- [countable] extract (from something) a short passage from a book, piece of music, etc. that gives you an idea of what the whole thing is like
- The following extract is taken from her new novel.
Extra Examples- He read out a brief extract from his book.
- The extract is taken from a long essay.
- The disc also includes an extract from one of his earlier operas.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brief
- short
- long
- …
- read
- publish
- be from
- be taken from
- extract from
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- [uncountable, countable] a substance that has been obtained from something else using a particular process
- yeast extract
- face cream containing natural plant extracts
- (North American English) vanilla extract
- extract of apricot
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- natural
- herbal
- green tea
- …
- extract of
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin extract- ‘drawn out’, from the verb extrahere, from ex- ‘out’ + trahere ‘draw’.
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