What is the meaning of Extract?

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to 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

Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).

A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.

Ancestry; descent.

(Can we verify this sense?) 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; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

To withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

To pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of

To select parts of a whole

To determine (a root of a number).

extract, decoction

abridgement of a text

extract

Source: wiktionary.org