extract

Meanings

Something that is extracted or drawn out.
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
Ancestry; descent.
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
To select parts of a whole
To determine (a root of a number).

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