1a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music:an extract from a historical film
2a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form:natural plant extracts [mass noun]:a shampoo with extract of camomile
ზმნა
Universal
1remove or take out, especially by effort or force:the fossils are extracted from the chalk
obtain (a substance or resource) from something by a special method:lead was extracted from the copper
obtain (something such as money or information) from someone unwilling to give it:I won’t let you go without trying to extract a promise from you
select (a passage from a text, film, or piece of music) for quotation, performance, or reproduction:the table is extracted from the report
derive (an idea) from a body of information:there are few attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the disciplines
2 Mathematics calculate (a root of a number):early computers had an instruction to extract a square root
