excerpt

  • 21excerpt — I. transitive verb Etymology: Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere, from ex + carpere to gather, pluck more at harvest Date: 15th century 1. to select (a passage) for quoting ; extract 2. to take or publish extracts from (as a book) •… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 22excerpt — excerpter, excerptor, n. excerptible, adj. excerption, n. n. /ek serrpt/; v. /ik serrpt , ek serrpt/, n. 1. a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract. v.t. 2. to take or select (a passage) from a… …

    Universalium

  • 23excerpt — 1. noun a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media 2. verb To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work …

    Wiktionary

  • 24Excerpt — Отрывок, выдержка; (отдельный) оттиск …

    Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

  • 25excerpt — Synonyms and related words: choose out, citation, cite, cull, cull out, decide between, excerption, extract, extraction, glean, handpick, make a selection, passage, pick, pick out, quotation, quote, select, selected passage, selection, sift,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26excerpt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. extract, quote, citation, selection; sentence, verse, section, passage. See part. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. selection, extract, passage, citation; see quotation 1 . v. Syn. quote, select, extract; see… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 27excerpt — ex|cerpt [ ek,sɜrpt ] noun count a short piece of writing or music that is taken from a longer piece …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 28excerpt — see SCARCE …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 29excerpt — ex·cerpt || ek sɜːpt n. extract, passage selected from a book or text, quotation v. take out a passage or phrase (from a book, text, etc.) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 30excerpt — I. n. Extract, quotation, citation, selected passage. II. v. a. Extract, select, cite, quote, take …

    New dictionary of synonyms