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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Extract \Ex*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extracted}; p. pr & vb n. {Extracting}.] [L. extractus p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See {Trace}, and cf {Estreat}.] 1. 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. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. --Milton. 2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as to extract an essence. Cf {Abstract}, v. t., 6. Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious. 3. To take by selection; to choose out to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. --Swift. {To extract the root} (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
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