English noun: excerpt | |||
1. | excerpt (communication) a passage selected from a larger work | ||
Samples | He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings. | ||
Synonyms | excerption, extract, selection | ||
Broader (hypernym) | passage | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | analecta, analects, chrestomathy, citation, clipping, cut, cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, quotation, quote, track | ||
Instance hyponym | Haftarah, Haftorah, Haphtarah, Haphtorah | ||
English verb: excerpt | |||
1. | excerpt (cognition) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | ||
Synonyms | extract, take out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | choose, pick out, select, take | ||