Noun extract has 2 senses
  1. 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
    Derived form: verb extract6
  2. 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
    Derived form: verb extract7
,Verb extract has 8 senses
  1. 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
    Derived forms: noun extraction3, noun extractor1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  2. extract - get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions"
    --2 is one way to
    obtain
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. 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
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. distill, extract, distil - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
    --4 is one way to make, create
    Derived form: noun extraction1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. extract - separate (a metal) from an ore
    --5 is one way to
    separate
    Derived form: noun extraction1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  6. 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
    Derived form: noun extract1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  7. 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
    Derived form: noun extract2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  8. extract - calculate the root of a number
    --8 is one way to
    calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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