• a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James'' philosophical writings"
• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
• Extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
• calculate the root of a number
• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
• draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "Extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "Extract information from the telegram"
• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
• separate (a metal) from an ore
• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
• get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I Extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions"

'Extract' in other languages