v.
/
ɪkˈstrakt,
ɛk-/
- remove, especially by effort or force.
▸obtain (money, information, etc.) from someone unwilling to give it.
- obtain (a substance) from something by a special method.
- select (a passage from a text, film, or piece of music) for quotation, performance, or reproduction.
▸derive (an idea) from a situation or source.
- Mathematics calculate (a root of a number).
n.
/
ˈɛkstrakt/
- a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.
- a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form:
vanilla extract.
Derivative
- extractability n.
- extractable adj.
- extractive adj.
Etymology
ME: from L. extract-, extrahere ‘draw out’.