excerpt
English
Etymology
From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛɡzɜ(ɹ)pt/, /ɛɡˈzɜ(ɹ)pt/, /ɛkˈsɜ(ɹ)pt/, /ˈɛksɜɹpt/
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Noun
excerpt (plural excerpts)
Translations
a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work
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Verb
excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)
- (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
- Fuller
- out of which we have excerpted the following particulars
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Translations
Further reading
- excerpt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- excerpt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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