The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extract \Ex*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extracting.] [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Estreat.]
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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.
The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
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To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.
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To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
--Swift.To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
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vb. (present participle of extract English)
Usage examples of "extracting".
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.
After breakfast, Arthur volunteered to take Lady Bellamy round the garden, with the ulterior object of extracting some more information about Angela.
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.
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.
Then he noted their smoothness, the absence of tiny cilia or branchlets capable of extracting water and nutrients from the soil.
The shopkeeper drops a shoulder toward Brede, who stands before a barrel from which he is extracting small pouches of something.
The process for extracting the essence of marihuana is a simple one, but it requires the utmost care.
Hecate, the ones who kill because they have to in order to live, who toy with their prey, extracting the scent of fear that was so intoxicating, and giving the prey a sportsmanlike chance to escape, even those werewolves make the actual moment of death fast and painless.
On the day of their arrival he was sitting by the stream, and Jim was extracting the honey from the nest of a stingless bee which is to be found in the desert, on the top of a bank immediately above him.
Peter let go of one side of the cab and pulled out his notecase, extracting a tenner which he stuck in his breast pocket.
She insisted the girls take tea with her but, beyond extracting the information that Kit was still unbetrothed, made no effort to learn more of her recent past.
Slowly Conway adjusted the unscrambler, pushing it in deeper and extracting it again until it matched exactly a scrambler, similar in nature but opposite in function, at the other end of the signal.
When Agassiz came into the laboratory, I was extracting and preserving the embryos, being interested in embryology.
I had not much trouble in extracting a promise from Madame Mazzoli and the two counts to sup with me every night, but the Chevalier de Raiberti would only promise to come whenever he could.