Meaning

• Something that is extracted or drawn out.

• A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

  "I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."

• A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

  "extract of beef"

• Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

  "quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."

• 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.

Meaning

• To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

  "to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"

• To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

  "to extract an essential oil from a plant"

• To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

• To select parts of a whole

  "We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."

• To determine (a root of a number).

  "Please extract the cube root of 27."