Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pick out; excerpt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To pick out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
pick out .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An untitled excerp was found that is beleived to have been recorded by folk singing legend, Bob Dillon.
100 Word Stories 2008
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Mare Kandre: "The Woman and Dr Dreuf" - two excerp...
Archive 2009-04-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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And for the record, it was a link to an article, with an excerp.
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I just excerp here and there, to convince you, if after this you need it, that Cotton was a first rate.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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* Provided with excerp image, make your blog looks elegant with cool images
Digital Point Forums silverf0x 2010
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* Provided with excerp image, make your blog looks elegant with cool images
Digital Point Forums silverf0x 2010
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The Times excerp was about John's Podesta's prognostications as promulgated in the book … …. not Obama's inaugural speech.
WordPress.com News 2008
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Found this excerp in a dictionary …” crisp: (esp. of food) firm and fresh; not soft or wilted: a crisp leaf of lettuce.”
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A rocket from nasa, excerp: (Metal has no DNA; machines have no genes.
Autoblog Green 2009
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To add veracity here is Wikipedia's contribution on Execution in China - a relevant excerp: meta name = "ProgId" content = "Word.
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