extract1 verbextract2 noun
extractex‧tract1 /ɪkˈstrækt/ ●●○ AWL verb [transitive] 
WORD ORIGINextract1
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of extrahere, from trahere ‘to pull’VERB TABLE
extract
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | extract |
| he, she, it | extracts | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | extracted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have extracted |
| he, she, it | has extracted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had extracted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will extract |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have extracted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am extracting |
| he, she, it | is extracting | |
| you, we, they | are extracting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was extracting |
| you, we, they | were extracting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been extracting |
| he, she, it | has been extracting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been extracting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be extracting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been extracting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 42 tons of gold were extracted at the mine in 1987.
- I'm having my wisdom teeth extracted.
- Police questioned the prisoner for several hours, but were unable to extract any further information.
- She had to have three teeth extracted.
- The bird uses its long beak to extract nectar from the flowers.
- The court ruled that her confession had been unlawfully extracted from her.
- The nuts are crushed in order to extract the oil from them.
- But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness.
- Glasses and ceramics extracted from the regolith may be used as structural materials, paving blocks, or windows.
- So far the demographic and market data contained in these records have not been fully extracted before the data are disposed of.
- The convoy of 12 ambulance wagons and vans was frustrated throughout the day in efforts to extract injured civilians.
- The wine mellowed the atmosphere between them, and Blanche felt less hurried than the week before to extract information from him.
- To extract each gram of water requires heating 2, 500 grams of regolith up to red heat.
- To extract the blood from the stone, the tax system has been changed in two ways since last summer.
- Yet the prospects of this constituency making a major political impact and extracting liberal reforms from the regime appear poor.
Longman Language Activatorto find out information from someone
to find out information from someone by asking them questions or by forcing them to tell you: find out something: · "Did you find out her views on the subject?" "No, she wouldn't tell me."find out what/how/when etc: · He asked me to find out what your plans are after you leave.find something out: · Will you see if you can find anything out about Sandy?
informal to find out a particular piece of information from someone, especially by forcing them to tell you: · Jed admitted he'd been at the scene, but that's all I could get out of him.· We'll get the truth out of her sooner or later.
to find out something from a person, a book, the Internet etc: · To get more information, telephone or contact us on our website.· You will be able to get most of the information you need from the school library.get information about/on: · I've written to the tourist information centre to get some information about the area.
formal to find out information from someone who does not want to give it, by asking them questions or by using physical force: · Police questioned the prisoner for several hours, but were unable to extract any further information.extract something from somebody: · The court ruled that her confession had been unlawfully extracted from her.
to find out information from someone who is unwilling to give it, especially by being clever, making them feel they can trust you etc: · He didn't want to tell me her name but I managed to worm it out of him.
to get information from someone who does not want to tell you it, especially by asking a lot of questions: · If she doesn't want to tell you, there's no point in trying to drag it out of her.
to remove something from inside something else to take something from inside a container or place: take out something: · She opened her briefcase and took out a letter.· I need to get to a cash machine and take out some money.· We'll have to take out the engine to fix the gearbox.take something out: · Roland reached inside his jacket and took his passport out.take something out of something: · She took a few coins out of her purse.
to take something from inside something. Remove is more formal than take out , and is used especially in writing: · Cut the fruit in half and remove the seeds.· He opened the torch and removed the bulb.remove from: · Someone had removed some papers from the file.
to remove something from deep inside something else, often when this is difficult: get something out: · The spare wheel was right at the back of the boot under a load of suitcases, so it took me ages to get it out.get something out of something: · It's important to get all the dirt out of the wound.get out something: · If you want to get out the old photo albums, you're going to have to dig in the bottom of that trunk.
to remove a natural substance from the ground or from a plant, or to take out someone's tooth: · 42 tons of gold were extracted at the mine in 1987.· She had to have three teeth extracted.extract something from something: · The nuts are crushed in order to extract the oil from them.· The bird uses its long beak to extract nectar from the flowers.
to remove something from the inside of something else, using a knife: cut out something: · Make sure you cut out any tough, gristly parts before you cook the meat.cut something out: · I knew I would have to cut the bullet out before the wound became infected.
to suddenly take something out from a place where it cannot be seen, for example from a pocket, bag etc: pull out something: · The man pulled out a gun and fired three shots.pull something out: · She pulled a notebook out and scribbled a few notes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
You’ll have to have that tooth extracted. They used torture to extract information about their families.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
You’ll have to have that tooth extracted. They used torture to extract information about their families. (=make someone give you one)· The Indian government was able to extract concessions on the price of oil.
(=get one with difficulty, or by using violence)· Torture was sometimes used to extract confessions.
formal (=to take oil out of an area)· the difficult process of extracting the oil
(=take it out)· The dentist announced that she would have to extract two teeth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· In extreme circumstances the customer or supplier may seek to use its strong position and extract personal benefits in return for giving its consent.· They know the modern trick is to extract the maximum political benefit from the Games without appearing to politicize them.
· So far the demographic and market data contained in these records have not been fully extracted before the data are disposed of.· This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data.· Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it.
· From him Méli, who was much more interested in eating his lobster, extracted a little information.· If they were captured by the Border Security Forces, well, it was pretty hard to extract information from a camel.· The wine mellowed the atmosphere between them, and Blanche felt less hurried than the week before to extract information from him.· The fact that some one can extract meaningful information from network traffic is nothing new.· Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.· A third feature becomes clear when we extract from the cosmogonies information which is relevant at this point.· His fear is that he will be tortured to extract information about his brother.· Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets.
· By extracting the oil too quickly, the engineer risks losing touch with the larger deposit and having to drill again.· The adults extract oil from the sea-creatures they eat and then regurgitate it for their chicks.
· Osterlind extracted a promise from Modi that he would stay sober.
· Sampling for mammal fossils often involves the patient sieving of great quantities of sediment to extract the fossil teeth.· Two out of three dentists said they had extracted teeth that they might have filled before the contract was introduced.· Dentists had no financial incentive to extract teeth, he said.
· For operations in the region of space from Earth out to the asteroid belt, we need only extract water.· Only instead of extracting oxygen from water, they use rock.· The first option is to extract water from subsurface permafrost and use that water directly in a nuclear or solar steam rocket.· As a result it is much more difficult for toads to extract water from clay.· The second option is to extract the water from ice-free minerals that contain water of hydration.· However, the mass of equipment required on Mars to extract and process water may be greatly increased.· We have seen how difficult it is to extract hydrogen and water from the Moon profitably.
VERB· Best of them is the young Robert Merrill, who at least manages to extract some expression from Germont's part.· Yet he managed to extract the best from everybody; on that, all agreed whether they liked him or not.· Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it.
· Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets.· One of our agents there says the Viet Cong were trying to extract too much protection money, and my husband refused.· We have been trying to extract the figures from the Opposition.· The monkeys were left to try to extract the food for themselves.· Instead, they're being put in the hands of chemists trying to extract a cancer drug called Taxol.· Once he had tried to extract so much from her, and not just details of the Tace affair.· Dexter guessed immediately that the man was trying to extract an exclusive story on the investigation into the murder of Nicola Sharpe.
WORD FAMILYnounextractionextractverbextract
1 formal to remove an object from somewhere, especially with difficulty SYN pull out: You’ll have to have that tooth extracted.extract something from something He extracted an envelope from his inside pocket.2to carefully remove a substance from something which contains it, using a machine, chemical process etcextract something from something Oils are extracted from the plants.3to get something which you want from someone, such as information, money, help etc, especially when they do not want to give it to youextract something from somebody She had extracted a promise from him. They used torture to extract information about their families.4to take information or a short piece of writing from a book: We need to extract the relevant financial data.5to get an advantage or good thing from a situationextract something from something They aim to extract the maximum political benefit from the Games.extract1 verbextract2 noun
extractex‧tract2 /ˈekstrækt/ ●●○ AWL noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In the following extract, Jones presents the arguments in favour of nuclear power.
- The book contains previously unpublished material, including extracts from diaries, letters and taped interviews.
- vanilla extract
- But he can't discuss what the extracts reveal.
- I think your subconscious decided to provide you with a sort of extract from the main story.
- The controversy has led other law enforcement agencies to take another look at the chile pepper extract.
- The wines of Bergères-les-Vertus are firm and fruity, with good extract and fine balance and well deserving of greater recognition.
- There's plenty of choice as cosmetics made with natural extracts abound.
- There are two other points in this extract, sentences 4 and 10, where adverbial clauses occur in sentence-initial position.
- This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.
Longman Language Activatorpart of a story/book/film/play etc
· Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', adapted for radio in six partspart of · I've finished the first part of my thesis.part about · Did you understand the part about switching the modem speed?Part One/Part 2 etc (=one of the main parts that a book, TV story etc is divided into) · Part One ends with the death of the hero's father.
British spoken a small part of a story or film: · My favourite bit is when they try to escape.bit of: · Some bits of the book are actually quite funny.
a part of a story on radio or television that is told in separate parts, usually weekly: · That was one of the best episodes - I wish I'd got it on tape.· Brad Pitt made a guest appearance on last week's episode.· Ernie directed all 12 of the half-hour episodes for television. episode of: · I've never even seen an episode of Star Trek.
British /installment American part of a story that is told in several parts printed regularly in a magazine or newspaper over a period of time: · Oliver Stone was in Thailand shooting the final instalment in his Vietnam trilogy, Heaven And Earth.weekly/monthly instalments: · Dickens wrote his novels in weekly instalments for a magazine.instalment of: · We are proud to present the second instalment of our fantastic six-part competition to win a Renault Clio.
one of the parts that a book is divided into: · These matters are dealt with in Chapters 8 & 9.· 'Have you finished "Lord of the Rings" yet?' 'I'm on the last chapter.'
one of the smaller parts of a play or film in which the same characters appear or the events happen in the same place: · The sex scenes between Depardieu and Brochet are sensitively filmed.· The ghost appears in Act 2, Scene 1.opening/closing scene (=the first or the last scene): · The opening scene of the movie features the gangsters discussing their next heist.
a part taken from something such as a book or a speech in order to show its most important points or to show what the whole of it is like: · In the following extract, Jones presents the arguments in favour of nuclear power.extract from: · The book contains previously unpublished material, including extracts from diaries, letters and taped interviews.
a short part taken from a film, book, speech, piece of music etc: excerpt from: · I'd like to read out a short excerpt from the poem.· The following excerpt is from one of my students' essays.· He played some excerpts from Grieg's piano concerto.
a short part of a film or other recording that is taken and used in another film or in a television programme: · The police have released a video clip of the attack. · The new software makes it possible to cut and paste sound or video clips from one application to another.clip from: · I saw a clip from the new Michael Douglas movie on TV last night.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract. (=make someone give you one)· The Indian government was able to extract concessions on the price of oil.
(=get one with difficulty, or by using violence)· Torture was sometimes used to extract confessions.
formal (=to take oil out of an area)· the difficult process of extracting the oil
(=take it out)· The dentist announced that she would have to extract two teeth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The above extracts and the documents from which they have been drawn, indicate a shift of emphasis.
· For example, the following extract comes from a discussion of rusting with a group of 5 and 6 year olds.· The basis for the proposed introduction of a new estate and its nature are made clear in the following extracts.· The following interview extract vividly illustrates the perceived difference, in the eyes of one senior manager in an acute unit.· By way of comparison, the following extract highlights the use of reflexive critical interpretation in the analysis of the data.· The following are extracts: I welcome you all here today.
· To further substantiate these results, we pre-incubated the nuclear extract with a 500 molar excess of wild type or mutated oligonucleotides.· Jun-Core is phosphorylated by a DNA-dependent kinase in HeLa nuclear extracts.· Treatment of nuclear extracts with phosphatase results in a comparable increase in the mobility of the 43 kDa polypeptide and ATF1.
· We will now score a few short extracts chosen to illustrate various points of treatment.· Here are three short extracts from Duncan Green's book Silent Revolution.· There have even been short extracts from late-night adjournment debates.
NOUN· And there are still more plant extracts in the superb Purifying Plant Mask!· Each preparation is a blend of fruit, flower, herb or plant extracts.· Some have tried to appear natural by mixing these chemicals with plant extracts.· So Clarins created Eye Contour Gel with plant extracts from camomile, cornflower, marigold, soothing mallow and astringent witch-hazel.· The perm lotion is made with seven natural plant extracts and the neutraliser contains fragrant, conditioning oil of mint.· Lesson 3 uses the example of sample preparation from a plant extract.
· Stir in the eggs, vanilla extract, almond essence and butter until they are evenly combined.· This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.· In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla extract and salt until well blended.· Add vanilla extract and beat until mixture thickens and loses its gloss.
· So much yeast is produced during fermentation that large amounts are sold to companies such as Marmite to be turned into yeast extract.
VERB· Be Imaginative Read the extract below.· To symbolise their commitment to work together in the future, they will read together an extract from the Swanwick Declaration.· The demonstration's organisers read out extracts from recordings that had allegedly been made in the president's office.
WORD FAMILYnounextractionextractverbextract
1[countable] a short piece of writing, music etc taken from a particular book, piece of music etc SYN excerptextract from I’ve only seen short extracts from the film.2[countable, uncountable] a substance obtained from something by using a special processvanilla/malt/plant etc extract Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract.