Verb
1. draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense;
"pull weeds""extract a bad tooth""take out a splinter""extract information from the telegram"2. get despite difficulties or obstacles;
"I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions"3. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
"We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"4. extract by the process of distillation;
"distill the essence of this compound"5. separate (a metal) from an ore
6. obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action;
"Italians express coffee rather than filter it"7. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
8. calculate the root of a number