extract
/ˈɛkstɹækt/ noun B2- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synonymous to 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 · vanilla extract· extract of beef
- 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).
- 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.
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He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both.
There he saw the grand-marshal, who charged him with an oral message to a Bonapartist in Paris, whose name I could not extract from him; but this mission was to prepare men’s minds for a return (it is the man who says this, sire)—a return which will soon occur.”
I still retain in my scrap-book numerous clippings and extracts bearing upon the case.
One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
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