Excerpt

Definitions: Excerpt

Excerpt

Noun

1. A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings".

Verb

1. Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Information

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Excerpt

Compendium

Noun: compend, compendium; abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.

Crosswords: Excerpt

Dutch (abridgement, abstract, resumé, summary, summery).

Books

• An excerpt from the Handmaid to the arts (reference)

• In My Hands Excerpt Brochure (reference)

• Music Sources a Collection Excerpt and Composition Movement (reference)

• Our 30 Year Old Friendship and Legacy: Letters from Louise Bogan: Comments by Mildred Weston and an Excerpt from Her Interview With Leon Arksey, cou (reference)

• Prostitution (an excerpt from the French work -the first 32 pp.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

This excerpt from the journal of a man with Alzheimer's disease offers a glimpse of what it's like to be one of the 4,000,000 people in the United States who have this progressive, degenerative brain disorder. (references)

Civil Liberties

Swaziland

On June 22, the Government implemented Decree No. 2, which contained a provision allowing the Minister for Information and Public Service to proscribe any magazine, book, newspaper, or excerpt without furnishing any reasons or jurisdictional facts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

ekstrakt (clip, distillate, extract, infusion), nxjerr fragment, fragment (extract, fragment, passage, piece), copë (chunk, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, piece, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقتطفات (anthology, selections), ‏المقتبس, ‏إقتطف (extract), ‏إقتبس (borrow, extract, quote). (various references)

Bulgarian 

цитирам (cite, quote), откъслек (excerption, fragment, piece), откъс (excerption, extract, fragment, passage, segment, snatch), правя извадка, изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), извадка (excerption, extract), извлечение (abstract, precis), извличам (derive, distil, drag out, draw, educe, elicit, exhaust, extract, milk, recover). (various references)

Chinese 

节录. (various references)

Czech

excerpovat (abstract), výpisek, výòatek. (various references)

Danish

udsnit (lamina, quotation), citat (quotation). (various references)

Dutch

ontlening (quotation), citaat (citation, quotation), aanhaling (caress, chuck, citation, quotation, stroke). (various references)

Farsi 

قطعه ء منتخب , گلچین کردن (Cull, Pluck, Tab), برگزیدن وجداکردن . (various references)

Finnish

ote (extract, grasp, grip, hold). (various references)

French

extrait (excerption, extract, extracted, extraction), extraire (express, extract), emprunt, citation. (various references)

German

auszug (abridgment, abstract, departure, elixir, epitome, exodus, extension, extract, move, procession, provision for retired farmers, pull, pullout, recession, retirement, settlement on retirement, summary, syllabus, walkout), exzerpt (extract). (various references)

Greek 

απόσπασμα (abstract, detachment, detail, extract, fragment, passage, quotation, task force). (various references)

Hungarian

szemelvény (excerption, extract), kivonat (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, digest, educt, epitome, essence, extract, extraction). (various references)

Indonesian

petikan (playing, plucking (of guitar), quotation), kutipan (citation, extract, quotation, quote). (various references)

Italian

estratto (compendium, condensation, digest, extract, offprint, overview, perfume, reprint, scent, separate, separate reprint), riproduzione (breeding, copy, play back, playback, play-back, printing, propagation, quotation, replay, replica, replication, reproduction), passo (col, footprint, footstep, funnel, gait, lead, lease-shed, neck, pace, pass, passage, pitch, rate, shed, spacing, step, stride, transmittal step, tread, walk, wheel base, wheel spacing, wheel track, wheelbase), citazione (adduction, cit, citation, complaint, extract, mention, monition, quotation, quote, subpoena, summons, writ of summons). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抜粋 (extract, selection), 抄本 (book of selections). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅしょう (admirable, advocacy, beginning of a book, captain, commander-in-chief, excerption, laudable, manual copying, palm, palmar, Prime Minister, promotion), しょうほ�" (book of registration, book of selections, folded book, text of a play), べつずり (offprint, printed separately), ばっすい (extract, selection). (various references)

Korean 

발췌 (Excerpting). (various references)

Manx

meer ass. (various references)

Norwegian

utdrag (abridgement, extract). (various references)

Pig Latin

excerptay

Portuguese

extrato (abstract, distillation, estreat, excerption, extract, extractive, fragmentary, scrap, tincture), excerto (excerption, fragment), excepcional (exceptional, excessive charges, extra, extraordinary, king size, over, rare, remarkable, singular, special, superior, uncommon, unusual), resumo (abridgement, abridgment, abstract, brief, compendium, condensation, digest, docket, epitomize, extract, playbill, precis, resume, summary, summery, syllabus, synopsis), citação (adduction, arraignment, citation, commonplace, cross-reference, excess, intimation, mention, monition, notifications, proceedings, process, prosecution, quotation, quote, reference, subpoena, summons, writ, writ of summons). (various references)

Romanian

extras (abstract, certificate, extract, off print, reprint), pasaj (aisle, arcade, extract, fragment, gangway, gateway, pass, passage, passage way, thoroughfare, tunnel), fragment (chip, extract, fragment, ort, passage, piece, portion, scrap, sketch, snatch). (various references)

Russian 

отрывок (passage). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

praviti izvode, izvod (derivative, extract, precis). (various references)

Spanish

extracto (abstract, docket, excerption, extract, extractive, extraneous substance, infusion, perfume, scent), excerta, excerpta, plagio (plagiarism, Plagiary, quotation), copia (abundance, copy, copying, duplicate, duplicating, n., negative, print, proof, quotation, replica, richness, transcript, transcription), conocido (acquaint, acquaintance, arrant, famed, familiar, famous, Ken, known, learned, met, noted, recognized, well-known). (various references)

Swedish

utdrag (draw, extract, extraction, load, output, pull). (various references)

Thai

ตั�"ตอนมา (ข้อความ, ย่อหน้า เป็นต้น), ข้อความที่ตั�"ตอนมา. (various references)

Turkish

seçme parça almak, seçme parça (extract), alıntı yapmak (adapt, borrow, cite, quote), alıntı (adaptation, borrowing, citation, extract, quotation, take), özel baskı (special, special edition). (various references)

Ukranian 

уривок (passage, snatch), витяг (abstract, excerption). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phần trích. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "excerpt": excerpted, excerpter, excerpters, excerpting, excerption, excerptions, excerptor, excerptors, excerpts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Excerpt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ecerit, escerpt, excempt, exceprt, excer, Excerpta, excerptt, excert, excrept, excret, exerp, exerpt, Exerptum, exterp, exzerpt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: except, expect, expert, recept.

-2 letters: creep, crepe, crept, erect, exert, peter, terce.

-3 letters: cepe, cere, cete, exec, peer, pert, pree, prex, rete, tree.

-4 letters: cee, cep, ere, pec, pee, per, pet, rec, ree, rep, ret, rex, tee.

-5 letters: er, et, ex, pe, re.

+1 letter: excerpts.

+2 letters: excerpted, excerpter, excerptor.

+3 letters: ciphertext, excerpters, excerpting, excerption, excerptors.

+4 letters: ciphertexts, excerptions, expectorant, expectorate.

+5 letters: executorship, expectorants, expectorated, expectorates, exteroceptor, extrahepatic, hyperexcited, overexplicit, postexercise, preexistence.

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