Usually means: Removing specific parts from whole.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. extracting: Merriam-Webster
  2. extracting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extracting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Extracting, extracting: Wordnik
  5. extracting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extracting: Wiktionary
  7. Extracting, extracting: Dictionary.com
  8. extracting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Extracting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Extracting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. extracting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. extracting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. extracting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extracting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extracting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extracting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. extracting: Medical dictionary

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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).
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