Verb

(en verb)

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger

* Milton

The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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 withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

to extract an essential oil from a plant

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

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To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

* Jonathan Swift

I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.

(arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).

Verb

(receiv)

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Our hearts receive your warnings.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:The idea of solidity we receive by our touch.

*(Bible), viii.64:

*:The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings.

*, chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

To take possession of.

To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

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*(Bible), (w) xxviii.2:

*:They kindled a fire, and received us every one.

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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

To suffer from (an injury).

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To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

*(Bible), (w) vii.4:

*:Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots.

(lb) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

(lb) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

# To be in a position to hit back a service.

#(lb) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

To accept into the mind; to understand.

*, I.57:

*:I cannot receive that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.