Extract forms a kind of mirror image of abstract: more common as a verb, but also used as a noun and adjective. The adjective, meaning “derived or descended,” is now obsolete, as is a sense of the noun that overlapped with abstract, “summary.”
10. a solid, viscid, or liquid substance containing the essence or active substance of a food, plant, or drug in concentrated form: beef extract; vanilla extract.
To extract is to draw forth something as by pulling, importuning, or the like: to extract a confession by torture. To exact is to impose a penalty, or to obtain by force or authority, something to which one lays claim: to exact payment.
extract (plural extracts) Something that is extracted or drawn out. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
To remove, draw out, or obtain something, often by a deliberate and systematic process. "The dentist gently used a tool to extract the decayed tooth." It involves taking a specific substance or piece of information from a larger source or context.
When you extract something, you remove it from a larger whole. You can extract a passage from a book, or a liquid essence from a vanilla bean—vanilla extract.
EXTRACT meaning: 1 : to remove (something) by pulling it out or cutting it out; 2 : to get (information, a response, etc.) from someone who does not want to give it
EXTRACT meaning: 1 : to remove (something) by pulling it out or cutting it out; 2 : to get (information, a response, etc.) from someone who does not want to give it