Definitions from Wiktionary (extract)

▸ noun:  Something that is extracted or drawn out.
▸ noun:  A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
▸ noun:  A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
▸ noun:  Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
▸ noun:  A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
▸ noun:  Ancestry; descent.
▸ noun:  A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To select parts of a whole
▸ verb:  (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
▸ Also see extract

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