Crossword-Solution: EXTRACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extract | v. t. | 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. |
| Extract | v. t. | To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. |
| Extract | v. t. | To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. |
| Extract | n. | That which is extracted or drawn out. |
| Extract | n. | A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation. |
| Extract | n. | 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. |
| Extract | n. | A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4. |
| Extract | n. | A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle. |
| Extract | n. | Extraction; descent. |
| Extract | n. | A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXTRACT (5)
Box 9890, Windhoek 9000, Namibia); telephone [264] (61) 221-601, 222-675, 222-680 _#_Flag: a large blue triangle with a yellow sunburst fills the upper left section, and an equal green triangle (solid) fills the lower right section; the triangles are separated by a red stripe which is contrasted by two narrow white edge borders _*_Economy _#_Overview: The economy is heavily dependent on the mining industry to extract and process minerals for export.
There is a mainstream variant of this myth involving a `Trunk Line Monitor', which supposedly used speech recognition to extract words from telephone trunks.
Box 9890, Windhoek 9000, Namibia); telephone [264] (61) 221-601, 222-675, 222-680; FAX [264] (61) 229-792 Flag: a large blue triangle with a yellow sunburst fills the upper left section, and an equal green triangle (solid) fills the lower right section; the triangles are separated by a red stripe that is contrasted by two narrow white-edge borders :Namibia Economy Overview: The economy is heavily dependent on the mining industry to extract and process minerals for export.
And here is another extract from a Hannibal paper, of date twenty days ago: Miss Becca Blankenship died at the home of William Dickason, 408 Rock Street, at 2.30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, aged 72 years.
Let us return to the “Examination.” The first composition that was read was one entitled “Is this, then, Life?” Perhaps the reader can endure an extract from it: “In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity! Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy.
Quotes with EXTRACT (3)
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object by mere addition of consequences. Others pick up words from the streets, from their bars, from their offices and display them proudly in their poems as if they were shouting, "See what I have collected from the American language.…
From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1977–2024).