Extract forms a kind of mirror image of abstract: more common as a verb, but also used as a noun and adjective. The adjective, meaning “derived or descended,” is now obsolete, as is a sense of the noun …

EXTRACT definition: to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force. See examples of extract used in a sentence.

EXTRACT definition: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.

10. a solid, viscid, or liquid substance containing the essence or active substance of a food, plant, or drug in concentrated form: beef extract; vanilla extract.

Extract: Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as …

An extract (essence) is a substance made by extracting a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol, oil or water. Extracts may be sold as tinctures or absolutes or dried and powdered.

An extract from a book or piece of writing is a small part of it that is printed or published separately.

When you extract something, you remove it from a larger whole. You can extract a passage from a book, or a liquid essence from a vanilla bean—vanilla extract.

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Definition of extract noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable] extract (from something) a short passage from a book, piece of music, etc. that gives you an idea of what the …