• (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

   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; past extracted, 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 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

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

   to extract an essential oil from a plant

3. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 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.

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

• French: extraire
• German: entnehmen
• Italian: cavare
• Portuguese: extrair
• Russian: извлека́ть
• Spanish: extraer, sacar

• French: extraire
• German: entziehen