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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:
- what extract means
- what extracts oil
- what extracts blackheads
- what extracts are clear
- what extracts can i make
- what extract comes from beaver
- what extract has the most alcohol
- what extracts are good for the skin
uproot
English
Etymology
From up- +? root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??u?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Verb
uproot (third-person singular simple present uproots, present participle uprooting, simple past and past participle uprooted) (transitive)
- To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate.
- (by extension) To remove from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- (figuratively) To destroy utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- Synonym: benothing
Synonyms
- (to root up): deracinate, disroot
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Derived terms
- uprootal
- uprooted
- uprooting
Translations
Anagrams
- root up
uproot From the web:
- what uprooting means
- what is uprootedness meaning
- uprooting what the enemy has planted
- uprooted what does that mean
- what animal uproots plants
- what is uprooting my plants
- what is uproot beauty
- what does uprooted platinum do
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