The difference between Extract and Extractive principle
When used as nouns, extract means something that is extracted or drawn out, whereas extractive principle means a peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
Extract is also verb with the meaning: to draw out.
check bellow for the other definitions of Extract and Extractive principle
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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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Extractive principle as a noun:
a peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts