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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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elix
English
Verb
elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
- c. 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida
- O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.
- c. 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida
Related terms
- elixir
References
- elix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Lexi, ilex
Latin
Etymology
From ?- +? lax.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?e?.liks/, [?e?l?ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?e.liks/, [???liks]
Noun
?lix f (genitive ?licis); third declension
- drainage ditch
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- elix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- elix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- elix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
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