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- DictionaryEx·tract
verb
- 1. remove or take out, especially by effort or force: "the decayed tooth will have to be extracted"
noun
- 1. a short passage taken from a piece of writing, music, or film: "an extract from a historical film"
- 2. a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form: "vanilla extract"
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: to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force. See examples of EXTRACT used in a sentence.
EXTRACT definition: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.
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.
1. To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort: extract a wisdom tooth; used tweezers to extract the splinter. 2. To obtain despite resistance: extract a promise. 3. To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action, as by pressure, distillation, or evaporation. 4. To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt. 5.
EXTRACT meaning: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.
To extract is to draw forth something as by pulling, importuning, or the like: to extract a confession by torture. To exact is to impose a penalty, or to obtain by force or authority, something to which one lays claim: to exact payment.
To obtain (a substance, esp. an essence or concentrate) by pressing, distilling, using a solvent, etc. To extract juice from fruit. To obtain as if by drawing out; deduce (a principle), derive or elicit (information, pleasure, etc.), or the like. Something extracted.
Definition of extract noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
EXTRACT definition: 1. to take something out, especially using force: 2. to get the money, information, etc that you…. Learn more.
