To Pull Something Out
To Extract
transitive verb, godan verb
You know 抜く means "to pull something out" and 出す means "to remove," so this word also means to pull something out, or to extract.
More specifically, 抜き出す means to pull something out from a larger set of something. For example, this could mean taking a single bill out of your wallet, or selecting specific data from a large dataset.
The readings are from 抜く and 出す, combined together. Know those two and you'll be able to read this word as well.
エクセルで日付の月の部分だけを抜き出す関数ってありますか？
Is there a function in Excel to extract only the month part of a date?
問4： 友子が泣き出した理由は何ですか。文中の言葉を17字で抜き出して答えなさい。
Q4: What is the reason why Tomoko started crying? Answer the question by selecting seventeen characters from the text.
いらなくなったパソコンとかスマホってどうしてる？リサイクルショップとかに持っていったら、悪意ある第三者にデータを抜き出される危険性があるよね？
What do you do with your old computer or smartphone? If you take them to a recycling shop, there is a risk that a malicious third party could extract the data, right?
彼は背広から銃をそっと抜き出した。
He secretly started to pull a gun out of his business suit.