Associations to the word «Excerpt»

Wiktionary

EXCERPT, noun. A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media
EXCERPT, verb. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

Dictionary definition

EXCERPT, noun. A passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings".
EXCERPT, verb. Take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats