The difference between Deduction and Extract
When used as nouns, deduction means that which is deducted, whereas extract means something that is extracted or drawn out.
Extract is also verb with the meaning: to draw out.
check bellow for the other definitions of Deduction and Extract
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Deduction as a noun:
That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed
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Deduction as a noun:
A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off
Examples:
"You might want to donate the old junk and just take the deduction."
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Deduction as a noun (logic):
A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
Examples:
"ant induction"
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Deduction as a noun:
A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
Examples:
"He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it."
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Deduction as a noun:
The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
Examples:
"Through his powers of deduction, he realized that the plan would never work."
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Extract as a noun:
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
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Extract as a noun:
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
Examples:
"I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
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Extract as a noun:
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
Examples:
"extract of beef"
"extract of dandelion"
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Extract as a noun:
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
Examples:
"quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark."
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Extract as a noun:
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
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Extract as a noun (obsolete):
A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
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Extract as a noun:
Ancestry; descent.
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Extract as a noun:
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
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Extract as a verb (transitive):
To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
Examples:
"to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger"
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Extract as a verb (transitive):
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
Examples:
"to extract an essential oil from a plant"
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Extract as a verb (transitive):
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
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Extract as a verb (transitive):
To select parts of a whole
Examples:
"We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat."
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Extract as a verb (transitive, arithmetic):
To determine (a root of a number).
Examples:
"Please extract the cube root of 27."