Extracting

verb

Word Frequency: 1.9

Definitions

1.verbTo 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"

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

"to extract an essential oil from a plant"

3.verbTo take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

4.verbTo select parts of a whole

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

5.verbTo determine (a root of a number).

"Please extract the cube root of 27."

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