extract
verb
• remove or take out, especially by effort or force.
• "the fossils are extracted from the chalk"
Similar:
take out,
draw out,
bring out,
pull out,
remove,
withdraw,
pluck out,
fish out,
prize out,
extricate,
wrench out,
tear out,
uproot,
unsheathe,
produce,
free,
release,
deracinate,
• calculate (a root of a number).
• "early computers had an instruction to extract a square root"
extract
noun
• a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.
• "an extract from a historical film"
Similar:
excerpt,
passage,
abstract,
citation,
selection,
quotation,
cutting,
clipping,
snippet,
fragment,
piece,
analects,
• a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form.
• "natural plant extracts"
Similar:
decoction,
distillation,
distillate,
abstraction,
concentrate,
essence,
juice,
solution,
tincture,
elixir,
quintessence,
decocture,
apozem,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin extract- ‘drawn out’, from the verb extrahere, from ex- ‘out’ + trahere ‘draw’.
