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Extract

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounSomething that is extracted or drawn out.
2.NounA 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."
3.NounA decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
"vanilla extract; extract of beef; extract of dandelion"
4.NounAny 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.NounA solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
6.NounA peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
7.NounAncestry; descent.
8.Noun(Can we verify this sense?) A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
9.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"
10.VerbTo withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
"to extract an essential oil from a plant"
11.VerbTo pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
"extract a passage from a text.; extract a line from a song.; extract a clip from a video; extract the drum parts from an mp3."
12.VerbTo select parts of a whole
"We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."
13.VerbTo determine (a root of a number).
"Please extract the cube root of 27."
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