Verb

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(extract)

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)

, title= 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.}}

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

(head)

(fetch)

Verb

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

* Bible, 1 (w) xvii. 11, 12

He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)

When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

* (1800-1859)

Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

* {{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).}}

(label) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

to fetch headway or sternway

* (George Chapman) (1559-1634)

Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.

(label) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)

* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),

The hurt n***** moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

* (William Barnes) (1801-1886)

They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.

(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to .

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Fetching men again when they swoon.

To reduce; to throw.

* (Robert South) (1634–1716)

The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I'll fetch a turn about the garden.

* (Robert South) (1634–1716)

He fetches his blow quick and sure.

To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.