extract
pronunciation
How to pronounce extract in British English:
UK [ˈekstrækt , ɪkˈstrækt]
How to pronounce extract in American English:
US [ˈekstrækt , ɪkˈstrækt]
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- Noun:
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- a passage selected from a larger work
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- Verb:
- draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- get despite difficulties or obstacles
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- extract by the process of distillation
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- calculate the root of a number
Word Origin
- extract (v.)
- late 15c., from Latin extractus, past participle of extrahere "draw out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + trahere "to draw" (see tract (n.1)). Related: Extracted; extracting.
- extract (n.)
- mid-15c., "digest or summary of something which has been written at greater length," from Late Latin extractum, noun use of neuter of extractus, past participle of extrahere "to draw out" (see extract (v.)). Physical sense of "that which is extracted," especially "something drawn from a substance by distillation or other chemical process" is from 1580s.
Example
- 1. They may prove easier to extract than the oil .
- 2. High oil prices have made it economical to extract .
- 3. Shi treated the leukemia cells with a commercially available grape seed extract in different doses .
- 4. Collection agencies and the record labels they represent have long struggled to extract royalties from radio stations .
- 5. How can you extract this information and sell it ?