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.
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
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 drawing 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 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.
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.
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Extract Quotations
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Arthur Helps
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
Arthur Eddington
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
Felix Frankfurter
Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.
Sally Schneider
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
Wilhelm Dilthey
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
Tim O'Reilly
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
Toni Cade Bambara
Extract Translations
extract in Dutch is afleiden
extract in French is extrayons, extrais, extrayez, extraire, extraient
extract in German is gewinnen, entnehmen, Auszug {m}
extract in Italian is compendio, estrassi, estrarre
extract in Latin is extraho extraxi extractum
extract in Norwegian is trekke ut, utdrag, ekstrakt
extract in Portuguese is extrato
extract in Spanish is extractar, extracto, extraer, egreso
extract in Swedish is packa upp, utdrag
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