- to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force: to extract a tooth.
- to deduce (a doctrine, principle, interpretation, etc.): He extracted a completely personal meaning from what was said.
- to derive or obtain (pleasure, comfort, etc.) from a particular source: He extracted satisfaction from the success of his sons.
- to take or copy out (matter), as from a book.
- to make excerpts from (a book, pamphlet, etc.).
- to extort (information, money, etc.): to extract a secret from someone.
- to separate or obtain (a juice, ingredient, etc.) from a mixture by pressure, distillation, treatment with solvents, or the like.
- Mathematics.
- to determine (the root of a quantity that has a single root).
- to determine (a root of a quantity that has multiple roots).
- something extracted.
- a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; excerpt; quotation.
- a solution or preparation containing the active principles of a drug, plant juice, or the like; concentrated solution: vanilla extract.
- a solid, viscid, or liquid substance extracted from a plant, drug, or the like, containing its essence in concentrated form: beef extract.
- to withdraw, pull out, or uproot by force
- to remove or separate
- to derive (pleasure, information, etc) from some source or situation
- to deduce or develop (a doctrine, policy, etc)
- to extort (money, etc)
- to obtain (a substance) from a mixture or material by a chemical or physical process, such as digestion, distillation, the action of a solvent, or mechanical separation
- to cut out or copy out (an article, passage, quotation, etc) from a publication
- to determine the value of (the root of a number)
- something extracted, such as a part or passage from a book, speech, etc
- a preparation containing the active principle or concentrated essence of a material
- a solution of plant or animal tissue containing the active principle
