extricate vs extract
Definitions
verb
- release from entanglement of difficulty
Examples
A client who uses aggressive tactics against you to get their way is a real liability, and you should extricate yourself from the situation as quickly as possible.
He had managed to extricate himself from most of his official duties.
The car was a wreck of twisted metal, but they could see the driver, still inside, trying to extricate himself from his situation.
Definitions
verb
- get despite difficulties or obstacles
- calculate the root of a number
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
noun
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
- a passage selected from a larger work
Examples
A vacuum absorbing device absorbs the smooth plane of the extracting device and the socket connector is positioned on the circuit board, thus achieving the goal of automatic assembling.
In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone.
Tamarind, besides being a good source of B vitamins, calcium and potassium, is being studied as a possible cholesterol-lowering agent, and an extract from its seeds is made into eye drops to treat dry eye syndrome.
