extracts
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Definitions ofextracts
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
Example: "I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
Example: "extract of beef"
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
Example: "quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
- To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
Example: "to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"
- To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
Example: "to extract an essential oil from a plant"
- To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- To select parts of a whole
Example: "We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."
- To determine (a root of a number).
Example: "Please extract the cube root of 27."
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