Extract

English Meaning

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.

1. To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort: extract a wisdom tooth; used tweezers to extract the splinter.
2. To obtain despite resistance: extract a promise.
3. To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action, as by pressure, distillation, or evaporation.
4. To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt.
5. To derive or obtain (information, for example) from a source.
6. To deduce (a principle or doctrine); construe (a meaning).
7. To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.
8. Mathematics To determine or calculate (the root of a number).
9. Something extracted, especially:
10. A passage from a literary work; an excerpt.
11. A concentrated preparation of the essential constituents of a food, flavoring, or other substance; a concentrate: maple extract.