Extract vs. Extraction

Extractnoun

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

Extractionnoun

An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

Extractnoun

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.’;

Extractionnoun

A person's origin or ancestry.

Extractnoun

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’;

Extractionnoun

Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.

Extractnoun

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.’;

Extractionnoun

(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.

Extractnoun

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

Extractionnoun

(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Extractnoun

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

Extractionnoun

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

Extractnoun

Ancestry; descent.

Extractionnoun

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

Extractnoun

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

Extractionnoun

That which is extracted; extract; essence.

‘They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.’;

Extractverb

(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’;

Extractionnoun

the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

Extractverb

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

‘to extract an essential oil from a plant’;

Extractionnoun

properties attributable to your ancestry;

‘he comes from good origins’;

Extractverb

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

Extractionnoun

the act of pulling out (as a tooth);

‘the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction’;

Extractverb

(transitive) To select parts of a whole

‘We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.’;

Extractverb

To determine (a root of a number).

‘Please extract the cube root of 27.’;

Extractverb

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.’;

Extractverb

To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.

‘Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.’;

Extractverb

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.’;

Extractnoun

That which is extracted or drawn out.

Extractnoun

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

Extractnoun

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.

Extractnoun

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.

Extractnoun

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

Extractnoun

Extraction; descent.

Extractnoun

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

Extractnoun

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

Extractnoun

a passage selected from a larger work;

‘he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings’;

Extractverb

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’;

Extractverb

get despite difficulties or obstacles;

‘I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions’;

Extractverb

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

‘We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant’;

Extractverb

extract by the process of distillation;

‘distill the essence of this compound’;

Extractverb

separate (a metal) from an ore

Extractverb

obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action;

‘Italians express coffee rather than filter it’;

Extractverb

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

Extractverb

calculate the root of a number

Extractverb

remove or take out, especially by effort or force

‘the fossils are extracted from the chalk’;

Extractverb

obtain (a substance or resource) from something by a special method

‘lead was extracted from the copper’;

Extractverb

obtain (something such as money or information) from someone unwilling to give it

‘I won't let you go without trying to extract a promise from you’;

Extractverb

select (a passage from a text, film, or piece of music) for quotation, performance, or reproduction

‘the table is extracted from the report’;

Extractverb

derive (an idea) from a body of information

‘there are few attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the disciplines’;

Extractverb

calculate (a root of a number)

‘early computers had an instruction to extract a square root’;

Extractnoun

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

‘an extract from a historical film’;

Extractnoun

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

‘natural plant extracts’; ‘a shampoo with extract of camomile’;

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.