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(verb) calculate the root of a number |
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Related Words: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon |
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(verb) draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; also used in an abstract sense: "extract information from the telegram" |
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Synonyms: draw out, pull out, take out |
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Related Words: demodulate, remove, squeeze out, take, take away, wring out |
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(verb) separate (a metal) from an ore |
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Related Words: separate |
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(verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles: "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions" |
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Related Words: obtain |
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(verb) extract by distillation, make by distillation |
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Synonyms: distil, distill |
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Related Words: create, make |
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(verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy |
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Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
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Related Words: choose, pick out, select, take |
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(noun) a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented exerpts from William James' philosophical writings" |
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Synonyms: excerpt, selection |
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Related Words: analecta, analects, clipping, cutting, newspaper clipping, passage, press clipping, press cutting, quotation, quote |
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(noun) a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) |
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Synonyms: infusion |
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Related Words: Bovril, beef tea, black catechu, catechu, solution |
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(verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action, as of coffee |
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Synonyms: express, press out |
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Related Words: acquire, get |
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(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) |
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Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
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Related Words: construe, interpret |
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