Extract

What “Extract” means

Noun

1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

Verb

1. To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
2. To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
3. To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of
4. To select parts of a whole
5. To determine (a root of a number).

Where the word comes from

Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrahō, from ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“to drag”).

Business name ideas with “Extract”

Industries where “Extract” fits

We suggest this word for 1 business types and industries, including:

• Spice and Extract Manufacturing