Difference between Extract and Express

What is the difference between Extract and Express?

Extract as a noun is that which is extracted or drawn out. while Express as a noun is a mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.

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: I love the smell of vanilla, but I didn't have perfumes growing up, so I wore vanilla extract.

Express

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.Specific or precise.Truly depicted; exactly resembling.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).To translate messenger RNA into protein.To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.

Example sentence: Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

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

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