Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A passage or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film.
- v. To select or use (a passage or segment from a longer work).
- v. To select or use material from (a longer work).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To take or cull out (a passage in a written or printed work); select; cite; extract.
- n. An extract from a written or printed work: as, excerpts from the records.
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
- v. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
- n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a passage selected from a larger work
- v. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Etymologies
- From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere ("to pick out"), from ex ("out") + carpere ("to pick, pluck") (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English, excerpted, from Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere, to pick out : ex-, ex- + carpere, to pluck; see kerp- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“* % excerpt% - A text-only excerpt of the body content.”
“I love ancient myths … history was one of my favorite classes and I looked it up and heres in excerpt from the wiki article:”
“The focus of this excerpt is the lack of freedom of blacks (non-whites in general, actually, as it also included Chinese, Filipinos, native Americans, people from the Indian subcontinent and others).”
“BM: This excerpt is the opening page or two of the book.”
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Billy Mernit, Part 1
“Bobbi Rightmyer presents The Baby Bones posted at My Muse and Me, saying, “This excerpt is approximately 900 words.””
Creative Carnival – November 8th NaNoWriMo Edition « Write Anything
“To celebrate the milestone, I've posted a 2,000-word excerpt from the opening of the book:”
“One clarification – the Truscott quoted in your excerpt is actually one of the few members of the club who is PRO-Hemings descendants.”
“This excerpt is a good example of Hemans's style, which is either "false stilted and trashy" or "sweet and elegant," depending on your point of view.”
“Editor's note: Have a look at this excerpt from the recently revised NASA Organization description.”
“I wrote about it over at Selenian Boondocks, and one excerpt is as follows:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘excerpt’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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writing first chapter
revolve, vital, necessity, depict, archery, indegenous, native, lacrosse, similarly, recess, composition, indicator and 91 more...
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The Ex-acting Xray
Out of this world via the "X-express".
exorbitant, exuberant, extant, exultant, expectorate, exhilarate, excommunicate, exacting, extenuate, exculpate, extirpate, expostulate and 110 more...
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special
serendipper, rhapsody, inundate, fiefdom, entrench, excerpt, rambunctious, disparity, bleat, Deo volente
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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Rilakkuma's list
The Velvetine Ruffians
gamine, waif, ruffian, villain, rake, libertine, velvetine, luminary, nom de plume, street urchin, epicurean, eventide and 256 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for excerpt.
onursaka the passages are excerpts from longer works Jan 30, 2012