Extract forms a kind of mirror image of abstract: more common as a verb, but also used as a noun and adjective. The adjective, meaning “derived or descended,” is now obsolete, as is a sense of the noun …

EXTRACT definition: to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force. See examples of extract used in a sentence.

EXTRACT definition: 1. to remove or take out something: 2. to make someone give you something when they do not want…. Learn more.

10. a solid, viscid, or liquid substance containing the essence or active substance of a food, plant, or drug in concentrated form: beef extract; vanilla extract.

To extract is to draw forth something as by pulling, importuning, or the like: to extract a confession by torture. To exact is to impose a penalty, or to obtain by force or authority, something to which one …

An extract is a solution of plant or animal tissue containing the active ingredient.

Definition of extract verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.