Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EXTRACT

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Definitions of EXTRACT

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
6. Ancestry; descent.
7. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
8. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
9. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
10. (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
11. (transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.
12. (transitive) To select parts of a whole
13. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

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Examples of Using EXTRACT in a Sentence

• Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste, similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston.
• As an extract, it is mainly used recreationally and often illegally for its euphoric and rewarding effects.
• A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam.
• Extractor functions were originally researched as a way to extract randomness from weakly random sources.
• " An introductory economics textbook describes econometrics as allowing economists "to sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships.
• In chemical terms, halophile refers to a Lewis acidic species that has some ability to extract halides from other chemical species.
• Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.
• The taste of Twiglets, which has been compared to that of Marmite, primarily derives from the yeast extract used in the coating.
• This imparts additional energy to the propellant, so that one can extract more work out of each kilogram of propellant, at the expense of increased power consumption and (usually) higher cost.
• An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive ions from a neutral gas by ionizing it to extract some electrons from its atoms.
• Grazing herbivores such as horses and cattles have wide flat-crowned teeth that are better adapted for grinding grass, tree bark and other tougher lignin-containing materials, and many of them evolved rumination or cecotropic behaviors to better extract nutrients from plants.
• In general, when there are multiple objects around which a sequence, function, or set accumulates, the inferior and superior limits extract the smallest and largest of them; the type of object and the measure of size is context-dependent, but the notion of extreme limits is invariant.
• It was a precursor of meat extract and bouillon cubes, and of industrially dehydrated and instant food.
• Espresso machines use pressure to extract a highly concentrated coffee with a complex flavor profile in a short time, usually 25–30 seconds.
• The receiver deciphers the text by performing the inverse substitution process to extract the original message.
• The plant extract contains some 150 identified phytochemicals, including catechins, proanthocyanins, and chalcone-flavan-3-ol dimers, called gambiriins.
• Thus, machines that extract energy from finite sources cannot operate indefinitely because they are driven by the energy stored in the source, which will eventually be exhausted.
• Common sugar substitutes include aspartame, monk fruit extract, saccharin, sucralose, stevia, acesulfame potassium (ace-K), and cyclamate.
• Foods that have a strong umami flavor include meats, shellfish, fish (including fish sauce and preserved fish such as Maldives fish, katsuobushi, sardines, and anchovies), dashi, tomatoes, mushrooms, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, meat extract, yeast extract, kimchi, cheeses, and soy sauce.
• For example, in a modem, which is a contraction of the terms modulator/demodulator, a demodulator is used to extract a serial digital data stream from a carrier signal which is used to carry it through a telephone line, coaxial cable, or optical fiber.

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