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).
noun /ˈɛkstrakt/ 
  • 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.
– origin ME: from L. extract-, extrahere ‘draw out’.
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