Extract
An extract is a substance made by extracting a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol or water. Extracts may be sold as tinctures, absolutes or in powder form.
The aromatic principles of many spices, nuts, herbs, fruits, etc., and some flowers, are marketed as extracts, among the best known of true extracts being almond, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, lemon, nutmeg, orange, peppermint, pistachio, rose, spearmint, vanilla, violet, rum, and wintergreen.
Raffinate
In chemical separation terminology, the raffinate (from French raffiner, to refine) is a product which has had a component or components removed. The product having the removed materials is referred to as the extract. For example, in solvent extraction, the raffinate is the liquid stream which remains after solutes from the original liquid are removed through contact with an immiscible liquid. In metallurgy, raffinating refers to a process in which impurities are removed from liquid material.In pressure swing adsorption the raffinate refers to the gas which is not adsorbed during the high pressure stage. The species which is desorbed from the adsorbent at low pressure may be called the “extract” product.
Extract (noun)
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Extract (noun)
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
“I used an extract of Hemingway’s book to demonstrate culture shock.”
Extract (noun)
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
“extract of beef”
“extract of dandelion”
Extract (noun)
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
“quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.”
Extract (noun)
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
Extract (noun)
A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
Extract (noun)
Ancestry; descent.
Extract (noun)
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Extract (verb)
To draw out; 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”
Extract (verb)
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
“to extract an essential oil from a plant”
Extract (verb)
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Extract (verb)
To select parts of a whole
“We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.”
Extract (verb)
To determine (a root of a number).
“Please extract the cube root of 27.”
Raffinate (noun)
A solution from which some material has been removed by extraction with an immiscible liquid.
Extract (verb)
remove or take out, especially by effort or force
“the fossils are extracted from the chalk”
Extract (verb)
obtain (a substance or resource) from something by a special method
“lead was extracted from the copper”
Extract (verb)
obtain (something such as money or information) from someone unwilling to give it
“I won’t let you go without trying to extract a promise from you”
Extract (verb)
select (a passage from a text, film, or piece of music) for quotation, performance, or reproduction
“the table is extracted from the report”
Extract (verb)
derive (an idea) from a body of information
“there are few attempts to extract generalities about the nature of the disciplines”
Extract (verb)
calculate (a root of a number)
“early computers had an instruction to extract a square root”
Extract (noun)
a short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music
“an extract from a historical film”
Extract (noun)
a preparation containing the active ingredient of a substance in concentrated form
“natural plant extracts”
“a shampoo with extract of camomile”
Raffinate (noun)
a liquid from which impurities have been removed by solvent extraction.