Extract vs Import - What's the difference?
extract | import |
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).
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
(uncountable) Significance, importance.
To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
* 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
To be of importance to (someone or something).
* 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
* Dryden
To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
* 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
* 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
To mean, signify.
* Hooker
(archaic) To express, to imply.
As nouns the difference between extract and import
is that extract is that which is extracted or drawn out while import is import (the act of importing).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)import
English
Etymology 1
(verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia import)Synonyms
* (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weightAntonyms
* (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificanceVerb
(en verb)- How can I import files from older versions of this application?
Quotations
* (English Citations of "import")Derived terms
* importable * important * importer * importationAntonyms
* (bring in from a foreign country) exportEtymology 2
From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
- This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
- If I endure it, what imports it you?
- It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
- It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
- Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.