Word Meanings - EXTRACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid

Additional info about word: EXTRACT

1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. Milton. 2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious. 3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. Swift. To extract the root , to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTRACT)

• Collate
• Adduce
• collect
• compare
• gather
• induct
• extract
• cite
• Decoction
• Concoction
• dish
• compound
• plate
• platter
• mess
• Elicit
• Draw
• evoke
• educe
• eliminate
• enucleate
• express
• worm
• evolve
• Evoke
• Excite
• provoke
• elicit
• produce
• summon
• call out
• Extort
• Wring
• despoil
• fleece
• exact
• squeeze out
• wrench
• wrest

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXTRACT)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to EXTRACT)

• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• WREAKEN
  p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• WRACK
  A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• WRENCH
  1. To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence. Wrench his sword from him. Shak. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woeful agony. Coleridge. 2. To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert. You wrenched your
• WRINKLY
  Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered. G. Eliot. His old wrinkly face grew quite blown out at last. Carlyle.
• WRATHLESS
  Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
• GATHER
  1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson. 2. To grow larger
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• BEWRAP
  To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
• DECOLLATED
  Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• UNWRIE
  To uncover. Chaucer.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• WRAP
  To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• OUTLAWRY
  1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection. 2. The state of being an outlaw.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.