Decompress vs. Extract — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Decompress and Extract
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Decompress
Relieve or reduce the pressure on (something).
Extract
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.
Decompress
Calm down and relax
Michael sits for a minute to decompress before walking home
Extract
Remove or take out, especially by effort or force
The fossils are extracted from the chalk
Decompress
To relieve of pressure or compression.
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Extract
Calculate (a root of a number)
Early computers had an instruction to extract a square root
Decompress
To bring (a person exposed to conditions of increased pressure) gradually back to normal atmospheric pressure.
Extract
A short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music
An extract from a historical film
Decompress
To adjust to normal atmospheric conditions after being exposed to increased pressure.
Extract
A preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form
Natural plant extracts
A shampoo with extract of camomile
Decompress
(Informal) To relax
Decompressed after 12 hours of driving.
Extract
To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort
Extract a wisdom tooth.
Used tweezers to extract the splinter.
Decompress
(transitive) To relieve the pressure or compression on something.
Extract
To obtain despite resistance
Extract a promise.
Decompress
(transitive) To bring someone (such as a diver) back to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
Extract
To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action, as by pressure, distillation, or evaporation.
Decompress
To restore (compressed data) to its original form.
Extract
To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt.
Decompress
(intransitive) To adjust to normal atmospheric pressure after being exposed to high pressure.
Extract
To derive or obtain (information, for example) from a source.
Decompress
To relax.
Extract
To deduce (a principle or doctrine); construe (a meaning).
Decompress
To undergo the process of decompression.
Extract
To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.
Decompress
To subject to the process of decompression.
Extract
(Mathematics) To determine or calculate (the root of a number).
Decompress
Restore to its uncompressed form;
Decompress data
Extract
A passage from a literary work; an excerpt.
Decompress
Decrease the pressure of;
Depressurize the cabin in the air plane
Extract
A concentrated preparation of the essential constituents of a food, flavoring, or other substance; a concentrate
Maple extract.
Decompress
Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease;
He relaxed in the hot tub
Let's all relax after a hard day's work
Extract
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Extract
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
Extract
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
Extract of beef
Extract of dandelion
Vanilla extract
Extract
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
Quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
Extract
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
Extract
(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
Extract
Ancestry; descent.
Extract
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Extract
(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
Extract
(transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
To extract an essential oil from a plant
Extract
(transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Extract
(transitive) To select parts of a whole
We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
Extract
To determine (a root of a number).
Please extract the cube root of 27.
Extract
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 beeSits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Extract
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.
Extract
That which is extracted or drawn out.
Extract
A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
Extract
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.
Extract
A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; - called also the extractive principle.
Extract
Extraction; descent.
Extract
A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Extract
A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
Extract
A passage selected from a larger work;
He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
Extract
Draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense;
Pull weeds
Extract a bad tooth
Take out a splinter
Extract information from the telegram
Extract
Get despite difficulties or obstacles;
I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions
Extract
Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant
Extract
Extract by the process of distillation;
Distill the essence of this compound
Extract
Separate (a metal) from an ore
Extract
Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action;
Italians express coffee rather than filter it
Extract
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Extract
Calculate the root of a number
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