Notation and Extract

notation

A technical system of symbols used to represent special things.
- synonyms: notational system
A comment or instruction (usually added. )
- usage: "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
- synonyms: note, annotation
The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters. .

(n.) Literal or etymological signification.
(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
(n.) Literal or etymological signification.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

extract

A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water.
- synonyms: infusion
A passage selected from a larger work.
- usage: "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
- synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection

Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.
- usage: "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- synonyms: pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw out
Get despite difficulties or obstacles.
- usage: "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning. )
- usage: "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- synonyms: educe, evoke, elicit, draw out
Extract by the process of distillation.
- usage: "distill the essence of this compound"
- synonyms: distill, distil
Separate (a metal) from an ore.
Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action.
- usage: "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
- synonyms: press out, express
Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.
- synonyms: excerpt, take out
Calculate the root of a number. .

(v.t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
(v.t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
(n.) A decoction, solution or infusion made by drawing 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.
(n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc. or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
(n.) Extraction; descent.
(v.t.) 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.
(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.
(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary