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Entry 10 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Extract

/ĕk'străkt/ · Ex·tract · IPA /ˈɛkstɹækt/
01 v. t. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from i…
imp. & p. p. Extracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extracting
  1. 1.
    To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
    “The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. See: Abstract
    “Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.”
  3. 3.
    To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
    “I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.” — Swift.
Phrases & compounds
To extract the root — to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
02 n. That which is extracted or drawn out.
  1. 1.
    That which is extracted or drawn out.
  2. 2.
    A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
  3. 3.
    A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
  4. 4.
    A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.(Med.) See: Abstract
  5. 5.
    A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.(Old Chem.) [Obs.] Also: extractive principle
  6. 6.
    Extraction; descent.[Obs.]
  7. 7.
    A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.(Scots Law)
Phrases & compounds
Fluid extract — a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.