The difference between Extract and Extraction
When used as nouns, extract means something that is extracted or drawn out, whereas extraction means an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
Extract is also verb with the meaning: to draw out.
check bellow for the other definitions of Extract and Extraction
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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."
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Extraction as a noun:
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
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Extraction as a noun:
A person's origin or ancestry.
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Extraction as a noun:
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
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Extraction as a noun (military):
An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
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Extraction as a noun (dentistry):
A removal of a tooth from its socket.