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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 | ||
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