Definitions for extraction
  • Extract (v. t.) - 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.
  • Extract (v. t.) - To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
  • Extract (v. t.) - To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
  • Extract (n.) - That which is extracted or drawn out.
  • Extract (n.) - A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
  • Extract (n.) - A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
  • Extract (n.) - A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
  • Extract (n.) - A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
  • Extract (n.) - Extraction; descent.
  • Extract (n.) - A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
  • Extractability - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extractable (a.) - Alt. of Extractible
  • Extractant - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extractants - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extracted (imp. & p. p.) - of Extract
  • Extractibility - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extractible (a.) - Capable of being extracted.
  • Extracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Extract
  • Extraction (n.) - The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
  • Extraction (n.) - Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
  • Extraction (n.) - That which is extracted; extract; essence.
  • Extractions - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extraction's - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extractive (a.) - Capable of being extracted.
  • Extractive (a.) - Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
  • Extractive (n.) - Anything extracted; an extract.
  • Extractive (n.) - A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
  • Extractive (n.) - Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.
  • Extractively - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extractives - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Extracts - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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