extract
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extract
▶verb /ɪkˈstrakt, ɛk-/
- 1 remove, especially by effort or force.
■ obtain (money, information, etc.) from someone unwilling to give it.
- 2 obtain (a substance) from something by a special method.
- 3 select (a passage from a text, film, or piece of music) for quotation, performance, or reproduction.
■ derive (an idea) from a situation or source.
- 4 Mathematics calculate (a root of a number).
- 1 a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.
- 2 a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form: vanilla extract.
– derivatives
extractability noun,
extractable adjective,
extractive adjective.
extractability noun,
extractable adjective,
extractive adjective.
– origin ME: from L. extract-, extrahere ‘draw out’.
'extract' also found in these Oxford entries:
abstract
- beef tea
- cannabis
- catechu
- coal
- cola
- decoct
- demodulate
- dig
- distil
- draw
- dulcamara
- enucleate
- essence
- estreat
- excerpt
- extractor
- gambier
- gobbet
- gold-digger
- have
- infuse
- infusion
- isolate
- juice
- malted
- Marmite
- milk
- mulct
- pericope
- pomace
- press
- quarry
- quintessence
- read
- recover
- render
- retrieve
- rhatany
- root beer
- sample
- sassafras
- savin
- separate
- smelt
- snippet
- sound bite
- squeeze
- squill

