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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
extract From the web:
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mulct
English
Etymology
From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin multa (“penalty, fine”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?lkt/
- Rhymes: -?lkt
Noun
mulct (plural mulcts)
- (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
- juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.
- 1846, Thomas Babington Macauley, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume 3, Porter & Coates, Chapter XI:
- The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.
- 1846, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, 10th ed., Volume I, page xxxvi, note
- […] by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
Translations
Verb
mulct (third-person singular simple present mulcts, present participle mulcting, simple past and past participle mulcted)
- To impose such a fine or penalty.
- To swindle (someone) out of money.
Translations
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