Extract vs. Infuse — What's the Difference?

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.

To put into or introduce as if by pouring

Remove or take out, especially by effort or force

To fill or cause to be filled with something

Calculate (a root of a number)

To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles.

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

To flavor or scent (a liquid) by steeping ingredients in it

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

To introduce (a solution) into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes.

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

(transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

To obtain despite resistance

(transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).

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

(transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).

To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt.

(transitive) To instill as a quality.

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

(intransitive) To undergo infusion.

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

(transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.

To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

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

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

A passage from a literary work; an excerpt.

To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.

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

To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; - followed by with.

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.

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

To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.

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

Infusion.

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

Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions;

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

Fill, as with a certain quality;

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

Undergo the process of infusion;

Ancestry; descent.

Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse;

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

Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes;

(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