Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- + trahō.

• (noun) enPR: ĕks'trăkt, IPA: /ˈɛkstɹækt/
• (verb) enPR: ĭkstrăkt', IPA: /ɪksˈtɹækt/, IPA: /ɛksˈtɹækt/

extract (plural extracts)

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

   vanilla extract

   extract of beef

   extract of dandelion

4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

   quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
6. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
7. Ancestry; descent.
8. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

• (that which is extracted) extraction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
• (principle) extractive principle
• (ancestry, descent) origin, extraction

• French: extrait
• German: Auszug
• Portuguese: extrato
• Russian: экстра́кт
• Spanish: extracto

• French: extrait
• German: Auszug
• Italian: estratto
• Russian: вы́держка
• Spanish: extracto, fragmento, pasaje

• French: extrait
• German: Extrakt
• Italian: estratto
• Portuguese: extrato
• Russian: экстра́кт
• Spanish: extracto

extract (extracts, present participle extracting; simple past and past participle extracted)

1. (transitive) 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

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:

     The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

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

   to extract an essential oil from a plant

3. (transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.
   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 4:

     I have thought it proper to extract out of that pamphlet a few of those notorious falsehoods.

4. (transitive) To select parts of a whole

   We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

5. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

   Please extract the cube root of 27.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC ↗:

     […] Mr. Nackybal was thoroughly examined, both in cubing and extracting, from the table that Louit had provided.

• (to draw out) outdraw
• (to take by selection) sunder out

• French: extraire
• German: entnehmen, herausziehen, ziehen (tooth)
• Italian: cavare
• Portuguese: extrair
• Russian: извлека́ть
• Spanish: extraer, sacar

• French: extraire
• German: entziehen

• German: ziehen