Something that is extracted or drawn out.

A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.

“I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.”

A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue

“extract of beef”

To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

“to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger”

To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

“to extract an essential oil from a plant”

To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.