Extract
verb
To get or take out something from somewhere.
The dentist had to extract a tooth that was causing me a lot of pain.
Often appears as...
- extract information
- extract dna
verb
To get something, like a substance or a quality, from something else.
Scientists were able to extract valuable data from the experiment.
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- extract meaning
- extract juice
verb
To find and show information that is within a lot of other information.
The team of data analysts extracted useful trends from the large dataset.
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- extract data
- extract figures
noun
A substance you get from something through a special process.
The recipe requires a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
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- vanilla extract
- extract of meat
noun
A short piece of writing, music, or film taken from a longer whole.
She read an extract from her latest novel.
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- extract from a book
- extract from a film
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Literary
verb
To get or take out something from somewhere.
The dentist had to extract a tooth that was causing me a lot of pain.
Often appears as...
- extract information
- extract dna
verb
To get something, like a substance or a quality, from something else.
Scientists were able to extract valuable data from the experiment.
Often appears as...
- extract meaning
- extract juice
verb
To find and show information that is within a lot of other information.
The team of data analysts extracted useful trends from the large dataset.
Often appears as...
- extract data
- extract figures
noun
A substance you get from something through a special process.
The recipe requires a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Often appears as...
- vanilla extract
- extract of meat
noun
A short piece of writing, music, or film taken from a longer whole.
She read an extract from her latest novel.
Often appears as...
- extract from a book
- extract from a film
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Removal
Often used to describe a physical action, like removing a part of an object or body.
The surgeon will extract the foreign object from the wound.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity
Can emphasize difficulty or effort in removing something successfully.
It took hours to extract the rusted screw from the board.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Removal
Often used to describe a physical action, like removing a part of an object or body.
The surgeon will extract the foreign object from the wound.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity
Can emphasize difficulty or effort in removing something successfully.
It took hours to extract the rusted screw from the board.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Removal
Often used to describe a physical action, like removing a part of an object or body.
The surgeon will extract the foreign object from the wound.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity
Can emphasize difficulty or effort in removing something successfully.
It took hours to extract the rusted screw from the board.
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Are spotty fruits and...
Those spots are evidence of an epic battle between plants and microbes. Like humans, plants coexist with billions of fungi and bacteria. Some of these microbes are beneficial to the plant, suppressing disease and helping it extract nutrients. Others are pathogens, attacking the produce,
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Saving Bears In The...
Bev our farms certainly in this part of the world don't breed animals they remove animals from the wild to extract a product from them in this case bear bile and continue to extract that product from them until the animal passes away and then they remove another one from the wild
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
they're all noisy and imperfect -- and we extract from them an inferred task trajectory and control sequence for the robot. We then execute that on the robot, we observe what happens, then we adjust the controls, using a sequence of techniques called iterative learning.
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Turning chicken feathers...
poultry meal made from leftover feathers and other animal parts used for animal diets the plants usually extract 6 to 12 percent of oil from which for example biodiesel could be made moreover feathers are an important source of keratin protein which has this
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How do we separate the...
or boiling point to extract what's required. Take petroleum, a mixture of different types of hydrocarbons. Some of these are valuable as fuels, and others make good raw materials for generating electric power. To separate them, experts rely on one important
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Symbiosis: A surprising...
This symbiosis is so important to both species that they've changed, or evolved, to suit each other. Nutcrackers have developed long, tough beaks for extracting seeds from cones, and whitebarks' branches all sweep upwards with the cones at the very ends,
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You are your microbes -...
As food travels through our digestive tract, it reaches the fermentors who extract energy from these sugars by converting them into chemicals, like alcohol and hydrogen gas, which they spew out as waste products. Deeper in the depths of our gut city,
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Why do we pass gas? -...
In exchange, they help us extract energy from our food, make vitamins for us, like vitamin B and K, boost our immune system, and play an important role in gastrointestinal barrier function, motility and the development of various organ systems.
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What caused the French...
and they were the only ones who paid taxes, not just to the king, but to the other Estates as well. In bad harvest years, taxation could leave peasants with almost nothing while the king and nobles lived lavishly on their extracted wealth.
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Human Body 101 PIPE...
Systems come in The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the air we breathe Air enters the body through nasal cavities travels down the throat and is then transported to the lung
Video examples
Are spotty fruits and...
Those spots are evidence of an epic battle between plants and microbes. Like humans, plants coexist with billions of fungi and bacteria. Some of these microbes are beneficial to the plant, suppressing disease and helping it extract nutrients. Others are pathogens, attacking the produce,
Video examples
Saving Bears In The...
Bev our farms certainly in this part of the world don't breed animals they remove animals from the wild to extract a product from them in this case bear bile and continue to extract that product from them until the animal passes away and then they remove another one from the wild
Video examples
Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
they're all noisy and imperfect -- and we extract from them an inferred task trajectory and control sequence for the robot. We then execute that on the robot, we observe what happens, then we adjust the controls, using a sequence of techniques called iterative learning.
Video examples
Turning chicken feathers...
poultry meal made from leftover feathers and other animal parts used for animal diets the plants usually extract 6 to 12 percent of oil from which for example biodiesel could be made moreover feathers are an important source of keratin protein which has this
Video examples
How do we separate the...
or boiling point to extract what's required. Take petroleum, a mixture of different types of hydrocarbons. Some of these are valuable as fuels, and others make good raw materials for generating electric power. To separate them, experts rely on one important
Video examples
Symbiosis: A surprising...
This symbiosis is so important to both species that they've changed, or evolved, to suit each other. Nutcrackers have developed long, tough beaks for extracting seeds from cones, and whitebarks' branches all sweep upwards with the cones at the very ends,
Video examples
You are your microbes -...
As food travels through our digestive tract, it reaches the fermentors who extract energy from these sugars by converting them into chemicals, like alcohol and hydrogen gas, which they spew out as waste products. Deeper in the depths of our gut city,
Video examples
Why do we pass gas? -...
In exchange, they help us extract energy from our food, make vitamins for us, like vitamin B and K, boost our immune system, and play an important role in gastrointestinal barrier function, motility and the development of various organ systems.
Video examples
What caused the French...
and they were the only ones who paid taxes, not just to the king, but to the other Estates as well. In bad harvest years, taxation could leave peasants with almost nothing while the king and nobles lived lavishly on their extracted wealth.
Video examples
Human Body 101 PIPE...
Systems come in The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the air we breathe Air enters the body through nasal cavities travels down the throat and is then transported to the lung
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Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value can be measured in cash terms; and that what can't be measured does not matter, have proved lethal to the rest of life on Earth.
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Fei-Fei Li
Chinese Scientist
If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.
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Sushma Swaraj
Indian Politician
We must be prepared to extract costs for those who sponsor and support terrorists, who provide them sanctuary, and who, despite their own claimed victimhood, continue to make the false distinction between good and bad terrorists.
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Marcus Samuelsson
Ethiopian Chef
I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
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Napoleon Hill
American Author
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Erwin McManus
American Author
I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world.
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Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian Director
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Robert Stone
American Novelist
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
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Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
The notions that nature exists to serve us; that its value consists of the instrumental benefits we can extract; that this value can be measured in cash terms; and that what can't be measured does not matter, have proved lethal to the rest of life on Earth.
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Fei-Fei Li
Chinese Scientist
If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.
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Sushma Swaraj
Indian Politician
We must be prepared to extract costs for those who sponsor and support terrorists, who provide them sanctuary, and who, despite their own claimed victimhood, continue to make the false distinction between good and bad terrorists.
Quote examples
Marcus Samuelsson
Ethiopian Chef
I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
Quote examples
Napoleon Hill
American Author
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Quote examples
Erwin McManus
American Author
I hope my greatest contribution will be to try to extract principles of truth that will cause us to live our lives in a more effective way and to advance Jesus' purpose in the world.
Quote examples
Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian Director
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Quote examples
Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.
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Robert Stone
American Novelist
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
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