Usually means: Remove substance from another substance.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. extract: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extract: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extract: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extract, extract: Wordnik
  7. extract: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extract: Wiktionary
  9. extract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extract: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extract: Dictionary.com
  13. extract (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extract: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extract (film), Extract: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extract: Rhymezone
  19. Extract: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extract: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. extract: Free Dictionary
  22. extract: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. extract: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extract: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. extract: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extract: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. extract: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. extract: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extract: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extract, Extract: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See extractability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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