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).
Abstract
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An abridgement or summary.Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.An abstraction; an abstract term.An abstract work of art.That which is abstract.A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Extracted.Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.Absent in mind.Apart from practice or reality; not concrete; ideal; vague; theoretical; impersonal.Difficult to understand; abstruse.Free from representational qualities.General (as opposed to particular).Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To separate; to remove; to take away.To withdraw.(euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.To create artistic abstractions of.To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself.To draw off (interest or attention).To extract by means of distillation.To withdraw oneself; to retire.To perform the process of abstraction.To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".