Definition of extract

"extract" in the noun sense

1. infusion, extract

a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

2. excerpt, excerption, extract, selection

a passage selected from a larger work

"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

"extract" in the verb sense

1. extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out, rip out, tear out

remove, usually with some force or effort also used in an abstract sense

"pull weeds"

"extract a bad tooth"

"take out a splinter"

"extract information from the telegram"

2. extract

get despite difficulties or obstacles

"I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"

3. educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning

"We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

4. distill, extract, distil

extract by the process of distillation

"distill the essence of this compound"

5. extract

separate (a metal) from an ore

6. press out, express, extract

obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

"Italians express coffee rather than filter it"

7. excerpt, extract, take out

take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

8. extract

calculate the root of a number

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Quotations for extract

Experience is the extract of suffering. [ Arthur Helps ]

Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech,
And holds mine ear in blissful slavery. [ Bailey ]

Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you will. [ Cicero ]

Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. [ Shenstone ]

The art requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

How many of us have been attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. [ Lord Lytton ]

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]

extract in Scrabble®

The word extract is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters extract:

EXTRACT
(122 = 72 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word extract

EXTRACT
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EXTRACT
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EXTRACT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In extract

EXTRACT
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EXTRACT
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EXTRACT
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extract in Words With Friends™

The word extract is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters extract:

EXTRACT
(140 = 105 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

extract

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word extract

EXTRACT
(140 = 105 + 35)
EXTRACT
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EXTRACT
(116 = 81 + 35)
EXTRACT
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EXTRACT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In extract

EXTRACT
(140 = 105 + 35)
EXTRACT
(134 = 99 + 35)
EXTRACT
(116 = 81 + 35)
EXTRACT
(110 = 75 + 35)
EXTRACT
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Words within the letters of extract

2 letter words in extract (6 words)

3 letter words in extract (19 words)

4 letter words in extract (10 words)

7 letter words in extract (1 word)

extract + 1 blank (1 word)

extract + 2 blanks (4 words)

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