extract

名词 n. 动词 v.
发音 ĕk'străkt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  2. A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
    — I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
  3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
    — vanilla extract
  4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
    — quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
  5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
  6. A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts. obsolete
  7. Ancestry; descent.
  8. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
动词 v.
  1. To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc. transitive
    — to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
  2. To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb). transitive
    — to extract an essential oil from a plant
  3. To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of transitive
    — extract a passage from a text.
  4. To select parts of a whole transitive
    — We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
  5. To determine (a root of a number). transitive
    — Please extract the cube root of 27.

词形变化

extracts plural extracts present,singular,third-person extracting participle,present extracted past extracted participle,past extraught archaic,participle,past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).
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