excerpt

From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡzɜ(ɹ)(p)t/, /ɛɡˈzɜ(ɹ)(p)t/, /ɛkˈsɜ(ɹ)(p)t/, /ˈɛksɜ(ɹ)(p)t/

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excerpt (plural excerpts)

1. A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)

1. (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:

     out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars

• “excerpt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “excerpt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

excerpt n (singular definite excerptet, plural indefinite excerpter)

1. excerpt

   Synonym: uddrag

• “excerpt” in Den Danske Ordbog