extract

1. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.Examples: "to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"; "The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet."; "The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices)."Synonyms: outdrawtransitive

2. (transitive) To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).Examples: "to extract an essential oil from a plant"; "Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism."transitive

3. (transitive) To choose out; to cite or quote, for example a passage from a text.Examples: "I have thought it proper to extract out of that pamphlet a few of those notorious falsehoods."; "As his work is probably not easily accessible to many of my readers, I shall perhaps consult their convenience by extracting his description entire."transitive

4. (transitive) To select parts of a wholeExamples: "We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."transitive

5. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).Examples: "Please extract the cube root of 27."; "[…] Mr. Nackybal was thoroughly examined, both in cubing and extracting, from the table that Louit had provided."transitive