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excerpt
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excerpt \Ex*cerpt"\ ([e^]k*s[~e]rpt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excerpted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Excerpting .] [From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp .] To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. --Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (implied in excerpte ), from Latin excerptus , past participle of excerpere "pluck out, pick out, extract," figuratively "choose, select, gather," also "to leave out, omit," from ex- "out" (see ex- ) + carpere "pluck, gather," from PIE *kerp- ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media vb. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
Usage examples of excerpt.
The excerpt that follows is an interesting example of how the lack of ftf cues can make it difficult to tell whether someone is intending humor or irony, and when they are being honest or sly.
The excerpt also illustrates how people play with the ambiguity of identity in chat environments.
In the following excerpt, both superficial and very personal conversations are occurring simultaneously.
In the excerpt below, Alloy skillfully maneuvers his private conversations with Ocean and Cowboy, while also carrying on a public exchange with Mr.
In the excerpt below, the ideas are complex and the interactions subtle.
This book contains an excerpt from the hardcover edition of The Third Twin by Ken Follett.
This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the hardcover edition.
In this excerpt, his physically departed guru, Sri Yukteswar, returns in his astral form, from beyond the grave, to bring inspiration to his beloved disciple.
I sit backstage at Harvard, organizing these excerpts as I await my turn at the dais.
As I look over the following excerpts from two recent short stories, I see that what unites them is a meticulous degree of attention to character as well as an awareness of AIDS so present elsewhere that it does not necessarily need to be explained in the sex scene.
These are excerpts from actual business proposals, presented to guys with suits on, in The Real World.
I did for literary and nonliterary reasons: quality, length, clarity, and their ability to make sense in excerpted form with a minimum of explanation.
Amsel, and she alone, whom he is permitted at this point to excerpt from the village idyl, for she is the mother of our plumpish Eduard Amsel, who in the course of the first to fourth morning shifts fished beanpoles, roofing laths, and heavy waterlogged rags from the rising Vistula and is now, like Walter Matern, about to be baptized.
He always had a number of these little poems written down in a small note-book of black leather which he carried with him, and in which, at this time, with a precise and meticulous hand, he noted down his rarest thoughts, excerpts from books he had been reading, and these brief poems.
What intrigued Emily most were the copious excerpts from a diary Phyllis Gates had kept during those years.