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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
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ex=tract

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun extract has 2 senses

Verb extract has 8 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

extractv. t. [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Estreat.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "The bee
    Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.  [1913 Webster]
    "Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.  [1913 Webster]
    "I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods."  [1913 Webster]
To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
extractn. 
  •  That which is extracted or drawn out.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Extraction; descent.  South.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.  Tomlins.  [1913 Webster]
Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

extract, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 remove or take out, esp. by effort or force (anything firmly rooted).
2 obtain (money, an admission, etc.) with difficulty or against a person's will.
3 obtain (a natural resource) from the earth.
4 select or reproduce for quotation or performance (a passage of writing, music, etc.).
5 obtain (juice etc.) by suction, pressure, distillation, etc.
6 derive (pleasure etc.).
7 Math. find (the root of a number).
8 archaic deduce (a principle etc.).
--n.
1 a short passage taken from a book, piece of music, etc.; an excerpt.
2 a preparation containing the active principle of a substance in concentrated form (malt extract).

Derivative
extractable adj. extractability n.
Etymology
L extrahere extract- (as EX-(1), trahere draw)

THESAURUS

extract

abate, abrade, abridge, abstract, ambergris, ambrosia, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, artifact, attar, attar of roses, avulse, balm, balm of Gilead, balsam, bate, bay oil, bergamot oil, bolt, brainchild, carve, champaca oil, child, chisel, choose, choose out, citation, cite, civet, clarify, clear, clipping, coinage, collect, composition, concentrate, concentration, conclude, concoction, condense, convert, copy, creation, creature, crowning achievement, cull, cultivate, curtail, cut out, cutting, decide between, decoction, decrassify, decrease, deduce, deduct, deliver, depreciate, depurate, deracinate, derive, derogate, detract, develop, dig out, dig up, diminish, disentangle, disparage, distill, distillate, distillation, drain, draw, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, draw forth, draw out, dredge, dredge up, eat away, edulcorate, effect, eke out, elicit, elixir, elute, end product, eradicate, erode, essence, essential oil, essentialize, evince, evoke, evolve, evulse, excavate, excerpt, excerption, excise, exsect, extort, extraction, extricate, fetch, file away, filter, filtrate, find, fixative, force out, free, fruit, garner, gather, get, get out, glean, gouge out, grow, grub up, handiwork, handpick, harvest, heliotrope, impair, induce, infer, infusion, invention, issue, jasmine oil, lavender oil, leach, lessen, liberate, lixiviate, machine, make a selection, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, milk, mill, mine, mintage, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, new mintage, obtain, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, parfum, passage, percolate, perfume, perfumery, pick, pick out, pick up, pluck out, pluck up, process, product, production, pry, pull, pull out, pull up, pump, purification, purify, quarry, quintessence, quotation, quote, raise, rake out, ransom, rear, reason, reason that, recover, rectify, redeem, reduce, refine, refinement, release, remove, rescue, result, retrench, retrieve, rip out, root out, root up, rose oil, rub away, salvage, save, scent, scratch, screen, select, selected passage, selection, separate, set free, shorten, sieve, sift, single out, smelt, spirit, spiritualize, squeeze, strain, subduct, sublimate, sublime, subtract, take as proved, take away, take from, take out, tear, tear out, thin, thin out, try, unearth, unravel, uproot, volatile oil, wear away, weed, weed out, winkle out, winnow, withdraw, work, worm out, wrench, wrest, wrest out, wring, yank

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Extraction

VB extract, draw, take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out, wring from, wrench, extort, root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out, eradicate, pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots, averruncate, unroot, uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge, remove, educe, elicit, evolve, extricate, eliminate, eviscerate, express, squeeze out, press out.

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