extract

English Online Dictionary. What means extract‎? What does extract mean?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) +‎ trahō (“I drag”).

Pronunciation

• (noun): enPR: ĕks'trăkt, IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹækt/
• (verb): enPR: ĭkstrăkt', IPA^(key): /ɪksˈtɹækt/, IPA^(key): /ɛksˈtɹækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

extract (plural extracts)

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; 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

   vanilla extract

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

5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
7. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
8. Ancestry; descent.
9. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Synonyms

• (that which is extracted): extraction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
• (principle): extractive principle
• (ancestry, descent): origin, extraction

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• tincture

Verb

extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past extracted, past participle extracted or (archaic) extraught)

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

   to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
2. (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
3. (transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.
4. (transitive) To select parts of a whole

5. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

Synonyms

• (to draw out): outdraw
• (to take by selection): sunder out

Derived terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch extract, from Latin extractum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛksˈtrɑkt/
• Hyphenation: ex‧tract
• Rhymes: -ɑkt

Noun

extract n (plural extracten)

1. extract, decoction

   Synonym: aftreksel

2. (obsolete) abridgement of a text

   Synonym: uittreksel

Derived terms

• plantenextract
• thee-extract

Descendants

• → Indonesian: ekstrak

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extractus.

Noun

extract n (plural extracte)

1. extract

Declension