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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXCERPT', v.t. [L. excerpo; ex and carpo, to take.] To select. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings" [syn: excerpt, excerption, extract, selection] v
1: take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy [syn: excerpt, extract, take out]

Merriam Webster's

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) • excerptor or excerpter noun • excerption noun II. noun Date: 1627 a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied ; extract

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a short extract from a book, film, piece of music, etc. --v.tr. (also absol.) 1 take an excerpt or excerpts from (a book etc.). 2 take (an extract) from a book etc. Derivatives: excerptible adj. excerption n. Etymology: L excerpere excerpt- (as EX-(1), carpere pluck)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Excerpt Ex*cerpt", 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Excerpt Ex*cerp"t (277), n. An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(excerpts) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. An excerpt is a short piece of writing or music which is taken from a larger piece. ...an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. = extract N-COUNT: oft N from n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Extract, quotation, citation, selected passage. II. v. a. Extract, select, cite, quote, take.

Moby Thesaurus

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, single out, take, winnow