extract

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”

get despite difficulties or obstacles

• “I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions”

deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• “We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant”

extract by the process of distillation

• “distill the essence of this compound”

separate (a metal) from an ore

obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• “Italians express coffee rather than filter it”

take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

calculate the root of a number

a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

a passage selected from a larger work

• “he presented excerpts from William James”