extract

extract is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

• (noun): enPR: ĕks'trăkt, IPA ^(key): /ˈɛkstrækt/
• (verb): enPR: ĭkstrăkt', IPA ^(key): /ɪksˈtrækt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ex‧tract

Noun

Singular extract

Plural extracts

1. (countable & uncountable) An extract is something that has been taken out of something else, usually something that it was part of.
   • Synonym: remove
   • Antonym: insert

   Just because a cream contains plant extracts doesn't mean it's good for your skin.

   I'll read a short extract from his speech.

   Many scientists were interested in other tissue extracts.

Verb

Plain form extract

Third-person singular extracts

Past tense extracted

Past participle extracted

Present participle extracting

1. (transitive) If you extract something, you take it out of something else.

   Computers are becoming more useful in helping us extract useful information from the data.

   The dentist will have to extract two of my teeth.

   The roots of the plant extract water from the earth.

Related words

• extraction
• extractor
• tract