Crossword clues for excerpt
excerpt
- Piece selected from a film
- Passage selected from a book
- Passage from book?
- Passage (from writing)
- It's only a tiny bit of work
- Selected passage
- Sound bite, e.g
- Selection from a book
- Reader's Digest offering
- Quote in a book review
- Pull quote, e.g
- Passage from a book
- Extracted passage from text
- Book jacket bit, often
- Book extract
- Book bit
- Bit out of a book
- Sound bite, e.g.
- Sample passage
- A passage selected from a larger work
- Quote from
- Except having Republican passage from a book
- Extract from a larger work
- Without reading, perhaps, save newspaper clipping
- Short piece taken from a film, text, etc
- Short piece expert distributed round start of class
- Short passage
- Short passage only about a king
- Short extract
- Selected passage from larger work
- Selected comments maybe from drinker finally accepted by bar
- Runs into bar in trailer?
- Reading, but covering writing or arithmetic?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Excerpt \Ex"cerpt\ ([e^]k"s[~e]rpt; 277), n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record. [1913 Webster] ||
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- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (see harvest (n.)). Related: Excerpted; excerpting.\n
1630s, from Latin excerptum "an extract, selection," noun use of neuter past participle of excerpere "to extract" (see excerpt (v.)). Related: excerpts.
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.
WordNet
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.