I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extract a concession (= make someone give you one )
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The Indian government was able to extract concessions on the price of oil.
extract a confession (= get one with difficulty, or by using violence )
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Torture was sometimes used to extract confessions.
extract a tooth (= take it out )
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The dentist announced that she would have to extract two teeth.
extract oil formal (= to take oil out of an area )
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the difficult process of extracting the oil
yeast extract
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■ NOUN
benefit
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In extreme circumstances the customer or supplier may seek to use its strong position and extract personal benefits in return for giving its consent.
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They know the modern trick is to extract the maximum political benefit from the Games without appearing to politicize them.
data
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So far the demographic and market data contained in these records have not been fully extracted before the data are disposed of.
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This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data .
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Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it.
information
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From him Méli, who was much more interested in eating his lobster, extracted a little information .
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If they were captured by the Border Security Forces, well, it was pretty hard to extract information from a camel.
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The wine mellowed the atmosphere between them, and Blanche felt less hurried than the week before to extract information from him.
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The fact that some one can extract meaningful information from network traffic is nothing new.
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Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.
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A third feature becomes clear when we extract from the cosmogonies information which is relevant at this point.
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His fear is that he will be tortured to extract information about his brother.
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Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets.
oil
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By extracting the oil too quickly, the engineer risks losing touch with the larger deposit and having to drill again.
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The adults extract oil from the sea-creatures they eat and then regurgitate it for their chicks.
promise
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Osterlind extracted a promise from Modi that he would stay sober.
tooth
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Sampling for mammal fossils often involves the patient sieving of great quantities of sediment to extract the fossil teeth .
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Two out of three dentists said they had extracted teeth that they might have filled before the contract was introduced.
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Dentists had no financial incentive to extract teeth , he said.
water
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For operations in the region of space from Earth out to the asteroid belt, we need only extract water .
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Only instead of extracting oxygen from water , they use rock.
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The first option is to extract water from subsurface permafrost and use that water directly in a nuclear or solar steam rocket.
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As a result it is much more difficult for toads to extract water from clay.
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The second option is to extract the water from ice-free minerals that contain water of hydration.
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However, the mass of equipment required on Mars to extract and process water may be greatly increased.
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We have seen how difficult it is to extract hydrogen and water from the Moon profitably.
■ VERB
manage
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Best of them is the young Robert Merrill, who at least manages to extract some expression from Germont's part.
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Yet he managed to extract the best from everybody; on that, all agreed whether they liked him or not.
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Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it.
try
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Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets.
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One of our agents there says the Viet Cong were trying to extract too much protection money, and my husband refused.
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We have been trying to extract the figures from the Opposition.
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The monkeys were left to try to extract the food for themselves.
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Instead, they're being put in the hands of chemists trying to extract a cancer drug called Taxol.
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Once he had tried to extract so much from her, and not just details of the Tace affair.
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Dexter guessed immediately that the man was trying to extract an exclusive story on the investigation into the murder of Nicola Sharpe.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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42 tons of gold were extracted at the mine in 1987.
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I'm having my wisdom teeth extracted.
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Police questioned the prisoner for several hours, but were unable to extract any further information.
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She had to have three teeth extracted.
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The bird uses its long beak to extract nectar from the flowers.
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The court ruled that her confession had been unlawfully extracted from her.
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The nuts are crushed in order to extract the oil from them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness.
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Glasses and ceramics extracted from the regolith may be used as structural materials, paving blocks, or windows.
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So far the demographic and market data contained in these records have not been fully extracted before the data are disposed of.
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The convoy of 12 ambulance wagons and vans was frustrated throughout the day in efforts to extract injured civilians.
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The wine mellowed the atmosphere between them, and Blanche felt less hurried than the week before to extract information from him.
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To extract each gram of water requires heating 2, 500 grams of regolith up to red heat.
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To extract the blood from the stone, the tax system has been changed in two ways since last summer.
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Yet the prospects of this constituency making a major political impact and extracting liberal reforms from the regime appear poor.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
above
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The above extracts and the documents from which they have been drawn, indicate a shift of emphasis.
following
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For example, the following extract comes from a discussion of rusting with a group of 5 and 6 year olds.
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The basis for the proposed introduction of a new estate and its nature are made clear in the following extracts .
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The following interview extract vividly illustrates the perceived difference, in the eyes of one senior manager in an acute unit.
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By way of comparison, the following extract highlights the use of reflexive critical interpretation in the analysis of the data.
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The following are extracts: I welcome you all here today.
nuclear
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To further substantiate these results, we pre-incubated the nuclear extract with a 500 molar excess of wild type or mutated oligonucleotides.
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Jun-Core is phosphorylated by a DNA-dependent kinase in HeLa nuclear extracts .
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Treatment of nuclear extracts with phosphatase results in a comparable increase in the mobility of the 43 kDa polypeptide and ATF1.
short
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We will now score a few short extracts chosen to illustrate various points of treatment.
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Here are three short extracts from Duncan Green's book Silent Revolution.
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There have even been short extracts from late-night adjournment debates.
■ NOUN
plant
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And there are still more plant extracts in the superb Purifying Plant Mask!
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Each preparation is a blend of fruit, flower, herb or plant extracts .
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Some have tried to appear natural by mixing these chemicals with plant extracts .
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So Clarins created Eye Contour Gel with plant extracts from camomile, cornflower, marigold, soothing mallow and astringent witch-hazel.
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The perm lotion is made with seven natural plant extracts and the neutraliser contains fragrant, conditioning oil of mint.
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Lesson 3 uses the example of sample preparation from a plant extract .
vanilla
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Stir in the eggs, vanilla extract , almond essence and butter until they are evenly combined.
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This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract , and evaporated milk.
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In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla extract and salt until well blended.
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Add vanilla extract and beat until mixture thickens and loses its gloss.
yeast
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So much yeast is produced during fermentation that large amounts are sold to companies such as Marmite to be turned into yeast extract .
■ VERB
read
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Be Imaginative Read the extract below.
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To symbolise their commitment to work together in the future, they will read together an extract from the Swanwick Declaration.
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The demonstration's organisers read out extracts from recordings that had allegedly been made in the president's office.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the following extract , Jones presents the arguments in favour of nuclear power.
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The book contains previously unpublished material, including extracts from diaries, letters and taped interviews.
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vanilla extract
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he can't discuss what the extracts reveal.
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I think your subconscious decided to provide you with a sort of extract from the main story.
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The controversy has led other law enforcement agencies to take another look at the chile pepper extract .
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The wines of Bergères-les-Vertus are firm and fruity, with good extract and fine balance and well deserving of greater recognition.
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There's plenty of choice as cosmetics made with natural extracts abound.
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There are two other points in this extract , sentences 4 and 10, where adverbial clauses occur in sentence-initial position.
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This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract , and evaporated milk.