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A passage selected from a larger work
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extract
Alternative clues for the word extract
- Draw out from old region
- Essence (such as vanilla)
- Vanilla ___
- Pull out (tooth)
- What might be wide court passage
- Passage from old pamphlet
- Take out old religious pamphlet
- Derive (from) ... or a two-part hint for understanding 17-, 33-, 42- and 58-Across
- Introduction of Cavani in added time should make you concentrate
Word definitions for extract in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) [syn: infusion ] a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: excerpt , selection ]
Usage examples of extract.
For all wounds, bruises, sprains, bee-stings, insect and snake-bites, frost-bites, chilblains, caked breast, swollen glands, rheumatism, and, in short, for any and all ailments, whether afflicting man or beast, requiring a direct external application, either to allay inflammation or soothe pain, the Extract of Smart-weed cannot be excelled.
The simple truth evoked was, that while a committee of the house supposed that they were possessed of full and complete reports, they were supplied with only curt and crude extracts, calculated to place matters in the ministerial light, but not really affording the committee the opinions of those whose views they purported to be.
GENTLEMEN:--On the 15th day of this month, as I remember, a printed paper manuscript, with a few manuscript interlineations, called a protest, with your names appended thereto, and accompanied by another printed paper, purporting to be a proclamation by Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee, and also a manuscript paper, purporting to be extracts from the Code of Tennessee, were laid before me.
Injected subcutaneously these animal extracts are immediately assimilated and we are often able to stop, at once, the progress of disease and turn the tide towards recovery.
Willingly assenting to this, Heliobas read the extract over again, Alwyn taking down the words from his dictation.
Sitting by the piano equipped with his sketching pad, extracting mana from soft lead, he followed the bar exercises with swift eyes and was soon able to transfer the various positions to paper more pleasingly than the boys and girls, some of them members of the child ballet at the Stadttheater, could perform them at the bar.
Take up with a few drops of dilute hydrochloric acid, add baric hydrate in excess, evaporate, and extract with water.
Cooper mentions the symptoms of poisoning following the application of extract of belladonna to the scrotum.
After breakfast, Arthur volunteered to take Lady Bellamy round the garden, with the ulterior object of extracting some more information about Angela.
Then the gummy organic residue is dissolved in the combined benzene extracts.
The second principle which underlies all the most recent methods for extracting the grease from the wool, consists in treating the fibre with some solvent like benzol, carbon bisulphide, petroleum spirit, carbon tetrachloride, etc.
Vivian was probably sorry as well, for she had a slightly confused and preoccupied look--a look from which, even in the midst of his chagrin, Bernard extracted some entertainment.
An extract made from the crushed berries by boiling them down to a thick liquor, is, when spread on linen, a capital stimulating plaster for neuralgic or rheumatic parts.
It was rare and valuable in a pure state only because we had not as yet perfected a way of extracting beryllium cheaply.
When the last is present it is determined by fusing with bisulphate of potash and extracting with cold water.