to extract
- verb
- /ɪkˈstrækt/
- Specialized
- The scientist had to extract the DNA from the samples using a special chemical process.
- extract oil
- extract gas
- extract minerals
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Watch on YouTubeThey then use that to extract red yeast rice extract from that.
- They then use that to extract red yeast rice extract from that.
- Like you can pump air through giant filters and extract the carbon dioxide.
- And the more gold we can reuse, the less we have to extract from the ground.
- OK Mood offers federally legal forms of THC extracted from hemp plants.
- I use it to extract the essence out of, you know, herbs and flowers.
- One of my favorites is Rishi Rishi tea, a dual extracted Rishi tea.
- We have extracted bile from her stomach that's not supposed to be there.
- Now it actually says it will extract blackheads without pain, squeezing or damage to the skin.
Examples
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They extract it from the sand by steaming and heating water, basically boiling it...
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Simple machine learning algorithms, such as discriminant analysis, will enable us to extract features from data.
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If I go right click on that, I can extract it because it's a zip file.
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These plants that process or extract petroleum products are really far away.
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Once dried, we are able to extract from its stomach what is needed.
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And the more gold we can reuse, the less we have to extract from the ground.
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We, we can, you know, extract amplified DNA.
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Academic performance was extracted from school records at the end of each grade.
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She came here hoping to extract healing properties from the spiders.
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Unconventional gas is technically difficult to recover, but once extracted, it is identical to conventional natural gas.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
Get something from a person or thing
Make a liquid pure by heating it and collecting the cooled steam
Push out a substance, for example gas from a body or container
To press something to get liquid out
Remove one part from a mixture using a filter or another method
To get a pure substance from other material for study
To get liquid from something by squeezing it
To force liquid out of something by squeezing it
To remove the soft part inside bones for food
To separate a mixture into parts using a scientific or industrial method
To separate a part from a solid material when it cools or conditions change
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A liquid made by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol to add flavor to food and drinks
People mix alcohol and vanilla beans at home to add flavor to recipes
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An ingredient made from yeast cells that adds a savory taste
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A flavoring made from the kola nut used to give soft drinks their taste
How Concentrated
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Surface Forms
Morphology
extract = ex + tract
This sense continues the historical idea of 'draw out', but for most learners the meaning is not recoverable from ex- and the bound root 'tract' as modern English morphemes.
Etymology
Extract comes from old Latin parts ex- 'out' and trahere 'to pull'. In science, to extract a substance is to pull out the useful part from a plant or mixture by a special process, the same basic idea as the word tractor which pulls things.