Extract \Ex"tract`\, n. 1. That which is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
4. (Med.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See {Abstract}, n., 4.
5. (Old Chem.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the {extractive principle}. [Obs.]
6. Extraction; descent. [Obs.] --South.
7. (Scots Law) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. --Tomlins.
{Fluid extract} (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.
Extract \Ex*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extracted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Extracting}.] [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See {Trace}, and cf. {Estreat}.] 1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. --Milton.
2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. {Abstract}, v. t., 6.
Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.
3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. --Swift.
{To extract the root} (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.
The lunar soil would be mined to extract oxygen, which then could be turned into rocket fuel.
Peru, apparently abandoning plans to extract significant concessions from the International Monetary Fund, is expected to sign today in Washington an IMF letter of intent to frame economic policy until 1995, Sally Bowen writes from Lima.
Even if governments had refused to make further capacity cuts, it should have been possible to extract other concessions.
Analysts ought to be able to extract this information and recalculate if they disagree with the accounting treatment adopted.
The protesters say the rush to extract gold _ a process that commonly employs cyanide and can be done by stripping _ could gravely threaten the sacred mountain and also undermine farming, fishing and tourism, western Ireland's economic pillars.
It offers the opportunity of trying to extract more revenue from the mature coach market. The airport is a revenue stream in its own right, with operating profits in the year to March 1992 of Pounds 2.5m.
Chinn and Wallach are now under indictment for racketeering, fraud and conspiracy in an alleged scheme to extract payments from the Bronx, N.Y., defense contractor in order to influence Meese and other federal officials.
Scald 3/4 -1pt Jersey milk with a shake of pure vanilla extract, sweeten it with 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar (or slightly less if honey is used) and add an optional teaspoon of brandy.
However, while the article presented the most pertinent issues in their complexities, it failed to extract one key issue. From economic or credit perspective analysis, rather than citing just the per capita indebtedness.
But Mr. Dukakis, who maintained his strong stand against protectionist trade legislation, wasn't specific about how the U.S. could extract such cooperation.
For those who argue that this is not the case, and that extensive litigation using ADA protections may extract costly settlements for work not done, there are some facts to bear in mind. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 sets a precedent.
A spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl's governing coalition, Matthias Wissmann, praised the merger decision as a means of allowing Bonn to extract itself from the unprofitable Airbus venture.
In his remarks Friday, he said it had once been "historically necessary to put pressure on the village" to extract resources for Soviet industrialization, apparently referring to the policies of dictator Josef V. Stalin.
Already, though, one must assume that the Keswicks have a shrewd idea of the sort of value they can extract.
The apprentice of the title, personally trained by Charlie, falls down on the job of trying to extract a British Agent from Beijing, and our hero has to swing back into action, much to the dismay of his superiors who thought they had got rid of him.
The latest commission order will probably help Texas Instruments extract a similar agreement from Samsung, Mr. Gumport, the analyst, said.
Have they actually used the roads to extract wood?
Carlton Curtis, a spokesman for Coca-Cola in its Atlanta headquarters, said use of the coca extract in the soft drink is common knowledge, although the company closely guards its secret formula, first developed in 1886.
Col. North is paying for President Reagan's lapse; Lawrence Walsh may try to extract the next pound of flesh in a criminal court.
The couple knew better than to try to extract the boa themselves.
The New York Times published an extract from Mr. Sheehan's book complaining that Times editors badgered Mr. Halberstam about contrary reports by Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune.
If the banks are to forfeit some of their existing rights as senior creditors, they will no doubt extract a price.
Recent studies, however, have shown that footwork is simply the best way to derive the maximum colour and extract in the shortest period of time.
Their economy is dead.' Analysts believe that North Korea may try to use the incident for propaganda purposes and to extract new concessions from the US.
The agency said tests detected Salmonella in a soybean powder extract used in the Sunrider products and in some samples of finished products.
Harold Seligman, a travel consultant in Stamford, Conn., says big companies will use their clout to extract better discounts from hotels and restaurants.
The comments were made one week after The New York Times reported the Reagan administration pressured Taiwan to close the reactor and to stop work on a secret installation that could have processed the reactor's spent fuel to extract plutonium.
Instead, they do research on such topics as why certain fish are attracted to each other, on how barley roots extract iron from soil and on insects' sex lives.
And some observers believe that the apparently swift conclusion of the FTC probe, together with some recent Nintendo victories in its private legal battles, suggest that the agency didn't extract major concessions from the company.
The extract is from Lord Radcliffe's 1951 Reith lectures, entitled The Problem of Power.