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Something that is extracted or drawn out.

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

Example: I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

Example: extract of beef

Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

Example: quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

Example: to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

Example: to extract an essential oil from a plant

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

To select parts of a whole

Example: We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.