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Extract can refer to removing something by pulling or cutting or to getting information from someone who does not want to give it. While both words refer to getting something they are used in different ways.
EXTRACT definition: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.
Extract definition: to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force. See examples of EXTRACT used in a sentence.
Some common synonyms of extract are educe, elicit, evoke, and extort. While all these words mean "to draw out something hidden, latent, or reserved," extract implies the use of force or pressure in obtaining answers or information.
extract something (from somebody/something) to obtain information, money, etc., often by taking it from somebody who is unwilling to give it. Journalists managed to extract all kinds of information about her private life.
When you extract something, you remove it from a larger whole. You can extract a passage from a book, or a liquid essence from a vanilla bean—vanilla extract.
EXTRACT meaning: 1 : to remove (something) by pulling it out or cutting it out; 2 : to get (information, a response, etc.) from someone who does not want to give it
EXTRACT meaning: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.
Definition of extract noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to derive (satisfaction, comfort, or the like), usu. from some event or circumstance. She had to admit that she extracted some pleasure from her seeing her sister get in trouble. in mathematics, to calculate (the root of a number). a condensation and concentration of a substance.
