Difference between Evoke and Extract

What is the difference between Evoke and Extract?

Evoke as a verb is to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. while Extract as a verb is to draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.

Evoke

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

Example sentence: I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

Extract

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which is extracted or drawn out.A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.Ancestry; descent.A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Compare abstract, transitive verb.To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.To determine (a root of a number).

Example sentence: The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

We hope you now know whether to use Evoke or Extract in your sentence.

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