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extract

noun
  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.

    "I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."

  3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

    "extract of beef"

Synonymsextraction, origin, extractive principle, extraction
verb
  1. To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

    "to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"

  2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

    "to extract an essential oil from a plant"

  3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

Synonymsoutdraw, sunder out

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