Extract is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTRACT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to draw out by force
• remove or take out, especially by effort or force
• obtain (a substance or resource) from something by a special method
• obtain (something such as money or information) from someone unwilling to give it
• select (a passage from a text, film, or piece of music) for quotation, performance, or reproduction
• derive (an idea) from a body of information
• calculate (a root of a number)
• pull out by force
• To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
• To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
• To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
• get despite difficulties or obstacles
• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
• extract by the process of distillation
• separate (a metal) from an ore
• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
• calculate the root of a number
NOUN:
• a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music
• a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form
• That which is extracted or drawn out.
• A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
• A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, 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. See Abstract, n., 4.
• A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
• Extraction; descent.
• A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
• a passage selected from a larger work
• something extracted, such as a passage from a book etc
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pull or draw out

Words related to EXTRACT

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Words that contain EXTRACT

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How to use EXTRACT in a sentence

• The following extract from his journal will show the trials to which Mr.
• This may be illustrated by an extract from a letter of Mr.
• We quote the remarks of Captain McClelland on this point, and also make a short extract from the recently published Journal of the siege of Sebastopol by General Niel.
• Another extract from the diary of this lady will be found to describe, in graphic terms, the visit to the prison recorded in the Corporation minutes.
• You will perhaps be pleased to see that my conceptions of his character were correct, though I regret not having met with this extract before.
• I only made this extract to show how much lower we are held, and how much more cruel we are treated by the Americans, than were the children of Jacob, by the Egyptians.
• The following is a brief extract from the eulogy of the Rev.
• Leaves of different kinds of trees were taken, dried and soaked in a weak solution of tobacco extract, and when dry these leaves answered the purpose of tobacco.
• Gaskell, it will be remembered, makes but one extract from this correspondence, which was handed to her by Mr.
• He looked at her thoughtfully for a few seconds, then resumed his reading of the Mad Philosopher, out of whose essays he seemed to extract a great deal of quiet amusement.
• It was commonly impossible for anybody to extract it.
• The only quotation that carries conviction is an extract from a letter to his mother from St.
• The other birds, most common, will be found in an extract from the game book, given in a future page.
• Greene then read the following extract from the speech of Mr.
• Dana, who was thoroughly in sympathy with Field in all such enterprises, and on the following Sunday it appeared in the New York Sun as an extract from a London paper.
• The incumbent, in order to prepare him for Confirmation, set him to work to extract the Thirty-nine Articles out of the four Gospels.
• An extract from that part of the dispatch of the minister of the United States at Lima which accompanied the copy referred to, and which relates to it, is also transmitted.
• Different qualities of extract and mode of obtaining it.
• During the drying the leaves are frequently made into balls and rolled in the flat baskets, in order to extract the juice.
• Others commend their Extract of the Soul of the Heathen Gods.
• From the same paper, of January 30th, 1871, we extract an account of the funeral obsequies which took place on Saturday, January 28th.

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