extract

Forms

1.A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
- I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
2.A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
3.Something that is extracted or drawn out.
4.Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

1.To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
- There is, in fact, growing recognition in the Department that giving free rein to the open access operators will extract revenue from Great British Railways.
2.To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
3.To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
- I have thought it proper to extract out of that pamphlet a few of those notorious falsehoods.
- As his work is probably not easily accessible to many of my readers, I shall perhaps consult their convenience by extracting his description entire.
4.To select parts of a whole
- We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

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Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō

From ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).