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.
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.
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
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.
An extract from a book or piece of writing is a small part of it that is printed or published separately. To extract a substance means to obtain it from something else, for example by using industrial or chemical processes.
To separate or eliminate, as a constituent part from the whole, as by distillation or heat, or other chemical or physical means: as, to extract spirit from cane-juice, or salt from sea-water.
Some common synonyms of extract are educe, elicit, evoke, and extort. While all these words mean "to draw out something hidden, latent, or reserved," extract implies the use of force or pressure in obtaining answers or information.
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