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What does extract mean?

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Noun
  1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  2. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
  3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue;
  4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
  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. (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
  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.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
  2. (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
  3. (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
  4. (transitive) To select parts of a whole
  5. (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
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