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The correct spelling is extracts.
How to pronounce extracts
noun
Say it like: Ext-rac-ts
The correct spelling is extracts. Something that is extracted or drawn out. For example: "I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock."
Usage Examples
“I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.”
“extract of beef”
“quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- 2.A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
- 3.A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- 4.Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- 5.A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
verb
- 1.To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- 2.To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
- 3.To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- 4.To select parts of a whole
- 5.To determine (a root of a number).
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