Extract vs. Infuse: What's the Difference?
Extract and Infuse Definitions
Extract
To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort
Extract a wisdom tooth.
Used tweezers to extract the splinter.
Infuse
To put into or introduce as if by pouring
Infused new vigor into the movement.
Extract
To obtain despite resistance
Extract a promise.
Infuse
To fill or cause to be filled with something
Infused them with a love of the land.
Extract
To obtain from a substance by chemical or mechanical action, as by pressure, distillation, or evaporation.
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Infuse
To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles.
Extract
To remove for separate consideration or publication; excerpt.
Infuse
To flavor or scent (a liquid) by steeping ingredients in it
"He would infuse ... vegetable oil with the pungent taste of scallions" (Nina Simonds).
Extract
To derive or obtain (information, for example) from a source.
Infuse
To introduce (a solution) into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes.
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Extract
To deduce (a principle or doctrine); construe (a meaning).
Infuse
(transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
Extract
To derive (pleasure or comfort) from an experience.
Infuse
(transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
Extract
(Mathematics) To determine or calculate (the root of a number).
Infuse
(transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
Extract
A passage from a literary work; an excerpt.
Infuse
(transitive) To instill as a quality.
Extract
A concentrated preparation of the essential constituents of a food, flavoring, or other substance; a concentrate
Maple extract.
Infuse
(intransitive) To undergo infusion.
Let it infuse for five minutes.
Extract
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Infuse
(transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
Extract
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.
Infuse
To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
Extract
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
Vanilla extract
Infuse
To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse.
Extract
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.
Infuse
To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.
Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son which himself never possessed?
Extract
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
Infuse
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; - followed by with.
Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
Infusing him with self and vain conceit.
Extract
(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
Infuse
To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.
One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
Extract
Ancestry; descent.
Infuse
To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.
Extract
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Infuse
Infusion.
Extract
(transitive) 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
Infuse
Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions;
Inculcate values into the young generation
Extract
(transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
To extract an essential oil from a plant
Infuse
Fill, as with a certain quality;
The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide
Extract
(transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Infuse
Undergo the process of infusion;
The mint tea is infusing
Extract
(transitive) To select parts of a whole
We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
Infuse
Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse;
Steep the blossoms in oil
Steep the fruit in alcohol
Extract
To determine (a root of a number).
Please extract the cube root of 27.
Infuse
Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes;
Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals
Extract
To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
The beeSits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Extract
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
Extract
That which is extracted or drawn out.
Extract
A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
Extract
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
Extract
A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; - called also the extractive principle.
Extract
Extraction; descent.
Extract
A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Extract
A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
Extract
A passage selected from a larger work;
He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
Extract
Draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense;
Pull weeds
Extract a bad tooth
Take out a splinter
Extract information from the telegram
Extract
Get despite difficulties or obstacles;
I extracted a promise from the Dean for two ne positions
Extract
Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant
Extract
Extract by the process of distillation;
Distill the essence of this compound
Extract
Separate (a metal) from an ore
Extract
Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action;
Italians express coffee rather than filter it
Extract
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Extract
Calculate the root of a number
