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extract

English

  1. 🔊 a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
  2. 🔊 a passage selected from a larger work
    “he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings”
  3. 🔊 calculate the root of a number
  4. 🔊 remove, usually with some force or effort
    “pull weeds”
  5. 🔊 separate (a metal) from an ore
  6. 🔊 get despite difficulties or obstacles
    “I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions”
  7. 🔊 extract by the process of distillation
    “distill the essence of this compound”
  8. 🔊 take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
  9. 🔊 obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
    “Italians express coffee rather than filter it”
  10. 🔊 deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
    “We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 extraer to extract
  2. 🔊 mulger to extract
  3. 🔊 pallar to extract

Similar words

excerpt excerption selection infusion distill distil excerpt take out pull out pull pull up take out draw out rip out tear out press out express educe evoke elicit draw out abate abrade abridge