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extract   (TTS Sound)

The noun extract has 2 senses

• infusion, extract -- (a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water))


• excerpt, excerption, extract, selection -- (a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings")

The verb extract has 8 senses

• extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out -- (remove, 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")


• extract -- (get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions")


• educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out -- (deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant")


• distill, extract, distil -- (extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound")


• extract -- (separate (a metal) from an ore)


• press out, express, extract -- (obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it")


• excerpt, extract, take out -- (take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy)


• extract -- (calculate the root of a number)