George John Sallet.

With clarifying Rosemary extract to help clear and prevent blemishes whilst oil absorbing powders help to reduce shine.

When a recipe calls for whole cardamom, crack the pod slightly before adding them to the dish to extract the full flavor.

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The very complimentary extract is included in the Memories section.

Some may take the opportunity to extract concessions in return for their support.

Failing to extract a confession of theft, he resorted to occult methods.

Refractory ore ore from which it is difficult to extract the valuable constituents.

A Russian corer can be used to extract a 2m peat core in 50cm sections.

The main analysis developments will be to develop methods to extract information about phonon dispersion curves.

They were not allowed to fully engorge in order to minimize the amount of blood in the extract.

The advantage of a standardized extract is that the quality control is more assured than for most preparations of the raw herb.

This is an edited extract from Starving Amidst Oceans of Energy by Silvia Hartmann, PhD.

Positive patch test reactions to the latex and to an aqueous extract of the leaves and latex were observed.

So what is a whole plant standardized extract as opposed to an isolated plant constituent and what is a tincture?

As a treatment for the pain, I have recently started on hox alpha, which is concentrated nettle extract.

What is the difference between a herbal extract and an essential oil?

When given pleasant aromas such as almond extract to sniff, the women experienced significantly less pain.

Today, some of the yeast extract used in Marmite still comes from the Bass brewery, along with other breweries in the vicinity.

Then the sweetness comes in with toffee, brandy snaps, crêpes and malt extract.

And rosemary leaf extract stimulates circulation and eases pain by increasing your blood supply.

The cast, for all their virtues, unfortunately failed to extract the full humor of this classic farce.

HealthAid fenugreek is a standardized extract of 200mg with 400mg of raw fenugreek powder.

Three expeditioners had a side adventure to Corte to extract incident forms from the local gendarmes - proved very tricky.

Our experienced structural geologists can extract the maximum amount of information about fractures from your core.

Extract standardized to 24% flavone glycosides and 6% terpene lactones.

Because the damage resembled that caused by viruses, the scientists suspect avocado extract might be useful to treat viral hepatitis.

These moisturizers are 100% free from chemical preservatives, using a combination of grapefruit seed extract and Japanese honeysuckle instead.

Our man made no mistake, leading a diamond to extract the maximum penalty, and we gained 13 imps.

Herbs that may be helpful An animal study showed that an extract of hawthorn significantly reduced the number of experimentally induced arrhythmias.

My Iraqi jailers did everything they could to extract the names of my co-conspirators.

We have also found a spiral fracture on what is possibly a deer bone, opened by a Neanderthal to extract the marrow.

The solution in a liquid extract is to combine the only really good herbs for this effect, yerba mate ' and ginseng species.

On its being exhausted this cooled air was utilized to extract heat from the portion to be expanded at an expansion orifice.

You can extract more large otoliths from the head of an adult fish, but they are not transparent and often have irregular shapes.

For example, in order to extract a single ounce of platinum, about 10 tons of ore need to be mined.

In the experiment with catechol oxidase from bananas, why is sand used to extract the enzyme?

Remove and squeeze dry into the pan to extract pectin, then discard.

Pineapple stem may combat cancer - Two molecules isolated from an extract of crushed pineapple stem may combat cancer - Two molecules isolated from an extract of crushed pineapple stems have shown promise in fighting cancer growth.