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decoction
English
Etymology
From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decocti?, from decoqu? (“I boil down”), from de- + coqu? (“I cook”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??k?k??n/
Noun
decoction (countable and uncountable, plural decoctions)
- An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
- The process of boiling something down in this way.
- 1804, The Medical and Physical Journal (page 563)
- Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.
- 1804, The Medical and Physical Journal (page 563)
Related terms
- decoct
Translations
Old French
Noun
decoction f (oblique plural decoctions, nominative singular decoction, nominative plural decoctions)
- Alternative form of decoccion
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extract
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrah?.
Pronunciation
- (noun): enPR: ?ks'tr?kt, IPA(key): /??kst?ækt/
- (verb): enPR: ?kstr?kt', IPA(key): /?ks?t?ækt/, IPA(key): /?ks?t?ækt/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Noun
extract (plural extracts)
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
- I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- extract of beef
- extract of dandelion
- vanilla extract
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Synonyms
- (that which is extracted): extraction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
- (principle): extractive principle
- (ancestry, descent): origin, extraction
Derived terms
- yeast extract
Translations
See also
- tincture
Verb
extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past extracted, past participle extracted or (archaic) extraught)
- (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
- (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
- to extract an essential oil from a plant
- (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4
- I have thought it proper to extract out of that pamphlet a few of those notorious falsehoods.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4
- (transitive) To select parts of a whole
- We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
Synonyms
- (to draw out): outdraw
- (to take by selection): sunder out
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin extractum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?tr?kt/
- Hyphenation: ex?tract
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
extract n (plural extracten)
- extract, decoction
- Synonyms: aftreksel, uittreksel
Derived terms
- plantenextract
- thee-extract
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: ekstrak
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin extractus
Noun
extract n (plural extracte)
- extract
Declension
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