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extraire — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • draw verb To create a picture using a pencil, pen, or similar tool.
  • excerpt noun A short passage taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music and presented on its own.
  • extract verb To pull or draw something out, often with effort or force.
  • mine pron Belonging to me; the possessive form of "I" used on its own, without a following noun.

Senses

extraire is used for these senses in English:

  • draw (transitive) To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action. [from 12th c.]
  • draw out To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.
  • excerpt (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
  • extract (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
  • mine To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

draw — full definition

  1. verb To create a picture using a pencil, pen, or similar tool.
  2. verb To pull something toward oneself or in a particular direction.
  3. verb To attract attention, interest, or a crowd.
  4. verb To take money out of an account, or to receive a wage or benefit.
  5. verb To end a game or contest with neither side winning.

excerpt — full definition

  1. noun A short passage taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music and presented on its own.
  2. verb To take a passage out of a longer work in order to quote or publish it separately.

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