Word Finder - extracts

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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.