Decompress vs. Extract — What's the Difference?

Relieve or reduce the pressure on (something).

An extract is a substance made by extracting a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol, oil or water. Extracts may be sold as tinctures, absolutes or in powder form.

Calm down and relax

Remove or take out, especially by effort or force

To relieve of pressure or compression.

Calculate (a root of a number)

To bring (a person exposed to conditions of increased pressure) gradually back to normal atmospheric pressure.

A short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music

To adjust to normal atmospheric conditions after being exposed to increased pressure.

A preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form

(Informal) To relax

To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort

(transitive) To relieve the pressure or compression on something.

To obtain despite resistance

(transitive) To bring someone (such as a diver) back to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.

To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action, as by pressure, distillation, or evaporation.

To restore (compressed data) to its original form.

To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt.

(intransitive) To adjust to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.

To derive or obtain (information, for example) from a source.

To relax.

To deduce (a principle or doctrine); construe (a meaning).

To undergo the process of decompression.

To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.

To subject to the process of decompression.

(Mathematics) To determine or calculate (the root of a number).

Restore to its uncompressed form;

A passage from a literary work; an excerpt.

Decrease the pressure of;

A concentrated preparation of the essential constituents of a food, flavoring, or other substance; a concentrate

Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease;

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

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

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

Ancestry; descent.

A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

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

(transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

(transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

(transitive) To select parts of a whole

To determine (a root of a number).

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.

To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

That which is extracted or drawn out.

A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

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.

A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; - called also the extractive principle.

Extraction; descent.

A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

A passage selected from a larger work;

Draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense;

Get despite difficulties or obstacles;

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);

Extract by the process of distillation;

Separate (a metal) from an ore

Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action;

Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

Calculate the root of a number