extract - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a passage selected from a larger work

Synonyms

• excerpt
• excerption
• extract
• selection

More generic

• passage

More specific

• analecta
• analects
• chrestomathy
• citation
• clipping
• cut
• cutting
• newspaper clipping
• press clipping
• press cutting
• quotation
• quote
• track

Noun

a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

Synonyms

• extract
• infusion

More generic

• solution

More specific

• Bovril
• beef tea
• black catechu
• catechu
• pancreatin

Verb

extract by the process of distillation

Synonyms

• distil
• distill
• extract

More generic

• create
• make

More specific

• moonshine

Related

• distil
• distill

Verb

calculate the root of a number

Synonyms

• extract

More generic

• calculate
• cipher
• compute
• cypher
• figure
• reckon
• work out

Verb

take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

Synonyms

• excerpt
• extract
• take out

More generic

• choose
• pick out
• select
• take

Verb

remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

Synonyms

• draw out
• extract
• pull
• pull out
• pull up
• rip out
• take out
• tear out

More generic

• remove
• take
• take away
• withdraw

More specific

• demodulate
• squeeze out
• thread
• wring out

Related

• draw
• get out
• pull
• pull out
• take out

Verb

obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

Synonyms

• express
• extract
• press out

More generic

• acquire
• get

More specific

• ream

Verb

separate (a metal) from an ore

Synonyms

• extract

More generic

• separate

Verb

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

Synonyms

• draw out
• educe
• elicit
• evoke
• extract

More generic

• construe
• interpret
• see

Verb

get despite difficulties or obstacles

Synonyms

• extract

More generic

• obtain

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