Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#EXTRACTCategory:English terms derived from Latin#EXTRACT extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) +‎ trahō (“to drag”).

Pronunciation

• (noun): enPR: ĕk'străkt, IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹækt/Category:English 2-syllable words#EXTRACTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#EXTRACT

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• (verb): enPR: ĭkstrăkt', IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹækt/Category:English 2-syllable words#EXTRACTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#EXTRACT, IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstɹækt/Category:English 2-syllable words#EXTRACTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#EXTRACT

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• Rhymes: -æktCategory:Rhymes:English/ækt#EXTRACTCategory:Rhymes:English/ækt/2 syllables#EXTRACT

Noun

extract (plural extracts)Category:English lemmas#EXTRACTCategory:English nouns#EXTRACTCategory:English countable nouns#EXTRACTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with entries#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#EXTRACT

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).

   I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

   vanilla extractCategory:English terms with collocations#EXTRACT

   extract of beefCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   extract of dandelionCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

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.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
7. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#EXTRACT) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
8. Ancestry; descent.
9. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)Category:Requests for verification in English entries#EXTRACT A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Verb

extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past extracted, past participle extracted or (archaic) extraught)Category:English lemmas#EXTRACTCategory:English verbs#EXTRACTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with entries#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#EXTRACT

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#EXTRACT) 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 fingerCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   • 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.

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   • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     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).

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   • 2025 March 5, Christian Wolmar, “GBR: just how clear are the government's objectives?”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 41:

     There is, in fact, growing recognition in the Department that giving free rein to the open access operators will extract revenue from Great British Railways.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#EXTRACT) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

   to extract an essential oil from a plantCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract 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.

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3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#EXTRACT) To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of

   extract a passage from a text.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   extract a line from a song.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   extract a clip from a videoCategory:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   extract the drum parts from an mp3.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   • 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.

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   • 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 332:

     As his work is probably not easily accessible to many of my readers, I shall perhaps consult their convenience by extracting his description entire.

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4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#EXTRACT) To select parts of a whole

   We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#EXTRACT, arithmeticCategory:en:Arithmetic#EXTRACT) To determine (a root of a number).

   Please extract the cube root of 27.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXTRACT

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

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

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Etymology

From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#EXTRACTCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#EXTRACT extract, from LatinCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#EXTRACT extractum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstrɑkt/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#EXTRACT

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• Hyphenation: ex‧tract
• Rhymes: -ɑktCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɑkt#EXTRACT

Noun

extract n (plural extracten, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#EXTRACTCategory:Dutch nouns#EXTRACTCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#EXTRACTCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#EXTRACTCategory:Dutch neuter nouns#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with entries#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#EXTRACT

1. extract, decoction

   Synonym: aftreksel

2. (obsoleteCategory:Dutch terms with obsolete senses#EXTRACT) abridgement of a text

   Synonym: uittreksel

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Latin#EXTRACTCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#EXTRACT extractus.

Noun

extract n (plural extracte)Category:Romanian lemmas#EXTRACTCategory:Romanian nouns#EXTRACTCategory:Romanian countable nouns#EXTRACTCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#EXTRACTCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with entries#EXTRACTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#EXTRACT

1. extract