English-Estonian translations for extract

Definition of extract

  • Something that is extracted or drawn out
  • A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
  • Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
  • 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
  • To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc
  • To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb
  • To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book
  • To select parts of a whole
  • To determine (a root of a number

Examples

  • I used an extract of Hemingways book to demonstrate culture shock.
  • extract of beef
  • extract of dandelion
  • quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
  • to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
  • to extract an essential oil from a plant
  • We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
  • Please extract the cube root of 27

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