Definition: 1. A short passage from a book, piece of music. 2. A substance that has been obtained from something else using a particular process. 3. Draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort. 4. Extract by the process of distillation.
Use 'extract' in a sentence:
1. Once the commodity rights are leased, the lessee will issue the owner an up-front payment to explore the property and investigate possible ways to extract the commodity.
2. The following are extracts from the original article.
3. When cocaine eventually fell from grace as a beverage ingredient, kola-extract colas became popular.
4. He used her cash card, and the PIN number he had extracted from her, to take £ 500 from cashpoints.
5. The traditional method of pick and shovel to extract coal.
6. The author extracts the maximum from every carefully-crafted scene in this witty tale.
7. They used to look for potential and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant's skills.
8. One such popular medicinal drink was Vin Mariani, a French product consisting of coca extract mixed with red wine.
9. Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her weimaraners made from beef extract and malt.
10. He sought to extract the maximum political advantage from the cut in interest rates.
11. Water circulated through heat reservoirs in this temperature range is able to extract enough heat to warm residential, commercial, and industrial spaces.
12. This material has been extracted from 'Collins Good Wood Handbook'.
13. fragrances taken from plant extracts.
14. The threat of bankruptcy is a legitimate tool to extract money from them.
15. The information could be used as a bargaining chip to extract some parallel information from Britain.
16. Through hearing stories with a clear beginning, middle, and ending children may learn too extract the gist f events in ways that they will be able to describe many years later.
17. For ease of reference, only the relevant extracts of the regulations are included.
18. Her tooth was extracted under local anaesthetic.
19. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
20. OBJECTIVERhizosphere soil extract was analyzed to get some primary information about rubber trees root exudates.
21. The dentist may decide that the wisdom teeth need to be extracted.
22. The following extract is taken from her new novel.
23. The most effective new botanicals are extracts from cola nut and marine algae.
24. Journalists managed to extract all kinds of information about her private life.
25. The juice is extracted by centrifugal force.
26. A dentist may decide to extract the tooth to prevent recurrent trouble.
27. Blend in the lemon extract, lemon peel and walnuts.
28. He used her cash card, and the PIN number he had extracted from her, to take £500 from cashpoints.
29. He only found short extracts from the film.
30. face cream containing natural plant extracts.
31. They are unlikely to extract much benefit from the trip.
32. to extract essential oils from plants.
33. He rifled through his briefcase and extracted a file.
34. Patterson went straight to the liquor cabinet and extracted a bottle of Scotch.
35. Nonruminants cannot extract much energy from the hard parts of a plant; however, this is more than made up for by the fast speed at which food passes through their guts.
36. They were performing a short extract from Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.
37. He made the mistake of trying to extract further information from our director.
38. His development policies have extracted cash from the city centre.
39. One of the most successful ways to collect them is to gather the leaf litter in which they are foraging and extract the ants from it.
40. She reached into the wardrobe and extracted another tracksuit.
41. In this chocolate melting recipe, I use a little pure vanilla extract to enhance the icing. However, you could also use peppermint or coffee.
42. She is to go and have a tooth extracted at 3 o'clock today.
43. Read this extract from an information booklet about the work of an airline cabin crew.
44. a machine that extracts excess moisture from the air.
45. This article is extracted from his new book.
46. They need to extract as much information as possible from the first or second reading.
47. The resin from which the oil is extracted comes from a small, tough tree.
48. In a large saucepan, combine milk, vanilla extract, and 1 tablespoon butter or margarine. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then remove from burner.
49. .the capitalist system, which extracts huge profits from arms production at the tax-payers' expense.
50. The rest is far too difficult to extract and has to remain underground.
51. At the time, coca leaf extract mixed with wine was a common tonic, and Pemberton's sweet brew was a way to get around local laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
52. The team's attempts to extract DNA from the 1947 bones all failed.
53. Owen recognized that the Wellington cave bones belonged to an extract marsupial.
54. He extracted a small notebook from his hip pocket.
55. The first part is to extract each packet.
56. But it's said to no longer contain kola nut extract, relying instead on artificial imitations to achieve the flavor.
57. Britain's trade figures can no longer be extracted from export-and-import documentation at ports.
58. The plant fruticose breynia juvenile extract from the stem.
59. I've simply extracted a few figures.
60. Detect and extract characteristic values of attack pulse with digital signal processing technology, melts attack risks.
61. For these tools, the question might be in two parts: Given an arbitrary receipt, can you scan it sufficiently well to extract data?
62. High in fiber, this brown algae extract helps control liver and lung cancer, douses inflammation, and is anti-tumor and anti-oxidative.
63. This type of surgery could even be used to extract cancerous growths.
64. Citric acid can be extracted from the juice of oranges, lemons, limes or grapefruit.
