Word: extract
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.
You can find a list of possible crossword clues for EXTRACT below.
Crossword Answers