extract

extract is a 7-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
2. transitive verb. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
3. transitive verb. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
4. noun. That which is extracted or drawn out.
5. noun. A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
6. noun. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
7. noun. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
8. noun. A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
9. noun. Extraction; descent.
10. noun. A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
11. noun. a passage selected from a larger work

    "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

    Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection

12. noun. a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

    Synonyms: infusion

13. verb. extract by the process of distillation

    "distill the essence of this compound"

    Synonyms: distil, distill

14. verb. calculate the root of a number
15. verb. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

    Synonyms: excerpt

16. verb. remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

    "pull weeds"

    "extract a bad tooth"

    Synonyms: pull

17. verb. obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

    "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"

    Synonyms: express

18. verb. separate (a metal) from an ore
19. verb. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

    "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

    Synonyms: educe, elicit, evoke

20. verb. get despite difficulties or obstacles

    "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"

Synonyms

excerpt, excerption, selection, infusion, distil, distill, pull, express, educe, elicit, evoke

Common word forms

extracts, extracted, extracting, extractable

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