extract

extract

extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past and past participle extracted)

1. (transitive) 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.
2. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Compare abstract, transitive verb.
3. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
4. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

   Please extract the third root of 27.

extract (plural extracts)

1. That which is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
3. 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.
4. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.
5. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
6. Ancestry; descent.
7. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

	estrarre
	To remove, usually with some force or effort.
	To decompress, or pull out, files from a compressed form. When you extract a file, an uncompressed copy of the file is placed in the folder you specify. The original file remains in the compressed folder. Compressed files frequently have a .zip file name extension.

	cavare
	to draw out

citazione

compendio

essenza

estirpare

estrassi

estratto

infusione

ottenere

prendere

raccogliere

ricavare

ritirare

spremere

stralcio

strappare

togliere

Altri significati:

(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.

portion of a document

to determine

(transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.

Ancestry; descent.

extract (e.g. a passage from a book)

to withdraw in process

solution made by drawing out from a substance

something extracted

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 portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

extract (esp. of food, fruit, etc.)

(transitive) 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.

(transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Compare abstract, transitive verb.

(transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

export (file)

That which is extracted or drawn out.

extract (from)

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