A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to acitation; aquotation).
I used anextract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
Adecoction, solution, orinfusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
vanillaextract
extract of beef
extract of dandelion
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
quinine is the most importantextract of Peruvian bark.
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from anabstract).
(obsolete) A peculiarprinciple (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
(Can weverify(+) this sense?) A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
toextract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
1667,John Milton, “Book V”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
The bee / Sits on the bloomextracting liquid sweet.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago,extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
2025 March 5, Christian Wolmar, “GBR: just how clear are the government's objectives?”, inRAIL, number1030, page41:
There is, in fact, growing recognition in the Department that giving free rein to the open access operators willextract revenue from Great British Railways.
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people toextract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“extract”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
