Exit vs Extract - What's the difference?
exit | extract |
A way out.
A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
The action of leaving.
Death.
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).
As nouns the difference between exit and extract
is that exit is success while extract is that which is extracted or drawn out.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.exit
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was looking for the exit and got lost .
- She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside .
- He made his exit at the opportune time .
- The untimely exit of a consummate politician .
Synonyms
* (a way out) egress, outgang, outway * (the action of leaving) egress, outgoing, departureDerived terms
* emergency exit * exit interview * exit policy * exit poll * exit program * exit strategy * exit wound * fire exitSee also
* exit stage left ----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.