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Noun extract has 2 senses
- infusion, extract - a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
--1 is a kind of solution
--1 has particulars: beef tea, Bovril; black catechu, catechu; pancreatin
- excerpt, extract, selection - a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
--2 is a kind of passage
--2 has particulars: | | Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah; analects, analecta; clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting; cut, track; quotation, quote, citation |
Verb extract has 8 senses
- extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out - draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
--1 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- extract - get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions"
--2 is one way to obtain
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- educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out - deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
--3 is one way to interpret, construe, see
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- distill, extract, distil - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
--4 is one way to make, create
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- extract - separate (a metal) from an ore
--5 is one way to separate
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- press out, express, extract - obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
--6 is one way to get, acquire
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- excerpt, extract, take out - take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
--7 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
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- extract - calculate the root of a number
--8 is one way to calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
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