Is “Extract” a Scrabble word?
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Meaning of Extract
1.Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2.A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
“I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.”
3.A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
“extract of beef”
Synonyms: extraction, origin, extractive principle, extraction
1.To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
“to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger”
2.To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
“to extract an essential oil from a plant”
3.To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Synonyms: outdraw, sunder out