extract vs garner

extract

noun
  • Something that is extracted or drawn out. 

  • A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue 

  • Ancestry; descent. 

  • A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution. 

  • Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained 

  • A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract). 

  • A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation. 

verb
  • To select parts of a whole 

  • To determine (a root of a number). 

  • To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. 

  • To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc. 

  • To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb). 

garner

noun
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. 

  • A granary; a store of grain. 

verb
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. 

  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. 

  • To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. 

  • To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact 

How often have the words extract and garner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )