Extract vs Collect - 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).
To gather together; amass.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To get; particularly, get from someone.
To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare (gather), (get).)
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 292-3:
* John Locke
To collect payments.
To come together in a group or mass.
To collect objects as a hobby.
To infer; to conclude.
* South
To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
With payment due from the recipient.
(en noun) (sometimes capitalized)
(Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
In transitive terms the difference between extract and collect
is that extract is to take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book while collect is to infer; to conclude.As an adjective collect is
to be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.As an adverb collect is
with payment due from the recipient.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)collect
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) collecten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- the riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.
- which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected .
- Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
Adjective
(-)- It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
Adverb
(-)- I had to call collect .
Derived terms
* call collect * collect one's thoughts * collect one's wits * collect up * collectible * collection * collector * recollect, recollectionEtymology 2
(Wikipedia) From (etyl) .Noun
- He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.