Extract vs. Synopsis — 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.

A brief summary or general survey of something

Remove or take out, especially by effort or force

A brief outline or general view, as of a subject or written work; an abstract or a summary.

Calculate (a root of a number)

(authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.

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

A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.

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

(Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

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

A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.

To obtain despite resistance

A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory

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

To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt.

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

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

To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.

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

A passage from a literary work; an excerpt.

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

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