Extract vs Chop - What's the difference?
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That which is extracted or drawn out.
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.
(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
Ancestry; descent.
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
* Milton
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
* Jonathan Swift
(arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
*1957 , :
*:I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
Termination, especially from employment.
(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
To sever with an axe or similar implement.
(baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
* L'Estrange
To interrupt; with in'' or ''out .
* Latimer
(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* L'Estrange
To chap or crack.
(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
* Francis Bacon
(mostly, in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
A change; a vicissitude.
An official stamp or seal.
Mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
(internet) An IRC channel operator.
* 1996 , Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (page 404)
As nouns the difference between extract and chop
is that extract is that which is extracted or drawn out while chop is garbage, trash can.As a verb extract
is to draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.extract
English
(wikipedia extract)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (that which is extracted) extraction * origin, extractionDerived terms
* yeast extractSee also
* tinctureVerb
(en verb)- to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
- The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
- to extract an essential oil from a plant
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
Synonyms
* (to take by selection) (l)chop
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) choppen, variant of (only attested in compounds). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "chop")Synonyms
* axe, pink slip, sackVerb
- chop wood
- chop an onion
- Chop off his head.
- Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.
- This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
Derived terms
* chop chop * chopper * chopping board * chop logic * chops * chopstick * choppy * karate chop * try out one's own chopsEtymology 2
Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of (chap).Verb
- this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan'' from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of ''commuting our penance.
- We go on chopping and changing our friends.
- The wind chops about.
- Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
Noun
(en noun)- East Chop'''; West '''Chop
- (Marryat)
Etymology 3
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- silk of the first chop
Derived terms
* chop dollar * chop of tea * grand chopEtymology 4
Shortening.Noun
(en noun)- IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops " — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.