extracts

Meaning of extracts

verb, 3rd person present
  1. remove or take out, especially by effort or force.
    the fossils are extracted from the chalk
  2. calculate (a root of a number).
    early computers had an instruction to extract a square root
plural noun
  1. a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.
    an extract from a historical film
  2. a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form.
    natural plant extracts
    a shampoo with extract of camomile

late Middle English: from Latin extract- ‘drawn out’, from the verb extrahere, from ex- ‘out’ + trahere ‘draw’.

Information about extracts

  • The singular form of extracts is: extract.
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Hyphenation of extracts

ex-tracts

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • extracts is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

extracts synonyms

Meaning take (something) away or off from the position occupied:

remove

Meaning remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position:

withdraw

Meaning free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty:

extricate

Meaning pull (something, especially a tree or plant) out of the ground:

uproot

Meaning draw or pull out (a knife, sword, or similar weapon) from its sheath or covering:

unsheathe

Meaning show or provide (something) for consideration, inspection, or use:

produce

Meaning release from physical obstruction or restraint:

free

Meaning allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free:

release

Meaning uproot (someone) from their natural geographical, social, or cultural environment:

deracinate

Meaning a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing:

excerpt

Meaning a short extract from a book or other printed material:

passage

Meaning a summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech:

abstract

Meaning a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work:

citation

Meaning the action or fact of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best or most suitable:

selection

Meaning a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker:

quotation

Meaning an article or other piece cut from a newspaper or periodical:

cutting

Meaning an article cut from a newspaper or magazine:

clipping

Meaning a small piece or brief extract:

snippet

Meaning an isolated or incomplete part of something:

fragment

Meaning a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:

piece

Meaning a collection of short literary or philosophical extracts:

analects

Meaning a concentrated liquor resulting from heating or boiling a substance, especially a medicinal preparation made from a plant:

decoction, decocture

Meaning the action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling:

distillation

Meaning something formed by distillation:

distillate

Meaning the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events:

abstraction

Meaning a substance made by removing or reducing the diluting agent; a concentrated form of something:

concentrate

Meaning an extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter and used for flavouring or scent:

essence

Meaning the liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables:

juice

Meaning a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation:

solution

Meaning a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol:

tincture

Meaning a particular type of medicinal solution:

elixir

Meaning the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class:

quintessence

Meaning a concentrated liquor resulting from heating or infusing a substance, used for medicinal purposes:

apozem

extracts antonyms

Meaning place, fit, or push (something) into something else:

insert

Words that rhyme with extracts

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